Michele Tremblay for New Hampshire State Senate!

July 2010 - Michele Tremblay is running for state senate in New Hampshire's District 7. Yellahoose helped out by quickly building a site for her fledgling campaign, including value-added features like a donation and online payment feature and a newsletter sign-up function.



www.TremblayforSenate.com is hosted by Packawhallop, a web products and hosting hosting business co-owned by Yellahoose's owner, James Cradock.

Links:

Tremblay for Senate
http://www.tremblayforsenate.com

Paddock & Company relaunch and upgrade Sacred Bear Ecommerce site

July 2010 - Paddock & Company relaunched Sacred Bear's online store, which showcases Navajo and Zuni jewelry. Yellahoose managed the migration of data from osCommerce to BigCommerce and worked with Merchant Corner, BigCommerce specialists, to facilitate the upgrade.

Thanks to Larry, Glenn and Eamon!

Links:

Sacred Bear
http://www.sacredbear.com

Paddock & Company
http://www.paddock.net

Merchant Corner
http://www.merchantcorner.com/

BigCommerce
http://www.bigcommerce.com/

BAD Studio launches Illuminations Contact e-commerce site

June 2010 - Illuminations Contract, of Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama, re-launched its web site and launched its wholly new e-commerce solution, designed and project managed by BADSTUDIO of Atlanta with assistance from Yellahoose of Portland, Maine.



Yellahoose took the great graphic design concepts produced by BADSTUDIO and implemented them in Pinnacle Cart, a hosted PHP shopping cart and online store solutions. As part of these major web site updates Illuminations' own public web site was moved to Pinnacle's data center too, ensuring 24/7/365 web site availability.



Illuminations' e-commerce site features a full catalog, B2B solutions, details, invoicing, online payment processing through Authorize.net, and drop ship functionality.



Thanks to Lyn and everyone at Illuminations!

Links:

Illuminations Contract
http://www.illumco.com/

BADSTUDIO
http://www.badstudio.com/

Pinnacle Cart
http://www.pinnaclecart.com/

State of the Environment Report is published

June 2010 - Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment launched their State of the Environment Report this month. Yellahoose provided web design, support and IT management services.



The report represents a cumulative effort by Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) and Gulf of Maine Councilors from different agencies and stakeholder organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The site is built to evolve over the coming years, with new papers and reports added as they become available.



Thanks to everyone involved with this project, up to this launch and beyond, including Jay, Jazmine, Peter, Theresa and Lorraine!

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment and
State of the Environment Report
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/state-of-the-gulf/

Maine Coastal Program launches online version of Maine Coastline newsletter

May 2010 - The Maine Coastal Program launched the new edition of its Maine Coastline newsletter. This edition marks the first step in a phased approach to move the Coastal Program's newsletter to the web. This edition's theme is on the significant aesthetic qualities of the Maine coast.



Plans are being made to evaluate and implement other web features in upcoming editions and updates, including social media and outreach tools, like Twitter, Facebook, places for user input and photo galleries... and more. Stay tuned!



Content for this new online edition of Maine Coastline was developed by Nancy Griffin at Word Association. Graphic design was provided by Gordon Holman of Slickfish Studios. Theresa Torrent-Ellis, Kathleen Leyden and others at Maine State Planning office provided great feedback on the new edition. (Thanks!) All other technical assistance, planning and work was done by James Cradock of Yellahoose.

Links:

Maine Coastline & Maine Coastal Program
http://www.maine.gov/spo/coastal/
http://www.maine.gov/spo/coastal/coastline/

Creative Portland Corp launches LiveWorkPortland built by LEDA, LuDesign, Slickfish Studios and Yellahoose

May 2010 - Creative Portland Corporation launched LiveWorkPortland, a web resource showcasing Portland, Maine's vibrant creative professional community.



LiveWorkPortland presents Portland residents and those thinking about relocating to the area a picture of the city, and of the region, as a great place to live and work and do business. The site showcases great creative professionals calling Portland "home", with biographical sketches and multimedia slideshows. It hilights the city's culture, economy and other amenities adding to Portland's quality of life.



The web site was designed and built and content was developed by a team of professionals from the area: LEDA, LuDesign, Slickfish Studios, Wing and Ko. and Yellahoose. Yellahoose's role:

• We configured the web, database and email servers, helped move DNS and update zone records, set up back up routines, and basically set up the site shell.
• We installed and configured WordPress, the software Creative Portland identified as its preferred CMS.
• Design requirements were tricky! No canned template would do, so we built one specifically for the site.
• As content developers and web designers, Wing and Ko. and Slickfish Studios, built out the design and content, we supported them by debugging issues, resolving (or helping to resolve) them, and we provided a second set of eyes as things went online.
• Meanwhile, we integrated the site with Constant Contact, using their developer API, and we search engine optimized and set up analytics tools (Google Analytics and AWstats) for the site.
• We launched LiveWorkPortland.org from its staging location to its "live" site, moved the launched version to source control (we use Subversion), and prepared for the future by creating a project management site (in Trac) for the team.

LiveWorkPortland is hosted by Packawhallop.

Check out LiveWorkPortland.org!

Links:

LiveWork Portland
http://www.liveworkportland.org/

Create Portland Corporation
http://www.portlandmaine.gov/creativeportlandcorp.htm

LEDA
http://www.ledadesign.com/

LuDesign
http://www.ludesignstudios.com/

Slickfish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com/

Wing and Ko.
http://www.wingandko.com/

Packawhallop
http://www. packawhallop.com/

UMRLAC water quality monitoring program site gets Yellahoose-powered update

April 2010 - The website for the Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee's river water quality monitoring site got some modest but value-added and really neat updates this month, thanks to program and sampling managers and Yellahoose.



First step was databasing existing monitoring location and E. coli sampling data. Yellahoose built a simple relational database in MySQL on the UMRLAC server and populated it with data provided by UMMP Sampling Supervisor Steve Landry.



Building an entirely new user interface was out-of-scope and budget for this round of revisions, but updating the existing UI to make use of the database, and to add great new features, like enhanced mapping and interactive charting using Google APIs, was an easy set of tasks for Yellahoose.



Finally, Yellahoose developed more user-friendly tools to the UI using Dojo -- and, last but not least, reCAPTCHA was added to newsletter and listserv sign-up forms.

Links:

Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee UMMP sites and FaceBook page
http://www.merrimackriver.org/
http://www.merrimackriver.org/programs/ummp.php
http://www.facebook.com/UpperMerrimackRiver

Google visualization tools
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/

The Dojo toolkit
http://www.dojotoolkit.org/