Yellahoose develops reporting tools for Americorps/Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, Gulf of Maine Council and Olympus Asset Management

January 2009 - January was a very busy month: besides some large ongoing projects (there will be great news on those in February and March!) Yellahoose designed and developed reporting and data visualization tools for a number of business and organizations.

For Americorps and Goodwill Industries of Northern New England Yellahoose built a tool to report on in-kind time and contributions made by Americorps sites. The tool uses Americorps' existing IT infrastructure. For Gulf of Maine Council Yellahoose built grant expense and fund development reporting and visualization tools using tried-and-true IT like SQL, Excel and Flash. For Olympus Asset Yellahoose property valuation tools.

Creative Cottages, Just Yours Jewelry and Porter Panels choose Packawhallop for web and email hosting

January 2009 - Creative Cottages, Just Yours Jewelry and Porter Panels each all chose Packawhallop for their web and email hosting needs.

Packawhallop is a web software products and hosting company owned by Gordon Holman of SlickFish Studios and Jim Cradock of Yellahoose.

Links:

Creative Cottages
http://www.creativecottagesllc.com

Just Yours Jewelry by Mark Dube
http://www.justyoursjewelry.com

Porter Panels
http://www.porterpanels.com
(Check back later for the updated Porter Panels web site!)

Gulf of Maine Times publishes Fall/Winter 2008 issue with Yellahoose help

December 2008 - The online and printed editions of the Gulf of Maine Times, the newspaper of the bi-national Gulf of Maine Council, were published. The new issue includes articles on renewable energy in the Gulf, the impact of high energy prices on lobstermen in the region, and other stories. More content will be added to the web edition over the coming weeks and months.

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Yellahoose worked with Times editor, Nancy Griffin, GOMC committee members and other contractors, including David Keeley (The Keeley Group), Michele Tremblay (naturesource communications), Michelle Muise (popgraphics.net) and Peter Alexander (Talking Conservation) to build this issue.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Times (includes archive of past issues)
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/

Gulf of Maine Council
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

The Keeley Group
http://www.thekeeleygroup.com

naturesource communications
http://www.naturesource.net

popgraphics.net
http://www.popgraphics.net

Talking Conservation
http://www.talkingconservation.com

Porter Drywall web site launches with content management solution built by Yellahoose

November 2008 - Porter Drywall launched its new web site highlighting its diverse work throughout the state of Maine. The site was designed by SlickFish Studios, It uses a content management system (CMS) to make it easy to add projects, photos, slideshow images (for Adobe Flash slideshows).

The CMS was built by Yellahoose based on Porter's specific requirements to promote its drywall contracting business by region and by type of project. The CMS uses PHP, MySQL, Apache, XML and JavaScript.



Additionally, the web site is being hosted by Packawhallop, a new software products company co-owned by Yellahoose principal Jim Cradock and SlickFish Studios grand vezir Gordon Holman.

Links:

Porter Drywall
http://www.porterdrywall.com

PHP, MySQL, Apache, Flash
http://www.php.net
http://www.mysql.com
http://httpd.apache.org
http://www.adobe.com/flash

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Packawhallop
http://www.packawhallop.com

Yellahoose retained to develop interactive Boston Harbor Islands National Park resource stewardship strategy web site

October 2008 - Yellahoose has been retained by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine to develop the interactive web site for the National Park Service's Boston Harbor Islands National Park.

The web site will include a relational database system (RDBMS), search, web services and data visualization tools (GIS, graphing) to allow users to retrieve information and data on natural resource stewardship activities in the Park. In addition to custom design and development, the web site will utilize existing technologies and data already made available through the Mitchell Center and its partners.

The site will be launched 2009.

Links:

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/

Boston Harbor Islands
http://www.bostonislands.org

Children's Museum of Maine chooses Packawhallop for web site and email hosting

October 2008 - The Children's Museum of Maine picked Packawhallop as the new host for its web site and email hosting. Packawhallop is a Portland, Maine-based software products and hosting company created by Gordon Holman of SlickFish Studios and Jim Cradock of Yellahoose.

The most significant issues to address for the Museum were the incredibly high number of spam email messages staff were receiving and to provide a stable and reliable web hosting platform. Packawhallop moved the site to a server at A2 Hosting, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and SpamAssassin filter was applied to all email sent to the Museum.

Value-added tools, like Google Analytics and better housing of content in a simple, powerful database management system, are planned for the Museum's web site as well.

Links:

Children's Museum of Maine
http://www.kitetails.com

Packawhallop
http://www.packawhallop.com

SpamAssassin
http://spamassassin.apache.org

A2 Hosting
http://www.a2hosting.com

Google Analytics, PostgreSQL, Python and PHP
http://www.google.com/analytics
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.python.org
http://www.php.net

The Salt Institute moves and relaunches its web site

September 2008 - The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies relaunced its web site. The site, designed, architected and built by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose, uses a sophisticated template system allowing for easy update of Salt's substantial radio, writing and photography content.



Salt's new site makes use of XHTML and CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Flash to make for a rich and easy to use web experience. It provides a great platform for Salt's content.

This major update is the first in a series of phased updates to Salt's online presence. Future updates will outreach tools for Salt students, alums and supporters, as well as secure login and content management for the online gallery and student and faculty work spaces using software built by Packawhallop.

...and Salt's moved! The school's new address is in the heart of Portland's vibrant Arts District:

561 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04101

Links:

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
http://www.salt.edu

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com