Sara Rampersaud's Page

Sara check out facebook-coolWIRE. We have worked with COTC and they did a page.

Good to see you today. Let me know what Cindy says about the database set-up and if you want to set something up with a web person to look at what will be needed to set up the site like you want it.

Sara, I can see the issue you're referring to on Internet Explorer 6. Edit your style.css file and change the 'width' under #search from 1003px; to 150px;

The section in your CSS file will look like this:

#search {
background:#FFFFFF url(images/top.jpg) repeat scroll 0 0;
height:64px;
margin:0 auto 0;
width:150px;
}

Let me know if you need any help. When I made that change the page looked correct on IE6.

Sara there was a lot of green technology at the NECA trade show I was at last week in Chicago and thought you would have liked it to get ideas. I posted a video of our product on display there on my page. Have a good day.

Sara,
Here is the website that our Grants Specialist, Sue Spiker, found for you: http://www.communitysolution.org/nsreports.html. It has similar information like her website, with a lot of focus on use of oil/gasoline, etc. A person from the organization is going to be speaking at an upcoming community development conference, that she has info. about. She also found other websites similar to yours.

She thought you could use your website for educational purposes and perhaps have online lessons/activities that schools/homeschools, etc could access for a minimal fee. There are a few educational websites that I found provided by large companies targeting schools, etc. Maybe you could tap into the central ohio market.

Sara,
I think you have some good ideas and they can work out well. Good luck and if you need to talk feel free to e-mail me and I will send you the LEED info.

Sara,

Here is an idea you may want to consider for your site: there is a free component called the Sigsiu Online Business Index 2 (SOBI2) which would allow you to easily create green company profiles. It would also allow members of your site to add new companies once you've set it up.

SOBI2 lets you define the fields you want (e.g. Name, Address, Phone) and does all of the back end database work for you. It also provides display, sort, and search functionality and supports other plug-ins for things like user reviews and ratings.

SOBI2 plugs into a free open source content management system (CMS) called Joomla. Joomla has won several awards, is one of the most popular CMS projects, and has a very large community. Joomla has a large number of templates and extensions you can add to your site, most of which are free or very inexpensive.

Several web hosts now offer "1 click" installs of Joomla which would allow you to quickly get it up and running. From there you would want to purchase and install a template for your site's look and feel (templates are typically free to $50), then install SOBI2 and get it configured.

Here are some related links:

Joomla: http://www.joomla.org
Joomla Extensions: http://extensions.joomla.org
SOBI2: http://www.sigsiu.net/sobi2.html
Popular Joomla Template Companies:
* http://www.rockettheme.com
* http://www.yootheme.com
* http://www.templateplazza.com
* http://www.joomlart.com/blogcategory/club_portfolio.html

Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help.

It was very nice meeting you today. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help with your web site and database.

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