Litter website
Teresa Gallagher
FYI: I have a draft new website for the Anti-Litter Committee online for comment: www.sheltonconservation.org/litter . The idea is to try and automate registration as much as possible and to collect accurate information during that process, so we don’t have a replay of the 2009 awards ceremony where the Mayor wanted each individual sent an invitation and a certificate of appreciation yet we didn’t have that information available and ended up making phone calls and so forth to get it for 50 registered groups. To that end, there is an online registration form, and the information collected is automatically added to a live Google spreadsheet that can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet, from which mailing labels can be created. A portion of the spreadsheet is online, showing others what areas and groups have been registered, but excluding private contact info.
Groups will need to come back after their event and enter the names of individual participants if they want patches or certificates. (I will also have a Clean Sweep 2010 patch made up).
The old website was on Google Pages, which Google quit offering and they transferred the website to Google Sites. The transfer process corrupted the pages. Also, the old site was only for Clean Sweep, while the new site encompasses Adopt-A-Street.
For now it is parked as a sub-website of conservation on the City server. I’ve asked Rudy a couple times whether Litter can have it’s own area on the server but haven’t heard back. Gil Pastore purchased the domain name www.DontTrashShelton.org , which points to the old Google site, but we should be able to have that redirected to the City server, even if it’s to a subdirectory (this is how Sheltontrails.org works).
I was able to build this site from City Hall since they actually purchased and installed Web Expression 3 on my computer (!) This is the first site I’ve built from scratch rather than using a template, so it is simple and took quite awhile because I was learning.
Teresa Gallagher
Conservation Agent
City of Shelton
54 Hill Street, Shelton, CT
McCreery, Edward P.
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Teresa Gallagher
Interesting idea…I think there would be difficulties in that people will not know the address of a park.