katesowles / 201_final

A collaborative project that incorporates Skeleton framework, the Highcharts library, CSS animations, local storage, and data from the Army Corp of Engineers (harvested via RSS) stored as JSON.
http://katesowles.github.io/201_final/
MIT License
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201_final

Final Project for Code Fellows Portland 201, requirements here : https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1012436/assignments/4488798

DEPLOYED SITE URL: http://katesowles.github.io/201_final/index.html

Comments from Jan: Friday 04/08/16

Project wish list / features to work on / criticism:

resize logo to required size. add more information to the charts, so users immediately know what they are looking at. For example that this is data ONLY from the Bonneville-Dam fish-ladder or that the numbers include Coho, chinook and Steelhead (even though that is stated above with the ‘yesterdays fishcount’ it needs to be right in the chart I think).

I feel that although the website looks great and we got a lot of bells and whistles going (like the geo-location feature and the mail-chimp email sign-up feature, one of the main user question of “Is now a good time to go and see salmon in the wild?” does not get answered immediately… The paradigm “Don’t make me think” fails a little… the information is definitely there, once you read a little and compare the numbers of yesterdays fish-count and normal peak numbers in the About-us text (or when you look at the charts a little closer…). Ideally I would want a section at the top with a simple message that tells you where we are at in terms