National Park Foundation
I have done a lot of work for the National Park Foundation recently, and it has been awesome. Creating sites for something that is a part of all Americans has really been fulfilling. After they finished with their Leadership Summit, we had to get right back to work on the main website.
My role in the project was to slice it and implement it. We used a lot of similar stylings from the Leadership Summit website. Again I used sIFR headings and the Dean Edwards IE7 scripts.
A couple of other interesting pieces is the search in the upper right. That is actually pulling results from their Google Mini, returning it in XML, and then I am parsing it into the nicely layed out search results. That was my first experience with a Google Mini, and it took a little time to figure out.
Another interesting piece is the Stories and Profiles section on the subpages. This is randomly pulling an entry from the content management system, then you can click previous and next to return more stories via an AJAX request.
The standard Email to a Friend functionality that I created is also on the left hand side in the Share This section.
Awards
I am very pleased to report that the National Park Foundation website won an Interactive Media Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement. The site score 470 out of 500 possible points.
