Ecologineers 2.1

Over the past few weeks since version 1.0 of my groups' project, there were many new additions and modifications to the program. Instead of one page that just does the chart, we have added a homepage which describes the entire project, and as stoplight page that gets the current carbon output. There is also a menu bar that allows the user easy navigation throughout the website. We have also upgraded the grid info to implement a chart. The chart now allows for users to look at data over multiple days because there is now a start dates and an end date that users enter. The users now have a choice of what source they want to choose from to view.

There is a new stoplight that tells the user the current state of the system. The stoplight shows green, red, or yellow which indicates if there is currently high, medium, or low carbon intensity. Low is green, medium intensity is yellow, and high intensity is red. The colors mean the same thing on the gridinfo page. The gridinfo page contains a chart with 3 input fields. A start date, end date, and source. To make the program user friendly, we have set the program up so that the same start and end date is one day. Ex. 10/01/2009 to 10/01/2009 will get the chart to print out the 24 hours worth of information.

Some other additions that we have made to the program was implementing ajaxpagerefresh for the stoplight page that will refresh the page every minute without the user having to manually refresh the page. We also added nice URLs, which made the URLs easier to read.