Last week the BestPlaces team pulled together a small, simple site to help people gain a big insight into drought in the U.S. with DroughtScore.
The site takes a city name or zip code as input and spits back a score, based on 100 being normal. For example, Portland is 107.2, mild drought.
DroughtScore is a microsite, which I’ve in the past called
one trick ponies. I mean it as a compliment. By focusing on a single purpose, it helps communicate only what is important to the user. With DroughtScore, I hope we found the sticky substance.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I too love the idea of a site like this focusing on a single purpose.
Not to nit pick, but I did notice on the page when it asks you the standard “did you mean?” question with regards to the city you entered it has incredibly small text for the options to select. I totally missed it the first time when I typed in “Seattle, WA”.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
You’re right. The same thing has happened to me.
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Very nice. What charting engine did you use?
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Dundas:
http://www.dundas.com/Products/Chart/NET/index.aspx