Belarus Nature Database - natdataby.com
Project description
We all know that the environment is crucial for our healthy living. We know about climate change and issues with ecology. But the exact knowledge is often missing, especially for some countries. That's why it's important to have the tools that show clearly environmental challenges for the general audience. So when we were asked to develop the web portal for Belarus with such a goal in mind, we eagerly accepted it, despite its possible challenges.
And there were a lot challenges indeed. The website itself consists of a several sections. First, it's the map section with the maps showing different natural protected areas and animal habitats. Second, it's the database section with multiple databases of the mentioned habitats and protected areas with filters and the ability to export filtered results. Third, it's the news section with environmentally themed news from Belarus and Europe updated regularly. Fourth, it's the document section with the documentation relevant to the map and database section, as well as to the discussions happening around the environment in Belarus.











Features
As you can imagine, the map and database sections were especially challenging to develop. It took a couple of months of work to implement the functionality properly. But we managed to do it in the end.
The services provided:
- Creation and filling of nature maps using Open Source frameworks
- Development of the website structure and design from scratch
- Copywriting, blog post writing
- Development of a nature database in a table form
- Work with JS, PHP, CSS and more
- Content and photo editing
- Setting up of hosting and SEO
- Map, database and website automatization
What was used:
- CMS Joomla + paid components
- UX/UI, design
- Work with MySQL and other database types
- Adaptation to any device
- Ersi, OpenStreetMap and other Open Source frameworks
- Google Analytics and registration on search engines
- CSS, HTML, PHP, JS, Helix and more
Additional information about the project
Overall, the project is really unique for Belarus. There are similar websites in Belarus but they are not comparable in terms of the data available and functionality. The project also combines the knowledge of people working in the field (quite literally) which they have been gathering for more than 20 years. But it also an international project because it's funded by the German government program, and an university in Germany supported the project providing its own hosting as well as an informational help.

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