Like a Drop of Water is the brainchild of children’s book author Richard M. Wainwright. He approached Jon Ellis Design with an idea to raise awareness of climate change and pollution amongst the children of the world.
The website is a place where children can go to submit an essay on what they and their country can do to help stop climate change. Every month we will pick four of the best essays. The child who wrote it will receive a $100 prize.
The website needed to be able to grow with its expected popularity. This was achieved by implementing WordPress as a content management system. WordPress also allowed us to make the site completely dynamic. After submitting an essay, children will receive an automated email with a dynamically generated PDF file which is their certificate of participation. We can easily track where essays are coming from and store the data. We can then run database reports and send the entries to our judges located around the world.
This project has been a labor of love because it demonstrates the power and potential of the world wide web to unite communities all over the world.