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The Environment And You

Welcome to Our Website

Our website is devoted to informing readers of the environmental issues facing all of us.


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About us

 Our website is about "The Environment and You". Throughout the site, our focus is on the idea that saving the environment is one of the most crucial issues we are facing today. In order to allow our users to expand their knowledge of the environment we have provided them with many useful tools such as forums, a wiki, videos, a chat room, and informative articles.

All of us Together, one big happy family

Charter Number: 06-0032
Canton South High School
600 Faircrest St. SE
Canton, OH 44707
Phone: (330) 484-8000



Team Members

Zachary Lewis Serafini
Zach Serafini Zach is the website team leader. He created most of the site's graphics, along with all the extras of the site from the trivia challenges to the games.

His hobbies include soccer, computer programming, speech and debate, academic challenge, and tennis. He also runs a new web-browser based game called World In Warfare. He knows a variety computer languages including Javascript, Actionscript, PHP, and some C++. He is also employed over the summer at Canton Local Schools maintaining computers. Also, he hopes to participate in next year's BPA website design team competition.


Benjamin Jay Young
Ben Young Ben is the website developer. He designed most of the site, along with all the extensive features of the site from the php/java chat to the automated Sitemap.

His hobbies include computer programming, snowboarding and tennis. He also owns a small organization called BlaherTech, which deals with designing websites to making windows applications. He knows a plethora of computer languages from C++(.NET), Java, Php, and most web languages ((X)HTML, CSS, JS, SVG, XSLT). He is currently employed at a Web design firm called The Karcher Group. Also he hopes to participate next year in BPA Webdesign with a template he's been working on for almost three years.


Jeromé Kevin Frederick
Jeromé Fredrick Jeromé is the Content Manager. He did most of the research and checked for errors in spelling and grammar.

His hobbies include computer programming, computer repair, gaming and bowling. Jeromé's languages include HTML(XHTML), C++, and CSS.



Languages we used for
the Development of our site:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Flash
  • Actionscript
  • XML
    • XHTML
    • SVG
    • RSS
    • XSLT
    • Sitemap
    • WML
  • Java
  • Robots.txt
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • WBS
Tools we used for
the Development of our site:
  • Dreamweaver (for FTP source editing only)
  • Notepad
  • GIMP
  • Flash
  • Google Anylitics
  • Google Webmaster
  • Google SketchUp
  • Photoshop
  • BlaherTech Template code snippets (Created by Ben himself)
  • Fireworks
  • Firebug
  • Apache / PHPd / MySQLd
  • PHPMyAdmin
  • W3C Validators
  • PjIRC
  • WinBot
  • ChatSpike IRC Network
  • SMF Forums
  • Wikimedia


Special Thanks

 We'd like to thank all of our parents, family, visitors, beta-testers, teachers, advisors, judges, coordinators and all student leadership for donating their time, effort and participation in the event of our Website Design competition. We would not be able to have any of this without you. -Thank you