Welcome to Juneberry.org design. I recently received a garbled comment on one of my demo sites asking, I think, what exactly the name juneberry.org had to do with content management systems and web sites. Well, maybe nothing yet, after all this is just my little corner of the web and its a jumble of interests business as well as personal. I chose the domain name juneberry.org because the plan was and still is to put up a CMS dealing with various Permaculture information and ideas that I have pack-ratted around on my hard drive thus making them of use to someone besides myself. And I call it junebery.org "design" because design is the major factor connecting the various interests you will find here (peace, permaculture, web site and content management systems design and implementation, and information architecture.)
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions rather than asking only one yield of them and of allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions." Bill Mollison
So if you look you can see quite a bit that applies to any kind of efficient design. Efficient, well suited, functional design is the connection between all the different things you will find here.
I like open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) because they are a lot easier for the average person to use. (That is they integrate better into their environment :-)) If you are not familiar with content management systems, think of it as a word processor program that spits out web pages instead of other document file formats. Content management systms also do a lot of keeping track of things around the web site like indexing, searching, turning back the clock if you make editing mistakes, and very importantly making all the pages look the same (theming). Once you get a CMS set up you are in charge of your web site and can make changes to it without either specialized html knowledge or having to call a programmer every time you want to make the inevitable necessary changes. You can get on with doing what you do best, the computer can get on with what it does best. And f you use open source systems it costs about the same as a static web site. Feel free to browse the demos I have set up. There isn't much content in them yet but you can get some idea of how thy look. Try opensourcecms.com if you want to investigate even more demos.
- What is Permaculture?
- What is design?
- Whats the overlap?