Dear All, Well, my significantly betterhalf has been working hard recently. Usually she is working on farmie type things, garden beds, nurseries, managing the wwoofers, etc, farm type things. Anyway, she is working on a web page, which you can see at https://www.mmrfbz.org (also NOW featured in my signature!). It is a bare bones item so far, and will have a few problems (being sorted), but it is a start. It has an anemic home page, waiting to be fleshed out, and a page about the upcoming Permaculture Design Course here at Maya Mountain Research Farm next February. We are working on several other pages now. Anyway, just wanted to share it with all'o'y'all in Oz. If you have any input, ideas, etc, let me know.... this is Dawns first web anything, and I am very happy with it. She, being a perfectionist, is only half happy with it :? . Christopher
WOW, that's a great looking site, and great start to what will great... greta great great... Anyhoo.. Tell Dawn great work.. PS I'm also contemplating on coming over to do your PDC Course... Will have to see how funds sort out after xmas..
Nice work Christopher, or Dawn more to the point, tell Dawn that both pages work great on a windows XP based puter using internet explorer, opera, and firefox..... Good to see a website working well across all the different operating systems and browsers.. Oh and nice useful meta tags too, two thumbs up... :thumbup: :thumbup: Damn you have such nice green jungle.......
Yep I tested it from Unix and Fedora (linux) and XP. All good.. Yeah, well I've been a bit blah, as I really bored.. Got my application into the Uni today.. Found out it had to be in by this friday,, (lucky find) Been trying to get overseas for ever (Have been but with work (ARMY) and wasn't at all pleasant in most cases) And I thought yeah I'll go see Chris and do the PDC.. Then Sam suggested it, so now I may.. But like all things, money comes into play and being after Christmas I'm not really got know I can afford it until maybe end of December so I hope there will be spots left
Mate ... Bug report... the link to the pdf file on the course is wrong.. it reads. https://www.mmrfbz.org/Users/christop/De ... allpdc.pdf
Dear Juan Anall, Thank you all for your words of encouragement and al the hardcore testing on various OS's. Dawn is glowing in your praise (tho typically Dawn, she is pretending she isn't glowing..). She is obviously pleased... and so am I. Dan the Man, wow! It wouold be great for you to come over for the course, I mean REALLY great! Really great doesn't cover it! It would be sooo-o-o-oooooo fantastic! Thanks also for the bug report. MMRF's very own IT babe is on it. She says she needs to do something... and I will leave that to here. Joel, green now, rainy season, but things get a distinctly brown tint, in a greenish way in the dry. Oh Great Queen (etc...), I, your huimblest of servants have forwarded the message to my Empress. Tezza, thanks for your positive words. Anyway, she has been working on it for weeks, in a part time frenzied dealing with other stuff kind of way, and she posted it with no fanfare (no cigars, no massive emails to all friends)... so this is my litlle fanfare.... Best to all of you, C
Hi Christopher, Wow! That looks fantastic. What a beautiful area you live in, and it looks warm too. :sunny: 8) Please tell Dawn how clever she is to have used that wonderful bamboo as the wallpaper stationary. And did you say something about anaemic? Does Dawn know you said that? :silent: It looks far from anaemic to me, but you guys obviously have some ideas about what you want to 'flesh it out' with so until that's done, it probably does look anaemic to you, once again focusing on the work yet to be done, like our gardens! I'm very envious of Dan, even considering heading over. Hey Tully, they've got a rooster like Napoleon!!! Well done, I have added it to my favorites. Tam
Tam, Aneamic is Dawns term, not mine! She has BIG PLANS for the web site... I think it looks great! And, sadly, we don't have a rooster like Napolean because the wwoofers ate him after he bacame a bit mean-spirited. I posted (in horrific detail) the debacle of Rocko the Radical Rhode Island Red Roosters unfortunately botched execution... that gorgeous bird... was Rocko.... Thank you for adding it to your favourites. Dawn will be updating it frequently, to keep it interesting. C
You have a great beginning there, Christopher and Dawn. I don't want to be too critical or rain on the parade, but I look forward to some content... I get really sad when I browse web pages about Permaculture and rarely find any really useful information other than when (yawn) the next course is offered... I know that you guys are vast repositiories of useful information, so I really look forward to your site becoming a useful resource. Maybe you could include some plant profiles? How they fit into guilds etc?Some history of your site? Lessons learnt? Of course, lots of pictures are good. I like websites where you can click on photo's and get a larger picture so you can soak up all the detail. Oh, and maybe you can post some pictures of your bamboo fences, Cwis?
Lessons learnt?... They are great ideas.. I'm a big fan of lessons learnt dbs.. How are you guys hosting your site ? Do you have access to a MySQL server with PHP installed ?
Richard, Ask and ye shall receive. Dawn and I have been working on beefing up our home page to start with, and then when we have that posted we will be looking into explaining what we have done, what we are doing right now and where we want to be in on, five and ten years down the line. This will take a little while (next week I am off to collect some vetiver grass), but is in the works. And while we didn't want to make you sad (I promise :lol: ) we had never posted anything before, so wanted to just see if we could make it work, (sort of like rebuilding a lawnmower, and wantintg to see if it works..) as well as mention the PDC because we have committed to making that happen next year, and are eager to get the word out. The PDC is MMRFs entry into the world of agricultural work. We have committed some funds to advertising i the US, and we are working on strengthening our infrstrucutre to host up to 26 people. While we have hosted Peace Corps trainees and a few college groups, this is different. Also, we are planning to have as many Belizeans working in agriculture and pverty alleviation prjects attending, which is dependent on generating interest in the PDC in general. BTW, Penny Livingston and Tobey Hemenway also have the PDC listed at their sites as they are the primary instructors, but field visits will include Saul Garcia, Ignacio Ash's and Burton Caliz's farms. Dan the Man, we are using a hosting sevice called Mecca Hosting, which has been very helpful. They also provide us with our domain and email accounts for the project. They set us back about USD11 a month... wwhich is reasonable, and they are very quick responders to questions. They are at https://www.meccahosting.us/ Anticipating your (potential) questions, we are using Freeway Express for our page design, and MMRF got a steep discount from them for their software for being a registered not for profit. They are at https://www.softpress.com. Dawn made the page using a 4 year old Mac G4 Powerbook and a Mac iBook. She had zero experience (as I mentioned..) I have no idea about MySQL or PHP is, and Dawn started laughing when I asked, looking puzzled. "what's that?" she asked.... We are so green at this, and our learning curve is mega sharp.... more like a reverse spiral. We will be working on it tonight, says Dawn when I told her Richard wanted some CONTENT, because she was making him depressed . She promised she'd get right on it :lol: . I'm off to make strong sleep depriving coffee so I can keep Dawn company while she goes over some text we worked up and figures out how to make and post the page again. It's sort of like "Wow, I can;t believe we got this posted... :shock: Anyway, thanks for your interest and support and for your constructive criticism, which helps us break inertia from our contented state of accomplishment, and sends us back to the mill stone... C
Hey Chris (and the MMRFs Webmaster - Dawn) PHP and MySQL are 2 web technologies that will allow your site to be dynamic.. By this I mean you will be able to update say your webpages and have a forum and all that kinda cool stuff.. Without much hassle.. EG this main site here using a product call WORDPRESS, https://wordpress.org/ which is FREE, yup thats right it is out there, and lots of it when it comes to Content Management Gear for the interent. Some is really basic, and some is technical... 99% of Open Source Software (FREE) comes with install guides and your host will probably be able to help you out,,, Or I can no problems.. It will make things like adding News, Journal entries, random thoughts, etc etc very easy.. Much the same as posting a thread here in the forum... andhoo food for thought.. It would make Dawns life that little bit easier as well, as once it is setup, you need only add content, rather than re editing the source files everytime you wish to make an update (which results in not making many updates, to hard basket)
Oh Great Queen Tullymoor, Decanonizer of Poor Defenseless Birds whose Exact Breed may Now Officially Be in Question.... According to the Mennonites who gave our friends the bird, Rocko (formerly known as Pirhana, now mouldering in a composting pit latrine) was a Rhode Island Red Rooster. Of course yer picture does throw that into question.... However, he was crowing at the time the photo was taken, and he looked more like yer picture in regular running around life than he did frozen in crowing..... and, he were a BIG boid, dat I promise you, not a bantam at all.... You could be right that I am wrong. And I could be wrong, right? Your Pwince, Cw Dan the Man, Thanks for that. Dawn says she is going to look into it soon, but has commited to putting out a "where we are" page while we work our way through a more interesting page about food security and biodiversity. Christopher
Oh don't get me wrong... Your site didn't make me sad at all, since I know you are going to put oodles of cool stuff on your site as time goes by! I get sad by the plethora of websites that aren't much more than ads for PDC's or workshops or whatever. I mean, fair enough, it is a good vehicle for that sort of thing, but I remember when I first discovered the web I got all excited about searching for info on Permaculture, and there wasn't much out there other than ads for PDC's. Geoff's site where we are right now is a pretty good exception.
