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The Armidale Waldorf School website is a Joomla site based on a highly customised template. A full content management system with integrated blogging and automatic front page news posting via Twitter. The site was developed to reduce the administrative complexities at the ‘school end’. Integrated galleries, class blogging, video display capabilities and an integrated document library (offering both public and password protected access to selected files). The site was developed over several iterations and through an ever expanding group of ‘overseers’ which led, ultimately, to a total stall on progress and the decision by the school to simply not proceed. The lesson here is to work with a clearly defined brief and to maintain a tightly defined web development administrative process. Web sites can become astonishingly personal for people involved in identity-making exercises of this kind! The two main iterations of the site are displayed here. The site is now ‘filed’ but the design work is still worthy of inclusion on this Lifecycling Design portfolio list, if only to indicate the possibilities for school web sites. The complete template is available to any other school should there be interest in taking over an established and fully operational site at a fraction of the cost of building such a site from scratch. Contact Lifecycling Design if you would like to explore this opportunity for your own school organisation.

Pint Pot Miniature Horses. A simple site for a wonderful business (owned and operated by my daughter!) Click on this link to visit the site.

Photo Essays is a synthesis of story telling with words and photography. It is the latest blog of Roderic Gill (linking into rodericgill.com). Photo Essays is a Wordpress blog under a customised template with integrated twitter feed live updating and links into related photo gallery and ‘print shop’ e-commerce space. This blog is a replacement re-invention of the successful (high visitor traffic) EnviroBlog site that has run continuously for over two years. Website link

Professional photography site for Roderic Gill. Site is a portal into all related sites within the same and relative domains. Though a basic layout, this web site includes live Twitter updates (important to maintain a ‘living character’ for websites such as this, a full professional photo gallery and an associated print sales area (full e-commerce functionality). Website link

Web site concept and design for DrumGrab Australia. A deliberately simple site incorporating multimedia and e-commerce (store) facilities. Website Link

Bicyclism Blog is an internationally popular cycling culture-related weblog (blog) facility associated with the Bicyclism.net website. Weekly hit and RSS feed subscriptions exceed 300,000 visits per year. The site is based on WordPress and a theme/template customised for this application by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Roderic Gill also maintains the site (and is the author of all of its content!). The site is Roderic Gill’s major internet hobby/passion. Website Link.

Lifecycling.me is the personal web space of Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Lifecycling.me is a portal into all of Roderic Gill’s web space initiatives. Website Link.

Bicyclism.net is a cycling news and views site with a hit rate of over 300,000 unique visitors over 2008. The site is a Joomla based design overlaying an integrated blog (Bicyclism Blog), Twitter RSS feeds, and a second technical and review blogging facility. The site was designed and is maintained by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website Link.

Enviroblog is Roderic Gill’s personal environmental blog. The site is a WordPress blog based on a theme adapted by Roderic Gill within the domain of the Environmental Gateway site. This site involved significant PHP scripting and CSS style sheet customisation to support its intended purpose, target audience and larger website context. Website Link.

Environmental Gateway is the ‘home site’ of the environmental gateway family of related sites (Transdisciplinary Gateway, Water Gateway, Enviroblog and Transforum). Environmental Gateway is a news and analysis facility, a repository of papers, reports and related environmental policy and management materials, the home base for Enviroblog and related interactive facilities through which to underpin ongoing open-community engagement around the themes of environmental sustainability and resilience. The site was conceived, designed and is administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website Link

Transforum was developed as the ‘interactive seminar room’ of Transdisciplinary Gateway. Transforum is a forum facility for any and all who which to engage around the various themes that are central (or even peripheral) to the integrative Transdisciplinary Gateway learning site. This forum was developed by and is administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website Link

Transdisciplinary Gateway is a pioneering attempt to build a ‘virtual university’ facility for integrative environmental education and research. The site includes an open forum, a large library of research reports and related resources (including much of most recent work of the one-time Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research), a weblog (blog) facility and RSS syndicated news. The site was conceived, designed and is administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website link

The Waterfall Way community ecotourism initiative was a $0.5million social enterprise project involving the collaboration of the New England Ecotourism Society, the Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research, five regional local government organisations, a number of key state government agencies, as well as thousands of regional community members. The foundation of the project was to facilitate a tourism-based regional development enterprise that was fundamentally grass-roots up. A key component of the work was an interactive web site that would connect business, community, government and visitors/nature based tourists together around the various environmental assets of the high country region of northern New South Wales, Australia. The website was developed by a team of designers and web IT professionals under the overall direction of Lifecycling Design founder, Roderic Gill. Website link.

A web site for the inner sanctum of the Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research community. This intranet site was a large virtual library of research materials, meeting schedules, calendar planners and an infrastructure for virtual meetings across the internationally-distributed Centre community. Again, this site was an attempt to facilitate the interactive possibilities now foremost to the modern Web 2.0 agenda. Few people outside the Centre ever saw this restricted access site and those who did will recall the heady times and excitement that the Centre facilitated for so many years before its inexplicable closure by its host university. The site featured an array of animated gifs and innovative password access facilities. It was conceived, designed and administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill.

One of our first ‘community development interactive web sites’. Launched in 1995, Gwydir Online was an early attempt at internet-based community engagement for collaborative community development planning. Launched well before the current craze for ‘Web 2.0’ interactivity, Gwydir Online involved various facilities through which community members could explore planning opportunities, access planning related information, and otherwise have a direct say in the unfolding of regional development. Associated with a large grant project, this web site has catalysed a continuing process of engagement that persists to date. The design called for simplicity and the facilitation of easy community access, even for those unused to the internet and the interactive possibilities on offer. The site was developed under the direction and design leadership of Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill.

One of the most tragic victims of ill-considered, virulent restructuring processes in Australian university history, the Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research was unconscionably closed by the University of New England in early 2008 after a 22 year history of innovative, successful community engagement project activities that spanned the globe. The Centre was home to an engaged community of over 30 researchers, project associates and PhD students, maintained a high profile in international water governance and tourism policy and research and pioneered new pathways through which to engage communities in sustainability-contexted development and resilience. LIfecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill designed the Centre’s web site and its various underlying community engagement focused facilities. The connection between this web site and the Society for Organisational Learning Australia site (see below) is evident. Professor Gill directed the Centre for 8 years, from 2000 to 2008.

We designed the original web site for the Society for Organisational Learning Australia: an exercise in free form, Jungian inspired image maps! This web site was launched in the late 1990’s to rather overshadow the equivalent site of the head office organisation (the Society for Organisational Learning) in the USA... Our intent was to design a site that reflected the abjectly innovative and paradigm-breaking Organisational Learning ‘movement’ that advocates systems thinking and a fundamentally refreshing re-think on the management of organisations of all kinds. Inspired by founder Peter Senge, the Organisational Learning perspective has underpinned most of the work with which Lifecycling Design founder, Professor Roderic Gill, has been involved with for over 20 years. Roderic Gill designed the site and was one of the Society’s founding Directors.

Ecotourism Research is a pioneering Web 2.0 tuned attempt to engage the international ecotourism community of operators, tourists, tourism researchers and tourism policy people in an ongoing conversation around ‘environmentally sustainable’ tourism activity. The web site was developed by Lifecycling Design on behalf of the Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. The site incorporated forums, a blog, a resources exchange facility and various plans for collaborative research endeavour. However, the host Centre was closed via a restructuring process before full implementation could be realised. The concept remains, however, an initiative with which Lifecycling Design was proud to have been associated.

Tags: ecotourism research, interactive research

Watergateway was developed to be an open-access repository of water related reports and resources for water policy professionals and researchers. The site included an innovative virtual publishing enterprise (‘virtual books’) where major publications would be posted for community feedback and subsequent revision by authors. This live publishing endeavour is akin to a wiki facility (indeed, it worked through the wiki implementation, PM Wiki) though with more editorial control vested with primary authors than is the case with completely open-access wiki ‘works’. Watergateway was conceived, designed and administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. The site is currently ‘on hold’ until suitable host resources can be found to underpin its full implementation. Website Link.