g'day,

just updated our web site added some new pages.

let us know what you think?

also are guest books outdated now? seems lots of visitors don't see
the need or whatever so maybe we should weed it out?

see you:

http://www.gardenlen.com/


With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

Len,

Very cool approach. Are you purchasing all the rough materials in your
strawbale garden (straw, mushroom compost, sugarcane remnants) or is
that all available locally (don't see how you manage THAT in a small
yard! )?

How long does it take for the materials to break down inside the
strawbales?

Thanks for sharing!

Its great that you''re able to produce your own website, but a little
more design and a little less banners would really make it better. The
banners, while you may think they are useful, really don't match the
website and just bulk-up the page, (think doughnuts, not steak and
eggs).

g'day happybattles,

not real sure waht you mean?

this apge ahs been running for over 7 years now and very ealy on i got
some constructive criticism that i follwed and to date have no other
comments apart from positive ones.

when i use banners apart from my own they are to mainly promote other
web pages that othes have online and generally connected to the
subject matter.

and i have always placed those banners to the bottom of the pages so
the imprtant information comes up first and gives the reader something
to peruse as the page fully loads

now i'm just a common garden type gardener who has learnt to use html
code and create a web page, i'm no fancy web master. and i see their
pages many times they are often hard to navigate and very slow to load
not simple at all.

i could easily provide text links for other pages but then hey that
would be a trifle boring wouldn't it?

could you maybe be more specific about

"The banners, while you may think they are useful, really don't match the
website and just bulk-up the page, (think doughnuts, not steak and
eggs)."

tia

On 26 Aug 2006 08:20:49 -0700, "Happybattles"
wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

when i use banners apart from my own they are to mainly promote other
web pages that othes have online and generally connected to the
subject matter.

Its not that the banners aren't connected to the subject matter, but
they look like coupons scattered on a dinging room table. My
suggestion: Get smaller banners, no more than 40x40 pixels, from the
websites you are linking too. Or, even better, group the banners into
more specific subjects. Then provide a link to those subjects. Then
put the banner on one side and a description of the website, what they
can find, how it would be useful and the website address. Also,
linking the banner straight to the website is useful. It would go
somethign like this:

table border=1 bordercolor="black" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=6
tr
tdimg src="http://putalinktothebannerhere"
alt="websitenamehere"/td
td
bWebsitename/b: Description - make sure you put all the info here
like a newspaper reporter. Maybe even put a rating like *** for a
great resource or * for a slightly useful website.
/td
/tr
tr
tdRinse, repeat./td
tdRinse, repeat./td
/tr
/table


and i have always placed those banners to the bottom of the pages so
the imprtant information comes up first and gives the reader something
to peruse as the page fully loads

That is one way to do it. A more useful and professional approach is
to get smaller images and/or save the image-heavy pages for pages other
than your main page.


now i'm just a common garden type gardener who has learnt to use html
code and create a web page, i'm no fancy web master. and i see their
pages many times they are often hard to navigate and very slow to load
not simple at all.


True true.

i could easily provide text links for other pages but then hey that
would be a trifle boring wouldn't it?


Yes it would. Images make it easier for friends to show what they've
found because they don't have to read, they just look at the color and
shapes.

Overall you have a successful website. I can help - at no charge - but
I need some info about your web server.

1) Are you running it off your home computer?
2) Is it a Windows server or Linux (Apache)?
3) Do you have ASP privledges? If you're not sure, ask the company you
pay to host your website.

If your website is on a Windows server and you have ASP privledges,
then I can create for you a very nice website which will be very easy
for you update, change and alter. You won't be able to change the
basic layout, but adding links, changing text and such will be very
easy with little instruction, which I will include with the ZIP file I
send you. Installation will be easy too, as you already know how to
put files on your website.

g'day happybattles,

thanks for replying.

i will take that code and put it onto my page and see how i can use it
i am always willing to learn new things though i may not fully
understand how it all works.

with those banners i can insert code to change the size or i can use
the picture viewer to do that for me, i will look at that side of it,
i ahve done some tidying up of the frontpage.

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1) Are you running it off your home computer?

yes i run it form our home pc.

2) Is it a Windows server or Linux (Apache)?
3) Do you have ASP privledges? If you're not sure, ask the company you
pay to host your website.

not sure about what is meant bythe above? my isp allocates me some web
space to run a page in that is how it works.

i don't pay for nor can afford to pay for a webmaster.

all i pay i an anual fee for the domain name.

the basic layout of the frontpage was done for me by a friend at the
time, her link is in my salutation line toward the bottom of the page,
so she did the banner and the tables for me, and i just added the
rest.

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send you. Installation will be easy too, as you already know how to
put files on your website.

not sure how far i want to go with it at this time, but i thank you
for your offer. we are pensioners on limited income it would be nice
to get some gratuity form those who use the site BUT dunno.

a question for you though "what is involved in setting up a donation
link"? maybe that may work? not looking to millions but something to
supplement would be nice.

tia

With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

On 16 Sep 2006 08:17:28 -0700, "Happybattles"
wrote:

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table border=1 bordercolor="black" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=6
tr
tdimg src="http://putalinktothebannerhere"
alt="websitenamehere"/td
td
bWebsitename/b: Description - make sure you put all the info here
like a newspaper reporter. Maybe even put a rating like *** for a
great resource or * for a slightly useful website.
/td
/tr
tr
tdRinse, repeat./td
tdRinse, repeat./td
/tr
/table

tried using the above code dunno must be me i got some fram up but
nothing in the information i substituted showed as a live link.

here is wha i did:

table border=1 bordercolor="black" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=6
tr
tdimg src="img src="the_vege'_garden_logo.gif"
alt="The Vegetable Patch"/td
td
bThe Vegetable Patch/b: Gavin has links with the local Organic
Growers Club, his page is full of good information for all Organic
Gardeners.
/td
/tr
tr
tdRinse, repeat./td
tdRinse, repeat./td
/tr
/table


the only thing i can figure is that i need to include the a href="
along with the img src= code to create a live link??
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

"Happybattles" wrote in
oups.com:

*snip: website improvement suggestions*

While we're talking website improvement, I'd like to suggest that anyone
doing websites takes the time to read Jakob Nielsen's top 10 homepage
mistakes and avoid those things. Most of them (like not opening pages in
new windows) don't require much knowledge of web development to
implement.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

I'm not affiliated, I just happen to agree with most of what he writes.

Puckdropper
--
Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

g'day gonzo,

yes i purchase it but it comes from local suppliers not retail outlet.

as the height of the medium has reduced i'd say it is well on the way
to be broken down especially the leaves and softer bits, the grass hay
i used for mulch over the mushy compost is breaking down and getting
thin so i am currently topping that up by placing our kitchen scraps
on the top of the old mulch and covering that with new mulch in this
case sugar cane mulch.


On 26 Aug 2006 07:52:53 -0700, "gonzo" wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com