Hey all. In an early blog I asked for input on what you thought this site needed. Being a new site, and only getting around 15 visitors a day, I didn't expect much of a response. I wasn't surprised. That's ok. I did get one persons response that confirmed that my thoughts on the subject seemed to be good. I moved forward with that in mind.
As some of you may know, I'm a student teacher. I'm in a masters program called the Inclusive Elementary Educators Program. This program trains me on how to deal with every student in my classroom. I will end up with a masters in special education as well as teaching credentials in early childhood education (3 years old to 3rd grade), elementary education (3rd grade to 8th grade in an elementary school) and primary specicial education (age 3 to 8th grade in any school).
Why am I bringing this up? Well, it is my way of saying Spring Break is here! Since break is here, I'm working my hiney off trying to get some things done on the site. I altered the way the blog backend worked. The old way allowed for many people to have blogs. It was overkill for my single blog and had some issues that I did not like. The new system is made for a single blog. It also has some issues, but I think it is more to my liking. At the same time I set up a couple of other changes.
Even if you don't have an account, you can now leave comments. If you have an account, it will not ask you to confirm you are a human though. I also installed a program that will allow you to inject HTML into your comments.
The main thing I've been working on is the plant index I was talking about last week. It is fairly simple at this point, and I've only put one plant into it. I also don't think that the data is currently completly correct, as I futzed with it to make sure things were working properly. I'll be correcting that data and adding other plants into the database over the next week. I don't think I'll do it tonight, but I might do some work on it. First I want to get the images working on it. That is the last little tweak I want to do to it before I call it complete. You can check it out though. Part of this new system is that you can add some of the data to it. You can of course add comments, with or without an account. If you have an account, then you can add links to other sites with useful information about that plant. You can also add in pictures, or will be able to when I get that part finished.
Check it out and let me know. The one plant I have in it now is the Luffa Gourd. You can see it at http://tiredgarden.info/plant-index/luffa-sponge. If you have any comments about it, I would love to hear them. This is your chance to help mold the site. Once I create the index, it will be much harder to make changes.
