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Gwydion Kitchener, ON(Zone 5A) Jan 03, 2002

Here's an idea I'm going to think about out load. I am going to start my journal. I have never used this function before. I have an excel spreadsheet I use and a printed binder as well as an electronic map of my yard with the electronic copies of my binder pages as hyperlinks in the appropriate places on the map. (Forgive the run-on sentence)This way I can click on the 'cosmos' on my yard map and it will take me to a page I created in word with a pic and brief description as well as sowing instructions etc.........
Could something similar be incorporated into the journal? What do you think?

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dave Jan 03, 2002

How did you make this electronic map? Did you have a special software program to do this? Did you have to develop any of this yourself, or was it included with some other software application?

I ask these questions because I considered putting a feature very similar to this into the journal. I never did, however, because of the extreme amount of time it would take to develop it. Doing image creation and manipulation on the web is difficult, because the web was never designed to do that sort of thing.

It would be a very cool feature for the journal, though. Anyway, I'm curious about your setup there.

Dave

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Gwydion Kitchener, ON(Zone 5A) Jan 03, 2002

I had the info sheets already done in Word and saved as html's.
Then I made a crude mock-up of my back yard in Dream Weaver.
I put the name of each plant in the appropriate spot on the map then made those Plant Names hyperlinks to the word doc's above.
I'm sure someone else could do a better job with the map but being that it's my yard it didn't have to be very detailed or fancy as I know basically where everything is already.
My brother, who is a programmer in Vancouver, and my son who is a programmer in our basement (he asked me to type that :)suggested using planix photo landscape. Both of them played with it trying make me something similar but they never finish anything that is for me....

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