• Login if needed.
• Click the Home Page link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Fill out the form with some information about you. If you have one, then it is nice to add a picture that represents you or your garden.
• When you are ready for others to see your web site, you should check the active checkbox. Until you do that, no one else will be able to see your site.
• Click the Update Home Page button.

The text editor that appears on many pages should work like a simplified word processor. Here is a brief explanation of the functionality offered.

• Bold
• To bold a section, highlight it and click the B button.
• To unbold a bolded section, highlight the bolded section and click the B button.
• Italics
• To italicize a section, highlight it and click the I button.
• To remove the italics from a section, highlight the desired section and click the I button.
• Underline
• To underline a section, highlight it and click the U button.
• You can remove the underline, by highlighting the section and clicking the U button again.
• Strike Through
• To draw a line through a section, highlight it and click the ABC button.
• You can remove the the strike through, by highlighting the section and clicking the ABC button again.
• Horizontal Line
• To draw a horizontal line, click the button showing a horizontal line.
• You can backspace over the resulting line to delete it.
• Unordered or Ordered List
• Highlight the desired section and click the either the bulleted or numbered list to create your list.
• To remove the bullets or numbers, simply highlight the section and click the approprieate bulleted or numbered list.
• Link and Unlink
• To create a link, highlight the text that you wish to turn into a link and click the link button. A small window will popup where you can enter the url.
• A web url should start http://
• A mail to link should start with mailto: and look like mailto:some_email@example.com
• To remove the link, highlight it and click the broken link button.
• Undo and Redo
• The undo your most recent change click the undo button.
• To redo your most recent change click the redo button.
• Note that the undo and redo buttons only remember changes since you last browsed to that page.

An Ordering page is an example of an Info Page on this site. Roughly, you create a page and assign blocks of info to it. First create the info page itself.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Info Pages link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Click the "add a new info page" link.
• Enter "Ordering" for the name of the info page. You do not have to change the sequence number.
• Click the Add Info Page button.

You should now be on the page listing all your info pages. The Ordering page now exists and you can start to add info block to it.

• Click the Edit link beside Ordering.
• Click the "add a new info block" link at the bottom of the page.
• Fill in the form with the information that you want to show up on your ordering page.
• None of the items are required, but you will likely want to enter some text and an image if you have one.
• The sequence can be changed if you want to change the ordering of the info blocks. In most cases, you will just want to use the default.
• Click the Add Info Block button

To create an About Me page, just follow the steps above for creating an Ordering page and use the name "About Me" rather than "Ordering".

• Login if needed.
• Click the Plants link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Click the "add a new plant" link.
• Fill in the form. The name form element is required. All other elements are optional.
• If the image is larger than 600x600 pixels or 150K, then it will be automatically resized to less than 600x600.
• Thumbnails are automatically created from your uploaded image.
• If you want the plant to be listed as display only then enter a 0 for the price.
• You may place the plant in multiple categories. To do this, hold down the Ctrl key and selected the desired categories.
• Click Add Item when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Plants link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired plant in the list and click Edit. Note: You will also see the edit link on the page for that plant when browsing your site while logged in.
• Edit the form as desired. The name form element is required. All other elements are optional.
• If the image is larger than 600x600 pixels or 150K, then it will be automatically resized to less than 600x600.
• Thumbnails are automatically created from your uploaded image.
• If you want the plant to be listed as display only then enter a 0 for the price.
• You may place the plant in multiple categories. To do this, hold down the Ctrl key and selected the desired categories.
• Click Save Changes when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Plants link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired plant in the list and click Delete.
• Verify that you are deleting the correct plant and click the "Yes, delete ..." link. Note: You may prefer to just mark the plant as inactive, sold out, or display only. Set its price to 0 to mark it as display only.

You would need to purchase your own domain name and tell it what name servers to use. I can help you with that if needed. Once you have the domain, I would need to make some configuration changes. It sounds more complicated than it is. Just ask for help when you are ready to do this.

Right now, you can change the fonts and color scheme on your site. More customization choices may be possible in the future.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Theme link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Fill in the form.
• Click Save Changes when finished.

Eventually, there will be nice color and font choosers on the theme page, but for now you have to manually enter the color and fonts. Until then, you can use the tools at www.colorpicker.com or www.colorschemer.com/online.html to choose colors. If you are using IE, then you can do the following to see a list of fonts that your browser can display.

• Go to Tools->Internet Options
• Click General Tab
• Click the Font button near the bottom of the page
• Be careful not to change your current font selections.

If you are using Firefox, then you can do the following to see a list of fonts that your browser can display.

• Go to Edit->Preferences
• Click Content Tab
• Click the Font dropdown.
• Be careful not to change your current font selections.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Newsletters link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Click the "add a new newsletter" link.
• Fill in the form including a brief description of the newsletter and a date.
• Click Add Newsletter when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Newsletters link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired newsletter in the list and click Edit.
• Edit the form as desired. Note: If you need to edit the actual newsletter itself, then you have to do that on your computer and upload the new version.
• Click Save Changes when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Newsletters link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired newsletter in the list and click Delete.
• Verify that you are deleting the correct newsletter and click the "Yes, delete ..." link.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Calendar link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Click the "add a new event" link.
• Fill in the form including a brief description of the event and a date. You may also enter an optional end date.
• Click Add Event when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Calendar link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired event in the list and click Edit.
• Edit the form as desired.
• Click Save Changes when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Calendar link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired event in the list and click Delete.
• Verify that you are deleting the correct event and click the "Yes, delete ..." link.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Seedlings link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Click the "add a new seedling" link.
• Fill in the form. The name form element is required. All other elements are optional.
• If the image is larger than 600x600 pixels or 150K, then it will be automatically resized to less than 600x600.
• Thumbnails are automatically created from your uploaded image.
• Click Add Item when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Seedlings link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired seedling in the list and click Edit. Note: You will also see the edit link on the page for that seedling when browsing your site while logged in.
• Edit the form as desired. The name form element is required. All other elements are optional.
• If the image is larger than 600x600 pixels or 150K, then it will be automatically resized to less than 600x600.
• Thumbnails are automatically created from your uploaded image.
• Click Save Changes when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Seedlings link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired seedling in the list and click Delete.
• Verify that you are deleting the correct seedling and click the "Yes, delete ..." link. Note: You may prefer to just mark the seedling as inactive or to uncheck its seedling checkbox to treat it as a sales plant.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Categories link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Click the "add a new category" link.
• Fill in the form including a name for the category. The description is optional.
• Click Add when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Categories link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired category in the list and click Edit.
• Edit the form as desired.
• Click Save Changes when finished.

• Login if needed.
• Click the Categories link under the "Manage My" heading.
• Find the desired category in the list and click Delete.
• Verify that you are deleting the correct category and click the "Yes, delete ..." link.