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[Ad Vlems <advlems@planet.nl>]

That wil teach me for barging into a discussion about what to use at the
backbone of the website.
I have already made my decision about what to use for my website and since I
am the only one producing it, the decision was made unanimous ;-)
I didn't ask about what would be best to use, I asked about the general
design of your website. What is the intention, what is the use, why did you
want to make a website. But I am retracting my question since it is too
confusing.
Please continue your discussion, sorry for the delay.

Ad

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Van: pcplantdb-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:pcplantdb-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] Namens Lawrence F. London, Jr.
Verzonden: woensdag 7 juni 2006 15:18
Aan: pcplantdb-piwdev
Onderwerp: Re: Report to Threshold

Ad Vlems wrote:

> I want to integrate three ways of searching:
> - simple (search for part of a plantname)
> - complex (make a selection combining all possible fields)
> - question directed, in which the next questions can be selected:
> * I want to grow a plant that can be harvested in August.
> Here you can change the month and add the kind of soil/sunlight in 
> your garden.
> * I want to create my own plantlist (that I planted in my garden), 
> make an inventory of them and get a list of gardentasks per month 
> (when to sow, harvest, etc)
> * I want an edible plant that will bloom yellow in May.
> Here you can change color and month.
> * I want to attract butterflies, which plants should I plant?
> * Which plants will grow in a pond?
> * Which plants are good companionplants?
> When one of the questions is selected, you get a list of plants. When 
> you click the plantname, you get the detailed info.
> 
> Could you give me a list of what your website would have for visitors 
> to profit? Maybe we can help each other.
> 
> Your's truly, Ad Vlems
> My website is: www.permacultuur.net, it's still very much under 
> construction.

A simple way to provide users with this kind of plant/cultural information
is with a wiki and doing a fuzzy text search of names of wikipages that
would lead to pages and groups of pages of well organized text and graphical
info, lists, links, message archives, etc.
Making wiki-based interactive online resources available makes it easy to
acquire quality data like this and its portable so can be accessed by your
database.

LL

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