Hi there, Unfortunately, some usernames had already been registered to Houzz users prior to the transition with GardenWeb. In those cases, the usernames are not available. I was, however, just able to confirm your account for you and merge your content with the account you created with the little_bea username. I also changed your display name to little_bee, so that will be the name appearing with your posts. Just remember to log in with your email address and password created on Houzz. Hope that helps!

And the more time you spend here under the new format, the more familiar you will become with it and the easier it will be to navigate - I have to admit to a degree of shock and displacement when the format changed as well. But it only took a day or two to become familiar with the new set up and I don't find it has any significant differences from the older renditions of Garden Web. A few more technical glitches now and then but even those are gradually being worked out. Many of the same people and many of the same questions. And enough new of both to keep things interesting :-))

I cleaned my cache etc this morning and now my pages are Houzz. I had the dickens of a time trying to find the categories. I wanted to see what Hot Topics was doing, and when I clicked on Gardening, it doesn't give all the categories, as we know HT is listed below Hot Peppers. It took me right into Gardening discussions which I don't want. So now I manually change the houzz url to Gardenweb discussions OR click on my personal topics on the left. They are still Gardenweb. And, when it's Houzz, all of my discussion categories (KT, Cooking, etc) are all shown. I don't like that. I like browsing around Cooking or KT, I don't want all the discussions showing on the same page.

So sorry you're having problems. It does take some getting used to, but there are still a lot of good folks around here. I'm an old-timer from way back, and still enjoy it. There is a 'Using Houzz' forum. And if you click on the 'Follow' link @ the upper right of the forum's main page, you can build a list of favorites on the left side, so you don't have to search or bookmark everything. You can see I am following this topic. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like on my desktop computer, using Chrome: The little bell is notifications, where you can check updates on things you've commented on, or liked. The 'Edit' link will take you to the full list of forums, and 'Your Houzz' is your account and all your comments, saved or bookmarked things, and topics you've started, etc.. Just check the boxes of the forums you want to follow and they will be added to your list of topics. 'Explore Discussions' shows only a limited amount of topics. Be aware that there are 2 URLs. The one you want, if you are a Gardenwebber, is the one that starts with https://www.gardenweb.com/, NOT houzz.com... Hope this helps. Stay well and safe🙂