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Comments (9)I guess the better search engine would be something I would have suggested, but you seem to already be working on that. My main suggestions would be to update the look of the entire website. It should be something easy to use of course, but a bit more sleek in design. I would also love to see html editing for posts! I would enjoy seeing some colour, diversity in text, and able to add bullet points, bold words, italicized ones, etc. I think a good forum (not that this website isn't already awesome) allows for greater post editing, aside from being able to just go back and fix up a spelling error, or to add more information. Since this is a forum based website, a sleek design would actually improve user ease of use. What I notice we lack on this website is the use of the right panel of the page. It is almost always blank. It can be utilized to make it more convenient to search for things. For instance, there can also be a drop down list for every forum on the right hand side, removing some of the pages we use to get from forum to forum, such as this page: -> http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/rosesind/ This page would be unnecessary if you used the right panel and had a drop-down list function to get to the lists. This will make the website look more modern and easier to use. On the other hand, these pages can be kept, and the site can still look modern by having a website border to fill in the empty sides, having the text more centered, leaving less blank space, and giving a better sense of organization and modernity. Ahh... sorry for the ramble. I am just brainstorming. edit: ivillage.ca the main page is a great example of having borders and the information centered. This post was edited by gardencarnation on Fri, Jan 4, 13 at 14:13...See MoreGardenWeb needs your feedback!
Comments (40)Hi everyone! You asked and we listened. Today we are very excited to be debuting our newest feature -- post editing! To use this feature, go back to the post you wish to correct and you'll find the link under the 'My Clippings' links on the right side of the page. I want to give a special shout out to all the testers who tried to break the editing tool. ;) Your feedback was insightful and invaluable. Thank you! You may have also noticed that we adjusted the login cookie awhile back so that you should not have to login repeatedly. Stay tuned -- we have more cool things in the works! As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Best regards, Tamara...See MoreGardenWeb needs your feedback!
Comments (72)1) Better search. The current search is not only limited, but buggy (it doesn't return all matching results, even if the posts are recent, for example). 2) Ability to search multiple areas at the same time without searching the entire forum (for example, just Home Decorating and Paint, or Bathrooms and Plumbing, or Building a Home and Remodeling, or Appliances and Laundry Room, etc.) 3) If you're on That Home Site, search should default to THS, not to GardenWeb (this should be a trivial fix). 4) Additional subject areas for topics that always get a lot of questions (Fences and Walls, Roofing, Contractor Disputes, etc.). 5) GW should host its own photos so they don't disappear later -- it's so frustrating to read a thread and not be able to see the photos that go with it, or to have to create yet another account to log into a separate photo site. 6) A simpler way to add a link to a post 7) The ability to add multiple links to a post 8) The ability to designate certain posters as favorites so you could easily see their recent posts (your favorites list should be private, though). 9) A dashboard where you could see your recent activity (threads that you've started, threads in which you've recently posted messages, your watched threads, postings by your favorites, your clippings, etc.) so that you don't have to use search or go to your profile to find this information each time you log in The ability to set up rules for alerts. For example, you could set a rule that sends you an alert whenever mythreedogs (one of the Home Decorating rock stars) posts a photo. No limit on saved clippings Very often, posts aren't very helpful because the reader doesn't know where the poster is located. (This is also true on THS, not just on GardenWeb.) To solve this problem, GW should require all members to provide their zip code, which members could keep hidden if they choose. No matter whether a member's zip code is hidden or visible, GW should ALWAYS display that member's hardiness zone on their profile and posts, as well as a GENERAL description of their location. Members should be able to control just how specific the geographical description is (Greater Boston, Massachusetts, or New England, for example). Ability to edit your own posts and to delete posts that no one has clipped Please recruit forum moderators who would have to the power to delete inappropriate posts and to edit other people's posts (for example, to correct misspelled words in the subject line that would prevent readers from finding that thread The ability to tag threads as helpful or inappropriate The ability to select a font. The ability to control how GW appears on mobile devices...See MoreGarden Web and Houzz
Comments (80)I think Houzz is located just 20 minutes up the Peninsula from me in Palo Alto. If they have their customer service locally, that would be the Pacific Time zone. As for the name thing, almost EVERYONE got that message about their name already being taken. Somehow I think there is some kind of doubling effect that goes on when you register with GW. I was absolutely not going to give up my online name so I wrote to customer service and insisted that I am the real, original, one-and-only Rosefolly, and they gave me back my name. I think the same kind of thing is going on with many GW users. I believe that if it is important to you (it was to me) and if you persist, you can get your name back. Rosefolly...See More
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