June 6, 2006
Small Thank-you No. 2
For the folks on the forums, I've added editor buttons to easily generate links to searches on Google and Wikipedia. See this thread for more details and an explanation.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)
June 2, 2006
Small Thank-you No. 1
I've enabled s (strikethrough) and img (image) tags to what you can use as HTML in comments. A few people have tried to post images in the past and weren't able to, so this fixes that little problem.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 12:10 AM | Comments (0)
June 1, 2006
40 Small Thank-Yous
I started to track the statistics for the web site in early 2003. In the first full month with stats, February 2003, the unique web site visitors that month reached just over 3000.
40 months later, the number topped 275 000 for the month of May 2006. Roughly a quarter million people had some sort of interaction with the UBC Botanical Garden's web site last month.
The reason why it has had such phenomenal success is you. Without the seemingly tireless effort by (and inexhaustible patience of) people on the forums, the commenters on Botany Photo of the Day who share their personal thoughts & stories and the folks who help spread the word about the site, this place would be only a shadow of what it is.
Instead of posting a big “thank-you” and being self-congratulatory, I thought the best way of saying thanks is by making 40 small improvements to the web site over the next two months that somehow benefit you (depending on what you use on the site, of course). No, I don't have a list of all forty things, but I do know that I want to make the site a bit easier to use, increase the content on the site and make it somewhat more appealing. If you have ideas for improvement (or want to share what really frustrates you!), drop me an email, comment, or post on the forums.
I'll be cataloguing the “forty small thank-yous” in this weblog as I institute them.
Cheers!
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:44 AM | Comments (8)
UBC Botanical Garden Blog
Welcome to the new UBC Botanical Garden Blog! The weblog formerly known as the UBC Botanical Garden Weblog has been renamed to “Etaerio – A Plant News Weblog and will continue its focus on plant news from around the world.
The name was changed so that we could reapply it to this new weblog. The positive experiences we've had with weblogs, the photo of the day and discussion forums have led us to think that we can try a few more steps toward revealing what goes on “behind the scenes” at the garden. The plan is to allow some of the people involved with the garden (staff for now, hopefully researchers, FOGs and garden members in the future) to write about what's going on and share with you their thoughts and opinions.
Speaking for myself, I'll be posting new entries frequently over the next little while as I work on my new initiative.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:12 AM | Comments (0)
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UBC Botanical Garden Blog is a project of the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, located in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. UBC BGCPR is a department within the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at The University of British Columbia.