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HTML tags for Garden Bloggers

Have you ever thought how cool it would be for garden bloggers to have their own HTML tags? Sure you have, who hasn't ?

As I was contemplating this very question just the other day, it dawned on me how wonderful it would be to create your garden from your very own computer - using nothing else but HTML code! For the uninitiated who treat HTML, or any coding language for that matter, as something from the pit of hell itself allow me to cover a few basics.

Most of us would have seen the common tags that turn up in our templates yet make very little sense. Tags such as <div>, <span>, <body> etc. (I'm making the assumption that you all understand that each tag has it's own corresponding closing tag as well ie. <div> and </div>)

Well, what if we began creating our own such as <flower></flower> or maybe even <compost-heap></compost-heap>

We could then begin to design our gardens with a few well appropriated tags defining it to the nth degree.

For example, here's a garden I produced earlier;
<garden style='border:blue;border-style:picket;' class='cottage'>
<gardenbed align="right-next-to-the-fence">

<flower style='height:groundcover;color:white;'></flower>
<flower style='height:shrub;color:yellow;'></flower>
<flower style='height:tall;color:red;type:rose;'></flower>

<bench style='width:wide-enough-for-large-bottoms;height:tall-enough-to-keep-the-kids-off;
color:rustic;'></bench>

</gardenbed>
</garden>

And here it is - photo

It would certainly make life much easier for us gardeners, wouldn't it?





Posted by Stuart on July 19, 2008 8:05 AM | | Check to Subscribe to this Comment:


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Maybe easier for you!

Posted by: Sheila | July 19, 2008 10:20 AM

That has to be the funniest thing I've read to date. Witty! awesome stuff.

Posted by: Andrea | July 19, 2008 1:11 PM

That's a thought! And a fun one too!
/Katarina

Posted by: Katarina (Roses and stuff) | July 19, 2008 2:28 PM

That really appealed to my sense of humour, having been a programmer some 25 off years, and more recently retraining in Garden Design and horticulture... would be so much easier to do plans in HTML, than to draw them to scale, smudge the ink , or muck up a rendering of finished drawings and perspectives!

Best Wishes,

Zoë

Posted by: Zoë | July 19, 2008 3:07 PM

As much as I enjoy making web pages, I think I would miss the sunshine....

Posted by: Melissa | July 20, 2008 9:55 AM

Ha ha ha. Remind me of turbo pascal from high school. Yuck.

Posted by: Benjamin | July 20, 2008 1:39 PM

Stuart... take a deep breath, and then for god's sake STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!!!! Dig your fingernails in the dirt for rather immediate relief!

*grin*

Posted by: Blackswampgirl/Kim | July 20, 2008 1:42 PM

Ooo -- brilliant! :-) I might even write in a water feature for effects.

Posted by: Nancy Bond | July 20, 2008 2:25 PM

My web designer/developer and gardener sides equally appreciate that. Great post!

Posted by: Amy Williams | July 20, 2008 3:36 PM

Oh, no Stuart don't scare me. I think my garden would look all topsy turfy! Or I better start with the lessons now!

Posted by: titania | July 20, 2008 5:49 PM

Kim - Ha. Love it...as soon as my fingers thaw out and the dirt doesn't snap them upon impact, I'm soooo there. Until then I'm here dreamin' and codin'.

Posted by: Stuart | July 21, 2008 6:56 PM

Stuart! what original creative thoughts! Truly out of the box. If only it were that easy! Love it!

Posted by: Barbee' | July 22, 2008 1:08 AM

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