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?