Working for a Greener District of Columbia
COMMUNITY GARDENS in D.C.
Our Directory of D.C. Community Gardens is a work in progress, so send us any missing information you may have. Mandie Yanasak is our Community Garden Chair and here's her email address. Also, send Mandie your ideas about how we can serve DC's community gardens.
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Websites for Community Gardens
Your garden can have a free or lowcost website. Here's some services, and some experiences by gardeners.
Domain names:
First, if you'd like an easy web address, buy your own domain name for only $8 to $10 per year at Go Daddy or Yahoo Small Business. Then simply "forward" it to your actual (less easy to remember) web address. An example of a short domain name is www.CityGarden.org, which is much easier to promote than addresses without their own domain names (for example, www.citygarden.blogspot.com.)
Website Services
Free, with hosting. Easy to use, multiple people can have access to post updates, etc. Downside: meant for blogging (continual updates) not so much a static website.
Suggested work-around: Post about topics you'd like folks to have easy access to, ie: "Garden Policies" or "How to get on the waiting list". Then use the "permalink" for those posts and link to them via the sidebar panel "Links" in blogger.
Mandie, are pages not an option on BLogger.com yet? They're the mechanism for using blogs as a static website, and Typepad and Wordpress have them.
Free hosting for any group, with upgrades available for nonprofits .(Mandie, this means that nonprofits can upgrade for free?) Advertising-free!
Downsides: few template choices, limits on pages and frustrating title sections.
Work-around: if you just need one or two pages for your site, this works great. If you need more, you may wish to integrate applications like GoogleDocs, where you actually host the information (for free!) as a google document and link to that page once it's published.
Apply online at their website for free web hosting, complete with live support 24/7. Sounds to good to be true.
Downsides: wait time to be approved, uses FTP so it's not as easy as using a template that's already there.
Free web hosting, many, many easy-to-use templates. You can buy a domain name and have it point to your freewebs page, making it low-cost. (or no cost if you go with www.freewebs.com/gardenname)
Downsides: has advertisements, seems to take a lot of computer resources (so don't plan on using this with your IBM from 1994).
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