Betja said:Thank you Juli! You've made me sooooooo happy! But I still have one question. I got the idea somehow that you had to choose either ATP or Cubits for daylilies and go with one or the other, and that once you move everything over the Daylily Cubit will disappear. Is that correct, or will there still be a Daylily Cubit after everything is moved? And I think (hope) I'm all tapped out on questions now...

If you have articles - they have to be either on ATP, or Cubits - they cannot be in both places. And, if I have Dave move the content of forums over to the new site, they will MOVE - not be copied - so they won't be in both places. I had to decide what stays here and what goes.

Right now, he does not have the new site set up for databases. So, that has to stay here. Also, he will have ONE forum for all plant co-ops. I have not seen any forum for sales/trades yet. From what I have read, if you have a cubit with a storefront in it, that is supposed to stay here. We don't do much in our sales/trade/seed area... so for now, it will stay here too.... Dave can always move it over later.

Remember, the new ATP Daylily forum will only have one forum, where everything will be all together - so a sales thread would be in with all the seedling photos and chat posts. Might not be seen much! We are just going to have to "feel our way" for a bit to see how this works out. Right now, since I don't want to make any money off this cubit, no fees are charged from the sales/trades forum. Once we move over to ATP, we don't know right now, but Dave **may*** want to take a percent of sales there --- as far as I know, this has not been discussed. I am just guessing. I think for now, leaving that forum here is the way to go.

Every member of the cubit was sent an email in the "blast email" I did. If they don't regularly come to Cubits - it was sent to the email address they gave when they signed up. So I am not worried about any members not hearing about us moving to ATP. Once we make the move, I will post a notice here with a link directing people to ATP.

I plan on having a "sticky" at the top of the forum for links --- and the top link will be back to this cubit which will be our "sister forum"... to get people back to the database and sale/trade forum. Some of you have put a lot of time into the database, and I want people to be able to find it!

I am not sure how large the box will be at the top of the forum - how much info I will be able to put there - but I may be able to put a link there to guide people back here to come to the sales/trade forum and database also.

So this Cubit WILL be here -- it will have less forums, but some of it will remain here.

Trish has been saying to think of the two places, Cubits and All Things Plants as "sister sites"... I don't think of them as not competitors.... For those of you familiar with GardenWeb, think of GardenWeb and That Home Site. They are sister sites. One contains all things garden and plant related, and the other has all the other forums.

Some of the garden forums, as I understand, have elected to stay here at Cubits. I don't understand this. The new site has a lot more potential to grow, will be simpler to navigate....

When I meet people involved in daylilies - and I tell them about Cubits and ask if they have been to the daylily cubit - if they have been to Cubits -- almost every person says they have and the whole Cubit site is to complicated, to hard to find their way around and they never came back.

The new site will be much simpler. So, it will be easier for people to use, so that when they do come - they will stay. That is the #1 reason we are moving. I have great confidence in Dave and Trish. I like what they did here at Cubits - I know of no other site like it - but I have a tough time finding new cubits and just "poking" around to see what is here -- and I have been here since the hour it opened up. I can imagine how confusing it would be for someone just coming here the first time. With what Dave knows from having DG, and now building Cubits - I think All Things Plant will be a huge success.

Be patient, stick with us during the transition, and I think you will find it will be worth it.

Honestly the links are mine but even I don't really like the idea of links. It is not the same as having pictures posted.

I will just see how it goes. I do like the idea that everything is under one forum instead of who knows how many daylily forums in cubits. So you just go to the daylily forum and then post on diffent daylily topics. That way makes it easier to see posts other people have done that would interest me.

Judi- I was writing while you were posting. I hope the new site will "move" like gardenweb. Gardenweb on a busy forum like daylilies is made to have lots of posts that quickly move down a page as more new ones are added to the top. Your post comes up to the top again when a new comment is made. Lets say I post on Monday. By Wednesday for sure even with comments that post is on page two or more back. It works great as newest is usually seen first at the top half or so of page one. You just read anything that intersts you. You don't have to know that there is one place to ask about raising daylilies, Another for hybridizing and so forth confusing and arebitrary divisions.

Rita, I am sure it will move that way.

Oh and, by the way, my name is Juli - pronounced like Julie - short for Juli Ann... not Judi....

Oh opps and double opps. I have no excuse for misreading your name. I have been looking at it all this time and seeing it incorrectly. Must be getting senile LOL!

I have found All Things Plants and have been over there looking and checking it out. Some of the forums are up like there is a roses and lilies and iris forums all up already. I put a lily flower picture on the lilies forum. I am pretty sure it took the same as here. But I really want to drop the links and post pictures there. Will see how it goes after transition. I intend to abandon My old pictures thread. Still think you should deleate it after the move or leave it behind.

I hate to do that. But, I can do that after the move, if you want me to. Let's see how it goes.

Just a thought... Are your photos on your computer .jpgs ? I was just wondering if they are in a format that takes longer for them to convert?

I may ask another cubit member for suggestions. He does a lot of photography, and I think he also uses the photo site you do. I know he uses a PC, where I use a Mac. He knows a lot about technology - he may be able to figure this out. Would you mind?

Juli- (Ha got it right that time LOL!) I know there are photo resizing softwares even if I can't name one off the top of my head. But I am never going to use anything but my Kodak Easy Share which is were my two Kodak cameras connect to. I don't do the share part, just that the loading and conversion and looking and such is all very easy in this software plus it gives me a nice folder of pictures for whatever day by date. So there are my picture albums in kodak easy share by date. Then you save the ones you want to JPG which puts tiltled pictures on the hard drive. Then I upload those named JPG to photobucket but also those are the ones I upload the image from here and at Daves Garden. The photobucket resizes as they get loaded there (if you want) and you pick your size. So the photobuckett pictures are a great size but I am sure the JPG on the hard drive are big files.

Now I never tried here with my old Kodak DC 290 but at Daves Garden it uploads much faster than the new Z980 camera which I use now. So something is different between the two cameras pictures.

I messed around in the kodak easyshare and found a place to change the JPG compression on saved pictures which I thought would fix it but it didn't help. So I am at a loss. I know there must be a way to fix this but I have no idea how. If you have advice that would help or any friends do then I would be grateful. Thanks.

Jpg is what you want, so that is good.

Is one camera older? It probably has less megapixels, which makes a smaller file coming out of the camera. It could be quite a bit smaller. My older Nikon coolpix averages around 2-3 mg per photo. Depending on how it is set, my newer Canon could take 14 mg photos.

I was just reading some forums about the new site... Seems Dave recommends the browser Firefox when anyone has problems. What browser do you use?

The DS 290 is quite old. The other only about 3 years old. Go look at my daylily thread. I think I figgured it out!

Hurray. We are moved over. I love the move, I love the format were everything is on one forum and posts are so easy to find. Love live All Things Plant!

Okay, Help me out here guys please. First off --- DH & I have/are moving ourselves & everything's been dizzying since April. Just now have a chance to catch my breath once in a blue moon. We will be building a house on 5 ac. we bought so there's more dizzying, busying to come & I'm not exactly "with it" mentally. Try to follow me.....
I went to All Things Plants for my other gardening groups (mostly) (except the ones I forgot to do yet) LOL! Couldn't find the daylily group recognizably .... opened a new tab & went to Cubits where I went to the daylily discussion & tried to get a link to it on All Things Plants.... but now I have 2 Tabs open & both say All Things Plants. Have I completely lost my mind or is this some computer magic & I'm already moved over? I know I sound like a ditz at the moment but one second my mind is on moving, buying, drawing plans, builders & building, selling the old house & then I try to follow this move. HELP!
BTW, move is to Lake City, Fl. & I'm going to be doing lots MORE daylilys!!!!!!! YAY! Now if we can just get the house done so those daylilys can become a reality......

Thanks, Ann

Two ways you can find the Daylily Forum -- and yes, you are on the forum that was moved from cubits - so technically you are here --

Once you are at All Things Plants ( or ATP for short) for your other gardening groups, go up to the top and click the "Forums" tab. That will take you to a list of all the discussion forums here at ATP. Scroll down a ways, and you will come to the section for different types of plants, and you will find the Daylily forum there. Once there, you can click on the right side, the "Watch this Forum" to join the forum. Then the daylily forum will show up in your list of forums.

Also, did you know that you can click on the ATP logo at the top of the page and it will take you to your "home" page, where the threads you have watched, as well as the forums you are watching show up at the top of the page? That works at Cubits also.

I hope I answered your question. If not - or if you have any others, ask away!

Juli

Oh, I must be slow. I didn't realise I could do this either and join the Daylily Forum. I just been finding it in the list each time I wanted to come here. Unless there was an updated thread in my thread watcher. Then I got here from that. So I just joined now. Makes things easier

Glad to help!

Ah! Thank you verrry much! NOW I get it! And I had read elsewhere about clicking on the ATP logo & it listing your forums but evey time I did it I got ALL the forums available. I was not clicking on the "watch this forum" in the upper right corner.
Leave it to an Ohioan to lend a helping hand! After having met a # of Ohioans my DH & I have a saying: "We never met a person from Ohio whom we did not instantly take a liking to". And that's the truth! And if it didn't get so darned cold in that state we would have moved THERE!

Ann