Welcome to ATP, Rick!
Here's the ATP icon for accessing our Mailboxes. It's an open envelope in the upper left corner under the logo.
After you settle in and decide what your favorite places are in the website, there is a VERY handy feature along the left side of the screen: a floating, customizable menu bar. You can put shortcuts there to any site inside ATP or any Internet URL.
I set up a favorite seed vendor, the Weather channel's 30-day forecast, The ATP Member map, the "Lettuce Database" and seven other off-site links.
I find that I use that more than my browsers "Bookmark" feature, because it's so much easier to use. You can set yours up from your Profile (the head-and-shoulders icon two spots to the right of the Mailbox icon).
Profile |
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Less easy is the Signature block. You can squeeze in as many links as will fit. I try to use short labels separated by "~~" so I can fit in as many links as possible.
We have a map showing locations of members who've entered easily identified addresses.
http://garden.org/users/member...
It turns out to be easier (but not as much fun) to search this Member List and find members by their distance from a location you type in. The button for that is at the bottom of most ATP pages, "Memberlist". That spot also has info about the banner of the day.
http://garden.org/users/member...
For example, you have two ATP neighbors within 52 miles.
User Location Miles away
laurabrunning5 Gold River, British Columbia 27
kathirudko Black Creek, British Columbia 52
I'm South of you on the WA coast, north of Seattle.
I hope some of those are useful to you. See you around the site!
