[Guidance Notes for different categories of contributor]

Adding to Gardenvisit.com

We invite you to:

To Review and Rate Gardens, click the Give a Rating button on any Garden Finder page
To Review and Rate Garden Hotels, click the Give a Rating button on any Garden Finder page
To Comment on pages in eArticles and eBooks, click the Comment button
To Add a Garden, click the Add-Garden button and use the webform to submit the information (there is no charge for listing gardens, but they have to be approved before they appear)
To Add a Garden Hotel, click the Add-Hotel button and use the webform to submit the information (there is no charge for listing hotels, but they have to be approved before they appear)
To Add a Photograph of a garden, a garden hotel, click the Upload-Photo button (and please remember to enter the name of the garden/place)
To Create a Page on Garden-related Business (garden product, garden nursery etc), click the New-Page button and use the webform to submit the information (there is no charge for creating your own page but we do charge for advertising elsewhere on the Gardenvisit.com website)

Thank you for your contributions, and for helping to maintain Gardenvisit.com as great information resource for the history and design of gardens and landscapes.

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Gardenvisit.com Community

Contributing reviews and other information to Gardenvisit.com

We invite users of this website to join the Gardenvisit.com Community and contribute information: reviews, photographs, details of gardens and hotels, historical information, questions etc by loging in as a reviewer or a stakeholder.

Login as a reviewer

We invite comments from all our users (though we have to ask them to login, with a valid email address, to avoid spam). Once logged in, you can write reviews, make comments and ask questions. We call this being a Reviewer. As on most web forums, other community members can comment on your comments but cannot change what you have written. Hyperlinks to other websites cannot be included in reviews.

Login as a stakeholder

Gardenvisit community members can also ask to become stakeholders. In addition to writing reviews and comments, stakeholders can have their own pages on the Gardenvisit website on which to write text, publish images and insert hyperlinks. For example:

- a garden owner can create a page about their garden or add opening times and a link to an editorial page about their gaden

- the owner of a garden or landscape-related business can write a page about their business. The business could, for example, be a design office, a garden hotel, a nursery or a product supplier. There is no charge for this service, because it is a contribution to the community. Other users will be able to make comments but not change your text.

- an individual with a special interest can request a new page on ths subject. Only the website editors will be able to change this content but community members will be able to add reviews and comments.