We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a HAPPY, HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! Once again this year we will be exhibiting at the MANTS trade show in Baltimore, MD Jan 11, 12 and 13. Find us at Booth 2001 in the far back right corner of the show. A lot of regulars enter the show …
Happy New Year 2012!
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a HAPPY, HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! Once again this year we will be exhibiting at the MANTS trade show in Baltimore, MD Jan 11, 12 and 13. Find us at Booth 2001 in the far back right corner of the show. A lot of regulars enter the show …
Season’s Greetings From Gardenware! (With an intro to something you might like to “give” yourself)
We at Gardenware would like to extend to you, our customers and prospective customers, our best wishes for the holiday season and a healthy, prosperous 2012. We have our fingers and toes crossed hoping our economy has begun to turn the corner in a positive direction. At a time when demands on finances are at their greatest, we thought you …
Season’s Greetings From Gardenware!
Season’s Greetings From Gardenware! (With an intro to something you might like to “give” yourself) We at Gardenware would like to extend to you, our customers and prospective customers, our best wishes for the holiday season and a healthy, prosperous 2012. We have our fingers and toes crossed hoping our economy has begun to turn the corner in a positive …
Here’s a HEADS UP on a great deal for a publishing and design program we use a lot and don’t hesitate to recommend.
For many years we have used Serif Software’s Page Plus publishing program to make all of our price lists, handouts and other promotional materials. We had used Microsoft Publisher for some time and I came across Page Plus and gave it a try. It did everything that Microsoft Publisher did and more. It was easier to use and it cost …
Are There QR Codes In Your Future?
Nursery Management Magazine’s newsletter for Sept 3 carries an article stating that in June 14 million Americans scanned QR codes. I don’t know how the statistics are compiled but the claim is that over 60% are likely to be male in the age group of 18-34 years of age and over 36% with an income of $100,000 or more. Click …
Version 10 users – Here’s new but overlooked time saving feature
To all Version 10 users: I owe you an apology for not pointing out and emphasizing a new feature that helps make adding new price lines easier, quicker and even more accurate. When entering new price lines you are presented with this screen… You could fill in the blanks to create a new price line but … note the word …
Plant Images for use with Gardenware: A discussion of sources
We hope that everyone who inquires about Gardenware or purchases Gardenware is aware that photographs of the plants are not included with the program. There are a lot of descriptions (close to 7500 of them) included in the program. Since the mid `90s, the Gardenware program has allowed the user to attach pictures to items in the libraries for printing …
“I Can’t Use My Photos! Everything worked last week. What’s going on?”
In the last few weeks we have received calls from Gardenware users who suddenly found that they could not get access to their pictures for printing them on Gardenware signs. In each case the operating system was either Vista or Windows 7. Also, in each case the user had stored their plant pictures in the Pictures folder that Microsoft so conveniently …
More Templates: Microsoft Word Templates for Garden Center “Groups”
As some of you know, Mary Lee and I owned and operated a garden center at the North Oregon Coast for nearly 30 years. One of our “perennial” issues was the pricing of groups of items such as succulents, ground covers, annuals, basket stuffers, perennials and others. We couldn’t, or at least didn’t want to price each plant. We tried …