| Features |
Get an overview of the different features of our website:
Bromeliads.net is multilingual! The phpBB forum-software supports over 50 different languages so far, from which german, english and spanish are installed. As a non
registered guest you may switch the language via a dropdown-box in the upper left corner of nearly every page. Allready registered
users can setup the language permanently in their profile and the dropdown-box will disappear.
Choose one of the following links to get get more informations:
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| Home-Pages |
The Home-Pages are designed
to give a quick overview to new visitors of this site and to provide some basic informations.
- What are Bromeliads?:
The title says it all, a brief introduction to the plants of the pineapple-family.
- What is Bromeliads.net? :
A little bit about this website, our goals and who we are.
- Infos for Beginners:
Newcomers are kindly asked to check these sites first, before posting their questions at the
forum, a lot of them can allready be answerded here.
- Calender:
Events, lectures, exhibitions and fairs on bromeliads and other plant related topics
are listed and kept updated here. Unfortunately pure bromeliads events are rare and often
merged with orchid, cacti- or repitiles. That is the reason why we are listing such events
also. Users can add events to the list, which will be validated and released by the admins afterwards.
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| Forum |
The forum is the main
interactive part of Bromeliads.net and the heart of this website, the place
to find help and support when it comes to bromeliads.
Unfortunately, after months of heavy SPAM-attacks, we where forced to restrict
the permission to write posts to registered users.
Guests are still able to search and read all public posts on the board.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
- Our Search system will allow everyone to find
topics that he is interested in.
- All registered members are shown in the Memberlist.
- Usergroups are a function to grant special permissions to several users.
A list of all existing groups in this forum can be reached by clicking the
Usergroups button in the menu.
To find out more about usergroups check
this chapter in the user guide.
- New visitors can sign in to the forum via the
Register-Button.
- Login / Logout should be self-explanatory ;-)
The following functions are available once a user is registered:
- By clicking the Profile button
every user can access his personal custom settings. Password, email-address and other
personal informations can be set and changed here.
- The forum includes an email-like Private messages system. Users can exchange messages directly thru the
board. New private messages are shown at the upper menulist on every visit.
It is possible to let oneself get notified by email once a new messege has arrived.
- Every registered user has the opportunity to set and manage his very own Bookmarks of forum topics here.
- One of our newest features is the Chatroom. Users can share their knowledge
instantely.
The "Who is online" section, located in the footer part of the forum index page, indicates
which and how many users are currently in the chatroom.
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| Wiki |
The Bromeliad-Wiki, or simply
Bromwiki, a project to set up an encyclopedia all about
bromeliads, written collaboratively by people from all around the world, meaning that
anyone, including you, can edit almost any article. Bromwiki is based on the same
software as the well known Wikipedia
Project and designed as an addition to our Forum.
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| Documentation |
The Documentation-Section
contains, unlike the forum, predominantly static pages.
- Glossary:
When dealing with botany and plants, one cannot get around technical terms.
Our glossary is trying to compile the most important latin words and their explanations,
which are being used throughout this website.
- Links:
The WWW is a vast changing place. To keep track we are gathering links to interesting
bromeliad related websites in this database. Users can send in their links, which will be
displayed here, after approval by the admins (to avoid SPAM).
- Knowledge Base:
Here we are going to setup a database with articles on certain issues.
The gathered knowledge of the forum will be bundled and posted here.
HowTos and workshops on plantcare, propagation, pestcontrol and many more are about to come.
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| Infos |
Pages in the Infos-Section
are dealing with Bromeliads.net and its use itself.
- The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) can be found here......... and of course all the answers too. ;-)
- Need assistance for formating posts? Check the BBCode Guide
- We have also included and adjusted the entire
phpBB-User Guide.
All functions of the forum and phpBB are explained here in detail.
- In addition to the original phpBB-Software a bunch of modifications (so called Mods) have been installed to enhance the websites
functionality. This Database lists all mods that are beeing used on this site.
- The Credits-Page is dedicated to all those known
and unknown fellows out there, without whom this project wouldn't simply exist.
- Last but not Least: Our Imprint, because there
has to be one ;-)
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