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"Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men."

-Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin

There are a lot of great garden design software packages on the market today. They can help you design and visualize your garden. To add to this, you can also create such things as your house, deck, patio, fence and ground cover. Most of the garden design software is actually quite easy to use and you will not need to have any architectural or landscaping experience in order to use it.

This article on the topic "garden design software," is designed to be a brief review. If your are still hungry for more knowledge on the topic, see our handy search ideas at the end of the article.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the topic:

"Computer-aided garden design describes the use of CAD packages to ease and improve the process of garden design. Professional garden designers tend to use CAD packages designed for other professions. This includes architectural design software for the drafting of garden plans, 3-D software and image-editing software for visual representation. But tailor-made computer-aided design software is made for the amateur garden design market. It contains some of the functionality of the more advanced programs, packaged in an easy-to-use format."

Use the Helpful Wizard

While all of this may sound as though it is difficult to do, most garden design software comes with a wizard that can help you get started. The wizard will help you to quickly add houses, decks, ponds and everything else that you will need in order to complete your garden.

Usually there is also a large selection of plants and tress available in this wizard for you to choose from. These are in the form of highly detailed 3D models instead of as a regular picture. This makes them look very lifelike, even if you view them close-up. You can mix and match different foliage and experiment with various placements before coming to a final decision - all with just a click of your mouse.

Advantages of 3D Graphics

Most of this software is available with 3D graphics so that you can walk around your property in photo realistic 3D. This will allow you to experience your garden design even before you actually create them. Some software will even allow you to see what the different types of lighting will do to your garden; it is like you are really there.

Once you are sure that you have something that you would like, you can show your friends and family what your ideas are. This will also come in handy if you are hiring anyone to do this work for you because you can show them exactly what you want with accurate dimensions, scale and placement that are relative to your house and landscaping.

Regardless of what type of garden design software program you choose to use, it should offer free technical support and a 30 day money back guarantee. The really good garden design software programs will have a complete user's guide integrated in the program but it is still very useful to be able to email or call technical support toll free.

If you found this article helpful, but are looking for more, here are some handy search tips:

1) The Library - don't forget books, they are packed full of information

2) Catalogs - There are thousands of catalogs on every topic imaginable

3) Local stores - depending on the store, educated employees can be a great resource

For more information on garden design software visit http://www.GardenDesignBasics.com or visit http://www.TheCleverGardener.com

Just going to show that they don't release new versions for nothing, Microsoft SharePoint Services version 3.0 is loaded with many features that were unavailable in version 2.0. One of which, is the all mighty Recycle Bin.

Now, even though it is believed that the Recycle Bin is a standard feature on all software, it hasn't always been that way. In version 2.0 of SharePoint Services the Recycle Bin was absent, meaning that if you removed an item from the Portal, it was gone, and the only way to get it back was to have your SharePoint host restore the whole site from backups if you didn't have another local copy to upload. It was kind of dangerous when it came to removing files.

The Recycle Bin is set up for two stages, the first stage is the first time the document or image or list item is deleted by a user and put on "hold." In this stage the deleted document can still be retrieved but only by the user that made the deletion. The second stage is called the Site Collection Recycle, where only site Administrators can access its contents.

To access your Recycle Bin contents, here's what you need to do:

In your site, click on Site Actions then Site Settings.
On the Site Settings page, under "Site Collection Administration" click on Recycle Bin

With SharePoint Services 3.0 you have some setup options with the Recycle Bin, including how long each stage of the Recycle Bin will hold content as well as space quotas for the second stage. The space quota setting is important, because if you are in a shared hosting environment, content within your Recycle Bin will count and eat up disk space.

Dedicated hosting Administrators have access to all the settings, to be able to adjust content hold time as well as space quotas. If you're in a shared SharePoint hosting environment, talk to your service provider about creating custom settings, if their default settings do not work for you. In the case of my hosted SharePoint site, both stages of my Recycle Bin are held for 30 days, and I contacted my service provider to have my space quota on my second stage be no more than 50%. (I'll admit I'm a bit of a worry-wart for losing precious documents.)

Either way you look at it, the Recycle Bin is a fantastic feature, and a great safety net for saving documents.

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Today with E-banking and E-commerce becoming more mainstream; the services that banks, processors and their affiliates are able to offer make breaking the mold of local and domestic processing an easier and more seamless integration for merchants. This does not mean that domestic banks are suffering and local vendors will eventually stop using them. Web hosting companies are seeing a lot more businesses than usual come to them as vendors to either supplement their existing business or start up and maintain a new entity. Websites are funnels for advertisers, satellite industries and support businesses like banking and customer support. The hosting companies are really doing a lot of work for free so that not only their main client (the merchant) can do business, but also several other companies can make their money. This is fine, but what if you are a hosting company that sets up E-commerce websites for businesses every day only to send them packing off to a search engine to find credit card processing or can't even answer the question?

Merchant service providers, processors and banks see the forest for the trees in that website hosting companies can be a great referral and affiliate source for them in ultimately obtaining new business. Why give the business away when you can refer it to a paying partner? Processors that deal with multiple banks naturally are able to achieve superior results through excellent rates, custom tailored processing solutions and services that customers may not have thought were available through their current or even any bank or processor. Processors are able to pay commissions to web hosting companies for the leads, and with website optimization becoming increasingly difficult; these fees often prove to be a more calculated expense with a higher rate of return than the processor or merchant service provider climbing the ladder to the first page of a search engine. Merchant service providers interact with several processors, who in turn interact with a number of banks. Likewise banks and merchant service providers foster relationships where the processor is the last piece of the puzzle when the deal comes together. As there are a number of scenarios, any one of these ultimately benefits merchants and the web hosting company that brought them to a processor or merchant service provider first. Merchant service providers typically are on the front line in the credit card processing battle. They deal with new customers every day and are able to gauge the ultimate success of the processing relationship and in turn match them with a processor and/ or bank that will foster the most seamless, quick and least cost intensive credit card processing solution for their customers. For web hosting companies flat rate referrals are only the beginning; high volume, high dollar merchants referred to merchant service providers often rate a percentage commission which can add up quickly. There are a lot of variables when it comes to these relationships, and for web hosting companies, researching the right merchant service provider will improve your customer relations and offer you a niche' in the market.

Jennifer Loganathan is the President and CEO of Stradafee Limited. Stradafee is an electronic payments company as well as an eCommerce and Internet merchant account provider. Merchant accounts make it possible for businesses to provide online credit card processing For more information on credit card processing visit http://www.stradafee.com