Make Your Own Flower Map - A Metaphor for Growing Your Writing Business
It’s All Code - From Little Things, Big Things Grow
This is a flower map of my website generated by a computer. Make your own at Websites As Graphs.
This reminds me of a flower, tangents, connections, the evolutions of ideas, word patterns, brain sparks, communities, planning, spontaneity, stream of consciousness, networking and growth. Thanks to My Time for Tea for the flower map link.
Make Your Own Flower Map
Just type in your web address and sit back and watch it build in front of you. Grab a cup of tea, and watch as the pictorial representation of your site unfolds. In the original large format, it is quite a picture. It takes a while, and while it stems from impersonal code, it also represents the viral nature of the web, and the potential reach of your writing business.
And if you do the exercise again in a few months, your flower will have grown, just like your writing business. Keep writing. Keep blogging. Keep growing your business.
What Do the Colours Mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
Hi, Yvonne,
Thanks for the link to the flower map. My computer wouldn’t let me link to the map site so I just took a picture of my screen with my own map on it. (That’s how low-tech I am!)! I experimented doing it with my Photosite address and I was amazed at how the combination of colors differed. By the way, got your address from the 2000 bloggers.
Princess
Hi Princess
It’s pretty cool, isn’t it? I did it the same way you did, and then did a crop and resize. The colours are
much more vibrant in the full size version, but too big for my page. It was fun and interesting, though.
Thanks for stopping by and also for letting me know how you arrived here. That’s always interesting to know.
Yvonne
Hi! My Aunt Princess referred me to your site. She’s right when she said I might be interested in your site.
Thanks for sharing this cool flower map generator. It’s amazing to see it grow on screen. It’s still growing as I write this comment.
Hi Rach
I like the idea of a “flower map” much better than the official term, “websites as graphs”. Seeing it grow and
blossom right in front of you is cool. I found it quite calming actually. Thanks for visiting.
Yvonne
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