DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – All-America Selections, a non-profit organization known for trialing and promoting superior garden-performing flowers and vegetables, announced this week that it has reconfigured its website with a fresh, modern design to launch the celebration of the organization's 80th anniversary this year.
This new website sports a crisp, clean design to match the recently introduced new logo, while giving consumers, garden writers and other site visitors a complete picture of what the All-America Selections organization encompasses. Along with more AAS Winner images, the new website features line drawings of some past AAS Winners that can be used as coloring pages. These can be found in the “Image Center” under the file format of Coloring Pages.
As with sister-organization National Garden Bureau’s website, the AAS site features a “My List” option, where visitors can select their favorite AAS Winners and add them to a printable shopping list.
Especially valuable to garden centers, extension agents, public gardens and others are the downloadable and printable signs, brochures and presentations found in the “Signs and Brochures” section. These tools are there for anyone interested in explaining the AAS Trialing process and/or promoting the AAS Winners to their customers.
In the ever-evolving world of social media, there are several new tools on the website to promote social sharing: a Mee.bo tool bar at the bottom of the screen allows for easy social-sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg and more. The icons at the top of the main page make it easy to find All-America Selections on Facebook, Twitter, Slideshare and Delicious. On the AAS Winners page, when viewing each individual winner, users can now easily share that variety on both Twitter and Facebook.
To find one of the almost 200 AAS Display Gardens, organization programmers have implemented the Google Maps feature that shows exactly where each Display Garden is located in North America. In addition, they've added a sortable list of Display Gardens and Trial Grounds under each of those tabs.
For the first time ever, AAS is listing its Trial Judges under the “About Us” tab to give them the credit they deserve for the time they spend judging AAS entries. AAS Judges still have their password-protected area within the website, where they can download their score sheets, evaluation forms and other AAS judging information.
For more information, contact Diane M. Blazek at dblazek@aas-ngb.org.