Don't really know where this would go - but I think a great idea for this site would be as follows: to have the ability to post a public profile anywhere that displays a users pictures, articles, info, discussions, etc. with a personalized link that could go anywhere. Case in point - I sell bonsai sort of on the side. I also develop websites for a living, so I could create one from scratch that contains everything I need - however, this is such a great site, I would rather simply give people I sell trees to a link to my profile page on Bonsai Empire where they can go and read anything I write, see my pictures, and possibly join the site as well. This would be a great way to grow the community I think as well.

Basically, I want to start writing/submitting articles on care tips and growing tips for where I live. These would e very valuable to the people I sell trees to - and I would love to give them a link to my stuff on Bonsai Empire, which would increase your traffic as well.

Perhaps this is already possible? If not, would it be?

Start a new thread in the bonsai cafe and post a link there.
anyone who wants to go to your site and join can. I don't think this site needs to change. If we want to post tips here...we just do. we don't need to post a link to our site so people can read it there. we just post it here so everyone can simply read it.

What exactly are you missing?

You can add a gallery, submit articles, you do have a profile?

Perhaps I wasn't clear.... I like this site the way it is - the only suggestion I had was a way to link to a specific user's content on this site. If I wanted to give someone a link to read Bensai's content on Bonsai Empire, where they could click directly and read just my articles, and see just my pictures under that link - and every other user on this site had the same ability, to post a link to just their own content as sort of a personal portfolio. Would be really cool to use on facebook - if you wanted to show your friends pictures of your trees and articles, etc. I can see something like this increasing membership on this site because of increased interaction. Perhaps there is already a way to do this, and I just don't realize it.

You mean this:

www.bonsaiempire.com/gallery/gas-geven

Nice - that's half of it - is there a similar way to directly access a user's articles?