Genealogy Computer Tips & Tutorials

10 SEO elements all websites should have

Patricia Geary — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:50:11 +0000

As many of you know, I highly recommend the F REE SEO Training class offered by Cricket of GNC Web Creations. Whether you are a small business owner or someone who has a hobby web site or non profit website, you can benefit from her classes. Especially if you want the search engines to find [...]

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook CHRISTMAS SALE

Patricia Geary — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:41 +0000

The Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook is now available for your Holiday gift giving. Christmas Sale: Half Price NOW $22.00 regularly $45. Feeling frustrated about how to migrate from FrontPage to Expression Web? Our eBook will help you achieve your dream of an easy maintenance, trouble free, standards compliant website. It might seem [...]

Expression Web DWT Ebook - REVISED

Patricia Geary — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:25:18 +0000

Tina Clarke, a fellow MVP - FrontPage has just revised and made available for F REE download, her Expression Web DWT Ebook. The EBook includes instructions on how to make DWTs and prepare your site for their use. Some of the topics included are: Organizing your web in preparation Removing Formatting Shared Borders Read a more detailed description and [...]

12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean

Patricia Geary — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:44:28 +0000

Smashing Magazine is a site I vist almost on a daily basis. They have great articles on writing code, using CSS as well as resources for lots of F REE stuff. Today’s article is 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean by Chris Coyier. Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach [...]

Expression Web Tips, Tutorials, and Templates

Patricia Geary — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:43:13 +0000

My newest site, Expression Web Tips, Tutorials, and Templates in now live. All of my past tutorials on using Expression Web have been moved to this new domain along with some new ones. My Expression Web Tutorials EBook is now available as a F REE download. A few of the tutorials included are: Create a website in [...]

15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have

Patricia Geary — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:36:41 +0000

There are a lot of details to consider when designing and developing a web site. In reality, it can seem like an endless list - but if you look carefully you’ll see that there are certain elements that are more important than others, elements that are used consistently among the most successful sites. With that in [...]

Essential Web Developer Tools

Patricia Geary — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:32:56 +0000

I am always on the lookout for good tools to use in developing websites. Today I came across Essential Web Developer Tools (Validation, Browsers, Transparent PNG’s and More) by by Selene M. Bowlby. Some of the tools she mentions, I already use, some are new. Screen Resolution / Browser Size setmy.browsersize.com has two services being “Size [...]

How Would You Recommend a Novice Get Started Using CSS?

Patricia Geary — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:04:10 +0000

I just finished reading the article How Would You Recommend a Novice Get Started Using CSS? by Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks. He says: I get this one a lot and it’s surprisingly difficult to answer. The problem is that the question doesn’t include the persons background, which will in many ways determine the best course of [...]

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Class

Patricia Geary — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:39:53 +0000

The next class has been scheduled to begin on January 11, 2009 and will last four weeks. The eBook is included as part of the class. If you wish, you may purchase the eBook separately. Updates for the eBook and the class schedules will be announced on our FrontPage to Expression mailing list Christmas Sale: Migrating from [...]

Find Broken Links

Patricia Geary — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:32 +0000

How many times have you visited a site and clicked on a link only to find it goes nowhere? How often do you check the links on your website to make sure they are still working? One of my favorite tools in the LinkChecker Addon available for the Firefox browser. Susan Emerson is one of the [...]