Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
Posted in Expression Web Tutorials, General Articles, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 27th, 2008
Web Album Generator F*ree Software
Someone on the FreePages Mailing List recommended Web Album Generator as free software to make web albums and photo galleries from your digital photographs. Curious, I decided to check it out as genealogists use lots of image files in working on their website. It is probably the first program I have [...]
Posted in Accessibility, General Articles, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 14th, 2007
Today I received an e-mail touting a new book and website hosting service that I consider not only spam but very poor advice for budding website designers and genealogists. My friend Tina Clarke wrote about it on her blog Bad Practices, Spam and Irate Web Designers.
After reading parts of their material and the methods they [...]
Posted in General Articles on Oct 3rd, 2007
According to Smashing Magazine:
“You never really know who is going to visit your web-site next. You have no idea which configuration will be used, what browser will be installed, which screen resolution will be in use. However, since you’d like to comfort most of your web users, you need to know their habits and the [...]
Posted in General Articles on Oct 2nd, 2007
You can never tell who might type your url into their browser. You also don’t know which browser they might be using or which version of that browser they might be using. All browsers may not render your site as you expect it to be seen or even want it to be seen. Viewing your [...]
Posted in General Articles on Sep 12th, 2007
Do you have virus scanning software installed on your computer? Do you regularly update it? Do you run any version of Microsoft Windows? Do you install the needed updates? If not, the bad guys are just waiting to get you.
Does your computer seem to be more sluggish than when you first got it? Do you [...]
Posted in General Articles on Feb 14th, 2007
A question came up not to long ago on the RootsWeb FreePages Mailing List about links not working. What could be the problem?
The first thing to check when your links do NOT work is whether the url of your hyperlink actually matches the files name. Does your link refer to MYPAGE.html while the name [...]
Posted in General Articles on Nov 29th, 2006
Using RootsWeb: Preventing Identity Theft Does Not Mean Hiding Your Ancestors
When I first published our family genealogy to the Internet, identity theft was not big in the publics mind. Since then it has become a very real fear. Information on those people who may still be living is not published [...]
Posted in General Articles on Oct 17th, 2006
UPDATE: Launching A WordPress Blog is a FREE EBook by Tina Clarke and Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP’s - FrontPage. Download it NOW.
blog (blŏg) Short for weblog, an on-line web-zine or diary (usually with facilities for reader comments and discussion threads) made accessible through the World Wide Web. - Answers.com -
My first attempt at creating a [...]
Posted in General Articles on Dec 22nd, 2005
By Ted Pack
I love genealogy query boards. I work as a computer programmer. In my work I give advice about things that probably will sound like geek to most of you — intentional denormalization, common record definition sand license-plate primary keys.
Getting my clients to take my advice is like pushing a 600-pound bag ofJell-O uphill. [...]
Posted in General Articles on Dec 20th, 2005
Genealogy is more than names, dates, and places. It’s putting some “meat on the bones” of our ancestors or even present day relatives. I wrote this on July 29, 2005. I hope it puts some “meat on the bones” of my husband who is also my best friend.
Battle of the Berry Bushes
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