Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Web Site
Posted in General Articles on Jun 29th, 2010
Thanks to Chris Hanscom of Unhandled Perception for making me aware of this neat program, Ninite Easy PC Installer Ninite lets you pick your favorite software from among an extensive list (Web browsers, messaging, media, images, documents, security, runtimes, file sharing, utilities, compression, developer tools and more), creates a batch installer for them and then [...]
Posted in Expression Web Articles, Expression Web News, General Articles, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 21st, 2008
Tables are used extensively by the genealogy community in both the layout of their sites as well as presently data for their viewers. Crafting CSS layouts is tricky. In this article, Kevin Yank introduces CSS tables (which, once IE 8 is released, will be supported by all major browsers). They promise to make CSS layouts [...]
Posted in General Articles, Troubleshooting Tips on Oct 3rd, 2008
Quite often when I am helping someone with their website, I will ask them to send me a screenshot of what they see on their computer screen. If they happen to have SnagIt or another screen capture utility, they will usually know how. Others have no idea. This came through on a mailing list I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 in any of my [...]
