Category Archives: General Articles

Bad Practices, Spam and Irate Web Designers

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Patricia Geary

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 … Continue reading →

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Who Is Your Visitor? An Average Profile

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Patricia Geary

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 … Continue reading →

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Browser Tests Are Necessary

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Patricia Geary

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 … Continue reading →

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Are you a responsible computer user?

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Patricia Geary

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. … Continue reading →

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Case Sensitive URL’s

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Patricia Geary

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 … Continue reading →

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