Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Web Site
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 11th, 2009
A recent question on the RootsWeb Freepages Mailing list was: For some files on a Freepages site I’m in the process of developing, I would like to restrict the size of the page window to a fraction of the normal size. The problem is whether this is possible and, if so, how to accomplish it. [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Jan 7th, 2009
If you are using the RootsWeb guestbook, you already know that it does not validate. And it does not matter if you are using an HTML or XHTML doctype. Would you like to know to remedy that? Follow this step-by-step tutorials for both creating and validating your RootsWeb Guestbook. You can also make your Rootsweb [...]
Posted in CSS, RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Oct 17th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Jun 17th, 2008
Creating Your Own Freepage on RootsWeb By Jana Lloyd Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 11 June 2008, Vol. 11, No. 16 I have added notes/comments to this article originally written by Jana Lloyd. Hyperlinks have also been added for your convenience. My notes appear in red. Every month when I send out the Review, I [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on May 30th, 2008
RootsWeb recently revised the masthead banners that are displayed on all free hosted websites. If you are using the HTML Transitional doctype and your pages already validate, you should experience no problems with the new banner validating. If on the other hand, if your account is hosted on the FreePages server and you are using [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Nov 16th, 2007
A recent question on the RootsWeb FreePages mailing list asked about a template for a Pedigree chart written in html that could be posted on their web site. While I personally prefer to post my GEDCOM on WorldConnect and have it formatted as a pedigree chart, I have collected all of the links posted by [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Aug 31st, 2007
How To Get Your User Name Or Password From My Account One frequent question on the various RootsWeb Mailing lists, is how an I make changes to my wesite as I have forgotten my username and password. A recent article from the Rootsweb Newsroom tells you how. If you have forgotten your user name or [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jul 14th, 2007
Does your genealogy web site use frames? If so, this may cause you a problem with the search engines indexing your site. Google says: “Google supports frames to the extent that it can. Frames can cause problems for search engines because they don’t correspond to the conceptual model of the web. In this model, one [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on May 14th, 2007
Are you setting background and text color to your Web page? If not, you may not be happy with what your viewer sees. Many designers think that white is the default and that a background color is only necessary if white is not used. Many other designers think that a background color is not necessary [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on May 5th, 2007
My website has disappeared, what could have happened to it? I deleted some of the pages on my site, can I get them back? My hard drive crashed and I lost all of my files. Have you heard this or experienced this yourself? When was the last time YOU backed up YOUR website? A MUST-READ [...]
