Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Web Site
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Feb 14th, 2007
Last spring, RootsWeb introduced a new feature, called My Account, to its site. Since the RootsWeb staff has received numerous questions about this new feature, we decided to write a brief article explaining 1) what the new feature does and 2) how to sign up for and access it. First of all, My Account adds [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Feb 22nd, 2006
Adding a Family Group Sheet to your Genealogy Site A Family Group Sheet is one of the “fun” things you can add to your web site. Err, well, let me rephrase that. It’s fun to receive one — they often come unexpectedly and may contain a new treasure of information about your family. What is [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Feb 15th, 2006
Both new and experienced Web authors sometimes prefer WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing of their Web pages. The ability to see immediately how the page will appear in a browser can have definite advantages. RootsWeb has now added that capability to the resident File Managers on all user web servers: Freepages, [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 17th, 2006
Have you ever tried to validate your RootsWeb FreePages? One of the first error messages you might see is – No DOCTYPE found! Attempting validation with HTML 4.01 Transitional. The DOCTYPE Declaration was not recognized or is missing. This probably means that the Formal Public Identifier contains a spelling error, or that the Declaration is [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Jan 7th, 2006
PROBLEM: I just posted a new page, and no matter what I try I can’t get my (4%) margins to function, page goes border to border and is harder to read. The lower banner has picked up on my link colour/style, which is too big for the banner, so not pretty. (I use larger fonts [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 2nd, 2006
QUESTION: What is the max KB for a webpage? ANSWER: One of the important things to remember when designing web pages is their file size. The size of the page determines how fast it loads on the visitor’s browser window. Web pages can be made up of text, images (GIF, JPEG and PNG) and multimedia [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Dec 22nd, 2005
While written some time ago, this still applies today. How many trees do you have posted on-line? Early January is a traditional time when many of us decide to clean out our files and get re-organized. How about making a New Year’s resolution to clean up any duplicate family trees and redundant names within family [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Dec 22nd, 2005
Would you like to add some style to your WorldConnect Database results. Would you like those pages to look more like your genealogy web site? My thanks to Hugh Watkins for asking the question and Pat Asher for providing the answer on the Freepages-Help Mailing List. Examples: Hugh Watkin’s WATKINS LAPHAM 2005 database at WorldConnect [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 22nd, 2005
You’ve been collecting data on your family for years, and want to share what you’ve found. Or maybe you’ve just started researching your family and hope to find new cousins by putting your names on line. But where do you start? Have you requested space at RootsWeb FreePages? Be careful choosing your username. Once assigned [...]
Posted in RootsWeb and FreePages on Dec 20th, 2005
Ever thought you would like to be able to add images to your GEDCOM database or actual working hyperlinks? Now you can. For the tutorial with examples and screenshots go to: http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/worldconnect-and-html.html
