Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
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 password [...]
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 page [...]
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 [...]
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 two [...]
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 not [...]
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, WWW, [...]
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 not using [...]
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 [...]
