Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Apr 28th, 2008
Recently a question was asked on the RootsWeb Help Mailing list about the problem of validating a page that contained the <NOBR> tag.
<NOBR>
(no break)
The NOBR tag ensures that a line of text does not wrap to the next line. This tag is useful for words or phrases that must be kept together on one line. [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Mar 3rd, 2008
In my wanderings around the Internet tonight, I came across an article by Chris Coyier called What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like.
I have an addiction. I can’t help but view source on every nice looking website I see. It’s like if you had x-ray glasses that allowed you to see any person you ever [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Feb 12th, 2008
A question I hear quite often on the genealogy mailing lists is “How can I get Google to find my site?” Susan Emerson has just written another great article Search Engine Friendly Design.
When looking into having a website created for your business or how you can improve your existing website’s results through [...]
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 have [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 16th, 2007
I was busy updating my website Genealogy Web Creations when I came across a resource I just had to share. Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers is a book by Sarah Horton. This book is a primer - a simple and concise introduction to the fundamentals and basic principles about [...]
Posted in Announcements, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 15th, 2007
Are you new to CSS? Confused about box models and how to create a CSS based page layout? This Introduction to CSS class is for you. You must be able to write or at least read HTML and familiar with the terms of web design to participate in this [...]
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 they [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 9th, 2007
For your Christmas enjoyment, I’ve just added three new templates to the Template Collection at Genealogy Web Creations. The Christmas Templates are written with XHTML coding and use an external style sheet. The package includes the three templates, the style sheet, all images and a dynamic web template for use with FrontPage 2003 and Expression [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 28th, 2007
A favicon is a small, 16×16 image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 20th, 2007
Tis the season to entertain and make merry and Cheryl Wise of by-expression.com is offering a Christmas Party Template for you to download. The dynamic web template and the images are free for you to use. She does urge you, to make a donation in whatever amount you feel comfortable with to VetDogs to help [...]
