Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
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 [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 16th, 2007
Have you been searching for a website template you can use to design your genealogy website? There are lots of free templates out there, some specific for genealogy, some not. Some of these are free and some are not. Most free templates require a linkback to the site offering them. REMEMBER: All templates are NOT [...]
Posted in Expression Web Articles, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Sep 26th, 2007
How can I create a hyperlink to a specified place in a document? This question comes up frequently on some of the RootsWeb lists. When you create a hyperlink, the default location is to go to the top of the document you are linking to. But suppose you want to go to a specific part [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Sep 20th, 2007
A simple and free tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can also add color gradient effect for all of your stripes. From Smashing Magazine
To try out this neat tool visit Stripemania
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Aug 19th, 2007
I’m always on the lookout for new tools and tips what can help you with designing web pages. On CSS Juice I came across 20 Popular CSS Online Tools and Generators and decided to give it a try. I used the style sheet from Genealogy Web Creations . I picked one of the tools at [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Aug 17th, 2007
If your viewer arrives at a page that does not exist on your site, what will they see? A generic 404 error page?
The 404 page is the page displayed if someone tries to reach a page on your website that does not exist. Most of the time, it’s because the visitor [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Aug 14th, 2007
An interesting article on using XHTML templates to give you a quickstart on website design. A collection of sample css and xhtml templates the author uses: Read Quick Start Your Design With XHTML Templates
“Anyway, before I got smart and started using customized CSS and XHTML templates, I usually found myself opening up prior projects just [...]
