Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Aug 14th, 2007
A recent article at SitePoint caught my eye. Site navigation is always a topic of interest. A decent menu system is important to any site. Lists are a natural way of providing site wide navigation. Styling them using CSS is easy.
“Unless you limit yourself to one-page web sites, you’ll need to design navigation. In fact, [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jul 28th, 2007
Check the Color Contrast of Your Website
“AccessColor tests the color contrast and color brightness between the foreground and background of all elements in the DOM to make sure that the contrast is high enough for people with visual impairments.” Read more
To conform with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, foreground and background color combinations should provide [...]
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 Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Oct 17th, 2006
Not Designing for Most Common Screen Resolution
When you are designing your Genealogy Web site, do you check you pages at different screen resolutions? Or do you look at it in your default resolution with your default browser and “hope” that it looks OK. If you have not checked how it looks at [...]
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, 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 content [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 1st, 2006
QUESTION: How can I tell if the spambots can “harvest” my e-mail address from my web page?
ANSWER: Fill out the form to check and see if the spambot can read the e-mail addresses on your page.
QUESTION: How can I scramble my e-mail address so the spambots cannot read it?
ANSWERS:
To make it more difficult for spam [...]
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 [...]
