Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
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 [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 20th, 2005
Adding navigation to your website is a MUST! After visiting many genealogy sites over the last few months, one thing I have noticed is that a number of them include only a home button and back button. This is especially true if the site has been created with a genealogy database program.
The more complex your [...]
