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    1. Warning: WebTechs
    2. Leigh Compton
    3. Hello all. I have a funny (well, maybe not so funny) story to tell you. Seems that once upon a time there was a great website offering a terrific service to webmasters such as ourselves: www.webtechs.com This site provided an HTML validator which would read your web page and then report back any errors which it found. If your page didn't have any errors, they suggested that you put an icon ("checked by WebTechs") and a link back to their site. Being the computer professional that I am, I ran all my county pages through the validator and proudly placed the icon and link on them. Recently, the folks at WebTechs have gone off the Internet. I don't know what happened. Perhaps it just got too expensive to maintain the service and they couldn't sell advertising -- whatever. When the domain name was not renewed, an outfit in Denmark snatched it up and pointed it at their XXX-rated porno site. As you can gather, I spent a frantic hour last night removing all the links from my county pages. Fortunately, I was notified about the "problem" before I received any complaints from genealogists visiting my county sites. So, in case you might also have links to WebTechs on your pages, you'll want to remove them. If you still want an HTML Validator, use the one at the W3C (World-Wide Web Consortium): http://www.w3c.org -- and soon, RootsWeb will be placing its own validator online for the webmasters who have pages stored there. A couple of other sites provide validation as well. Regards, Leigh

    03/21/1999 08:57:15