Ian, If I understand what Dave and Allan have said in previous notes, the web pages with the nice green borders are just a front end which enables you to easily get to the scan you want. These pages will REMAIN but will just link to the new servers rather than the old ones. Hence as Dave has said, your transcribers will be unlikely to notice a difference (I believe they only difference will be the change of URL address on the bottom line of Internet Explorer as they move their cursor over the various links). The reason that dave says that nothing has changed is that behind the nice tables and cute green borders the image files are stored in exactly the same way just on a different server. Hope that helps Kevin. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Brooke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 June 2004 06:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Image servers Dave, Perhaps I'm totally mis-understanding this concept? When I visit the "existing" download page (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/scan-source2.shtml) I'm first required to select Birth, Marriage or Death and when I do this I get a nice table with a cute green border and the years down one side, Quarter etc and a single link (Usually "All Pages"), I click that and I either get a list of all the scans (pages) available or a superset showing "A-G, H-I" etc. With the new link (http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/) I get a crude list of all the years, I click one of those and I get another set of crude links ("Parent Directory", Births", "Deaths"), I click one of those and I get another crude list of Quarters, I click one of these and I get "Parent Directory", "UKD-01", I click that and I get "Parent Directory", "A-H", "I-S" etc, I click that and I finally get to the list of pages. That's five clicks I've had to do when I previously did two, there's no neat table, and I can see almost no resemblance to the current procedure. I'm also mystified. Everything seems to be changed and yet you say nothing has. Where am I going wrong? Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Mayall To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:09 PM Subject: Re: Image servers On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:27:32 -0600, you wrote: >More seriously could I please comment on the new link for transcribers ( http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/ ) - compared to the old download link this one is quite dire and I personally hate it. Please please don't go with this route, I dread the thought of explaining to trannies how to get at a page, I have enough problems with people transcribing the wrong page with the existing method but the new one is just awful. I have to confess that I am utterly mystified by some of the adverse comments about the transcriber download. Why am I mystified? Because this bit is *COMPLETELY* unchanged from the current setup! The existing front-end of a web page that avoids navigating the tree will be maintained, and the vast majority of transcribers will not notice the change. ==== FREEBMD-SYNDICATES Mailing List ==== To find out about the FreeBMD project please start at http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.710 / Virus Database: 466 - Release Date: 2004-06-23