At 09:52 AM 5/23/2011, David McLeod wrote: >have converted a GEDCOM file to html and uploaded an html file called >"surnames". There are other files named "index", "notes" and "people". The >surnames list now appear on my sit but when I click on "view" I get a list >of surnames. However, when I click on a name I get an error message. > >"We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available" ======== Make sure the files are where the link says they are AND that the file name is correct. ACKLES and ackles are not the same. pat

I have converted a GEDCOM file to html and uploaded an html file called "surnames". There are other files named "index", "notes" and "people". The surnames list now appear on my sit but when I click on "view" I get a list of surnames. However, when I click on a name I get an error message. "We're sorry. The page you tried to access is not available" Here are the links in question http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi?cache=212276 and then when I click on "surnames" I see this page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/surnames.htm but when I click on the name I get this http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcleodplus/index/x0000002. htm#BLOCKLEY Thank you David

At 09:40 PM 5/22/2011, you wrote: >I have a tree at Rootsweb. I have also been granted free web pages. > >All is want is simple steps on how to convert my ged file to html so >I can upload it. > >My goal is this -- if anyone Googles Bill XYX they till find Bill >in my web site. > >I cannot find instructions on how to do this . The instructions for doing that will come with your genealogy program and will differ somewhat from program to program. That is not however, the best way - at least in my opinion - for displaying the information from a GEDCOM file. Using WorldConnect is better for that. You can also download my free ebook on working with RootsWeb FreePages sites. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/rootsweb-freepages-ebook.html pat

If Freepages is not for genealogy why do they have a category named "genealogy_html"??? To give a good answer to the OP's original question- Most genealogy programs have a function to create a website from the database. Some are better at it than others. For example: A program named Gramps creates a very nice site, but it is impossible to edit it after it's created. The only thing you can do is create a whole new site and upload it. PAF creates a nice site that is easy to edit after it's created. Look in categories in your genealogy program under something like "Tools" or "Reports". Might take a bit of looking to find. On the other hand there are some programs that will create web sites directly from a GEDCOM. The one I used when I created my original site years ago was called GED2WWW. The site is simple and easy to edit and add material to with any web page creator software. It appears that GED2WWW is no longer being "supported, but it can still be found if you Google around a bit. There are many others available. Google is your friend. Most of these programs are free to use. On 05/23/2011 07:54 AM, Heidi Utley wrote: > Hi Carol, > > You should upload your ged file (family tree) to: > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/. It is the address for World Connect. The > instructions are on that site. > > Your Freepages are not for your family tree, but for creating a website > (HTML). Do you have a web editor program such as FrontPage, Dream Weaver, > Expression Web or Nvu etc.? If you have such a program you can create your > web site and later upload it to your Freepages. > > Please feel free to contact me if you have further questions. > > Kind regards, > > Heidi Boos-Utley > E-mail: hutley@greenhills.net > URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~heidisfamily > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carol Sisson McLeod"<mcleod7cs@sympatico.ca> > To:<Freepages-Help-D@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 8:40 PM > Subject: [FreeHelp] please help > > >> I have a tree at Rootsweb. I have also been granted free web pages. >> >> All is want is simple steps on how to convert my ged file to html so I can >> upload it. >> >> My goal is this -- if anyone Googles Bill XYX they till find Bill in my >> web site. >> >> I cannot find instructions on how to do this . >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

Hi Carol, You should upload your ged file (family tree) to: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/. It is the address for World Connect. The instructions are on that site. Your Freepages are not for your family tree, but for creating a website (HTML). Do you have a web editor program such as FrontPage, Dream Weaver, Expression Web or Nvu etc.? If you have such a program you can create your web site and later upload it to your Freepages. Please feel free to contact me if you have further questions. Kind regards, Heidi Boos-Utley E-mail: hutley@greenhills.net URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~heidisfamily ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Sisson McLeod" <mcleod7cs@sympatico.ca> To: <Freepages-Help-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 8:40 PM Subject: [FreeHelp] please help >I have a tree at Rootsweb. I have also been granted free web pages. > > All is want is simple steps on how to convert my ged file to html so I can > upload it. > > My goal is this -- if anyone Googles Bill XYX they till find Bill in my > web site. > > I cannot find instructions on how to do this . > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have a tree at Rootsweb. I have also been granted free web pages. All is want is simple steps on how to convert my ged file to html so I can upload it. My goal is this -- if anyone Googles Bill XYX they till find Bill in my web site. I cannot find instructions on how to do this .

> Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display > in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just > one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my > computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ for ff http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/toolbar/ for ie Tina F ree Expression Web Toolbar - Expression Web and Web Design Resources http://frontpage-to-expression.com/expression-web-community-toolbar.html Will work in FireFox IE and Safari and Chrome

You can still get this http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Also google FF addons and in search for Web Developer Tool bar. HTH Best wishes, Jill http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ -----Original Message----- From: freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rod Dav4is Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 5:02 PM To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Testing Web Page Display hmmm... I remember this, too. I'd like to know what happened to it. Neil: Perhaps it would be best to just display thumbnails of the pix, with a click on the thumbnail to display the full-size picture. -R. On 2011-05-22 09:28, Neil A. Boyer wrote: > When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be > viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see > an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor > with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid > scrolling. > > > > Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Little Nine Partners Historical Society Trustee, Webmaster, Lifetime Member http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I agree with Billie -- too many screen sizes now and no doubt many more to come. I can't imagine anyone looking at my local history website photos with an cell phone (or whatever) so I make them all about 900px wide. Some of the group photos, where size is important, I will show twice -- on the main page it will be 900 px or less wide and then I provide a link to a full-size version which might be two or three screen sizes wide. See[1]http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/ashbury.htm for an example. Charlie Dobie. At 11:20 AM 5/22/2011, Billie Walsh wrote: --snip-- Neil, your fighting a losing battle. In todays world the only way you could accomplish this is if there is some way to resize images on the fly as pages are downloaded. With people using everything from cell phones to 20+ inch monitors, with resolutions all over the place, you will not be able to get images/pages to show without scrolling sideways. My advice is to set your pages up for a good look at a median size and just let it go. I generally try for a page width of 800 to 900 pixels, if I use a fixed width rather than a percentage, and images in the 600 to 700 range. That seems to give a nice balance. On 05/22/2011 08:28 AM, Neil A. Boyer wrote: > When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be > viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see > an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor > with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid > scrolling. > > > > Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - [2]www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1375 / Virus Database: 1509/3653 - Release Date: 05/22/11 Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com References 1. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/ashbury.htm 2. http://www.avg.com/

hmmm... I remember this, too. I'd like to know what happened to it. Neil: Perhaps it would be best to just display thumbnails of the pix, with a click on the thumbnail to display the full-size picture. -R. On 2011-05-22 09:28, Neil A. Boyer wrote: > When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be > viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see > an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor > with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid > scrolling. > > > > Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Little Nine Partners Historical Society Trustee, Webmaster, Lifetime Member http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/

I know I said I would refrain from posting on this list, and I will undoubtedly get blasted for this post as well. But, I just had to add my $0.02 worth on this subject. Neil, your fighting a losing battle. In todays world the only way you could accomplish this is if there is some way to resize images on the fly as pages are downloaded. With people using everything from cell phones to 20+ inch monitors, with resolutions all over the place, you will not be able to get images/pages to show without scrolling sideways. My advice is to set your pages up for a good look at a median size and just let it go. I generally try for a page width of 800 to 900 pixels, if I use a fixed width rather than a percentage, and images in the 600 to 700 range. That seems to give a nice balance. On 05/22/2011 08:28 AM, Neil A. Boyer wrote: > When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be > viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see > an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor > with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid > scrolling. > > > > Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid scrolling. Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen.

Contrary to what I wrote in my previous post, the solution I gave will only work in Firefox. This is another case of not all browsers being equal and the difficulties involved in creating one style to fit all. I'll get back a little later with hopefully a global solution. Barry On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Barry Carlson <barrycarls@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, May 21, 2011 2:25 AM (UTC+12) > David wrote:- > > On my FreePage, > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ryderancestors/, > > I have 4 boxes on the index.html page for the 4 principal surnames in my > and my wife’s ancestry. They are placed as I want them in IE 8, Firefox 4, > Chrome and Safari, but the bottom two boxes overlap the bottom RootsWeb > banner. I don’t know how to fix that. > ------------------------- > David, > > There a number of ways to fix the problem of clearing floats, but in your > case, and as the floats are contained withing the Rootsweb generated > #userContentFP page div, the following will fix the problem in all > browsers:- > > <style type="text/css"> > #userContentFP {overflow:hidden; margin-bottom:30px;} > </style> > > You already have test facility for styles in the head of your page, so just > add the above style to it. > > Nothing is done to your content, and the Rootsweb container div is told to > do the right thing. Adjust the margin-bottom as required. > > Barry >

On Saturday, May 21, 2011 2:25 AM (UTC+12) David wrote:- On my FreePage, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ryderancestors/, I have 4 boxes on the index.html page for the 4 principal surnames in my and my wife’s ancestry. They are placed as I want them in IE 8, Firefox 4, Chrome and Safari, but the bottom two boxes overlap the bottom RootsWeb banner. I don’t know how to fix that. ------------------------- David, There a number of ways to fix the problem of clearing floats, but in your case, and as the floats are contained withing the Rootsweb generated #userContentFP page div, the following will fix the problem in all browsers:- <style type="text/css"> #userContentFP {overflow:hidden; margin-bottom:30px;} </style> You already have test facility for styles in the head of your page, so just add the above style to it. Nothing is done to your content, and the Rootsweb container div is told to do the right thing. Adjust the margin-bottom as required. Barry

OK some problems with that in some browsers. This seems to work in all, albeit differently in some: < hr style="margin-top:6in"> -R. On 2011-05-20 08:28, lrlaskey wrote: > Rod, > > I am playing with the site using your suggestion. Where do you > suggestion placing the code? I put it between the rw footer table and > the ending div for the content. I also placed it before the ending > content div and got the same results. In Opera it only moves up one line > or so. Does it work for you and in what browser? This is not my site but > I am curious. > > Lorrie > > On 05/20/11 12:06, Rod Dav4is wrote: >> < br clear=all> -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Little Nine Partners Historical Society Trustee, Webmaster, Lifetime Member http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/

Hi, putting a < br clear=all> at the bottom of your page would force all floating objects to be placed before the break. -R. On 2011-05-20 10:25, David & Susan Ryder wrote: > Listers, > I appreciate the tone on this list, that makes a novice like me comfortable in asking for help. > On my FreePage, freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ryderancestors/, I have 4 boxes on the index.html page for the 4 principal surnames in my and my wife’s ancestry. They are placed as I want them in IE 8, Firefox 4, Chrome and Safari, but the bottom two boxes overlap the bottom RootsWeb banner. I don’t know how to fix that. > > Thanks, > David > sage -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Little Nine Partners Historical Society Trustee, Webmaster, Lifetime Member http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/

Listers, I appreciate the tone on this list, that makes a novice like me comfortable in asking for help. On my FreePage, freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ryderancestors/, I have 4 boxes on the index.html page for the 4 principal surnames in my and my wife’s ancestry. They are placed as I want them in IE 8, Firefox 4, Chrome and Safari, but the bottom two boxes overlap the bottom RootsWeb banner. I don’t know how to fix that. Thanks, David

Rod, I am playing with the site using your suggestion. Where do you suggestion placing the code? I put it between the rw footer table and the ending div for the content. I also placed it before the ending content div and got the same results. In Opera it only moves up one line or so. Does it work for you and in what browser? This is not my site but I am curious. Lorrie On 05/20/11 12:06, Rod Dav4is wrote: > < br clear=all>

David, The reason the boxes are displaying over the bottom rw banner is because the divs .upperleft, .upperright, .lowerleft and .lowerright are floated and positioned as relative. To fix the problem, add the following to your css file but check it at http://browsershots.org/ to be sure. There may be browser specific issues. Lorrie .upperleft, .upperright, .lowerright, .lowerleft {position:static;} #userContentFP {overflow:auto;} On 05/20/11 09:25, David & Susan Ryder wrote: > Listers, > I appreciate the tone on this list, that makes a novice like me comfortable in asking for help. > On my FreePage, freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ryderancestors/, I have 4 boxes on the index.html page for the 4 principal surnames in my and my wife’s ancestry. They are placed as I want them in IE 8, Firefox 4, Chrome and Safari, but the bottom two boxes overlap the bottom RootsWeb banner. I don’t know how to fix that. > > Thanks, > David > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Can you tell me how to get started on my free webpage? Thank you, Becky Adams