RootsWeb.com confirms that I now am signed up for a 'freepage' "If this list is complete, click "continue" and we'll send you an email with instructions for completing the linking process. a.. Mailing List Subscriptions (2) b.. Freepages Accounts (1)" BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT =). If I 'named' it, I've forgotten what name I used, and if I didn't name it, where do I begin to look? Heeellllpppp! Thank you! J. King

If you go to Rootsweb home page and sign in in the upper right corner you will see "My Account". Your account" page will show you everything you are signed up for, mailing lists, web page accounts, etc. My listing is rather long but down towards the bottom it shows "Freepages Accounts" with your screen/account name and "View". Click on "View" and you will be taken to your page. If you haven't made your page yet the address will show in the bottom bar of your browser. If you go to http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi and sign in that takes you to "File manager" where you can create and upload pages to your account. On 12/08/2010 10:08 AM, JAK wrote: > RootsWeb.com confirms that I now am signed up for a 'freepage' > "If this list is complete, click "continue" and we'll send you an email with instructions for completing the linking process. > > a.. Mailing List Subscriptions (2) > b.. Freepages Accounts (1)" > BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT =). If I 'named' it, I've forgotten what name I used, and if I didn't name it, where do I begin to look? > > Heeellllpppp! > Thank you! > J. King > > ------------------------------- > 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 _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

Barry, Many thanks for your help in getting rid of the Rootsweb banners in the pop-up windows. I have another request for my page at <http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/hmcs-niobe-1911-crewlist.htm>http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/hmcs-niobe-1911-crewlist.htm Would it be possible to activate the sort when the user clicks on a cell within the table? Sorting re-sets the lines back to the top of the table, but it is a long table, so the user would probably have to scroll back down to the area of interest. For example, if the user finds a name of interest such as "McDonald", they might want to find out if there are others of the same name. Click on "McDonald" and have the table sorted on the "Name" field, but still present the original "McDonald" line in the same place so no scrolling is required. Thanks, Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com

Here's another of those utility type pages that I do from time to time. This one grew out of a thought I had about a better way to deliver webpages when a browser may not recognise a style property. Detecting the browser by reading its User Agent string doesn't actually help determine if it will support a particular property, and the best way is to interogate the browser and find if it will react to a prompt using that property. So what follows is a relatively short list of CSS2 styles that were not commonly supported until recently, and a longer list of those styles being developed for the CSS3 specification. As browser designers work on their interpretations and methods of achieving the desired effect, they prefix the nominal W3C style with their own in-house developer prefix, e.g. -ms- (Microsoft IE), -moz- (Mozilla/Gecko Firefox), -o- (Opera), -webkit- (Chrome and Safari), and -khtml- (Konqueror Linux O/S). Usually it is only once they feel confident about their design that they remove the prefix and use the W3C property e.g. -moz-border-radius will become border-radius, however sometimes they leave both properties running side by side. This webpage will show you which of the newer style properties your browser will support. If a developer prefix is shown on any style, it doesn't follow that it will not answer to the standard property, so in that respect it is best to apply all the prefixed styles followed by the standard style, and the browser will respond to the last one it recognises. To the right of the listings that your browser will provide, is a small note which uses the 'transform' style, and those browsers that don't recognise the style will not see the note. Rendition of this animated note is variable between the browsers and is best in Chrome 8 followed by Opera 10.64, Firefox 4.07 and lastly Safari 5. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/test/css-properties/ If you want to check what another browser is capable of, copy and paste the url to http://browsershots.com and make sure you select javascript 'enabled". The greatest CSS3 support is by Chrome 8 and least by IE browsers. Barry

Hi folks, I'm experimenting with pop-up windows and have a small complaint for how they appear on Freepages. Please see <http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/hmcs-niobe-1911-crewlist.htm>http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/hmcs-niobe-1911-crewlist.htm When you click on a "Note" link, it generates a pop-up window which is cluttered with the top and bottom RootsWeb and Ancestry banners. Is there any way to eliminate these banners in a pop-up window? Thanks, Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com

At 02:55 PM 12/4/2010, Jesse Davis wrote: >Cannot get the correct entries to connect FileZilla to update files to my >freepages site. >Too dumb to know what to enter in site manager boxes. ============= See if this helps http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/tutorials/filezilla-instructions.htm pat

Cannot get the correct entries to connect FileZilla to update files to my freepages site. Too dumb to know what to enter in site manager boxes. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1170 / Virus Database: 426/3296 - Release Date: 12/04/10

I came across this very informative little article which demonstrates how the box-model layout of divs can "now" be made positively and reliably in such a way that page can be made to flow and maintain column widths without worrying about widths of each div and the problems with floats. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/the-css-3-flexible-box-model/ In fact, columns can actually be made flexible! Works now in Firefox, Safari and Chrome using the developer prefix to the property, i.e. -moz-box-model: for Firefox -webkit-box-model: for Safari and Chrome Don't forget to have a look at the Demo page layout near the bottom of the article. Barry

On 12/2/2010 10:40 PM, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > The following site might prove helpful. On the surface it will give the > ip address of the computer used to access it but it also lists what > features of css3 and html 5 the browser used to view the site will support. > > http://fmbip.com/ IE 8.0.6001.18702 sure supports a lot less than Firefox 3.6.12 Ian Singer -- ========================================================================= See my homepage at http://www.iansinger.com hosted on http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10623894 All genealogy is stored in TMG from http://www.whollygenes.com Charts and searching using TNG from http://www.tngsitebuilding.com I am near Toronto Canada, can I tell where you are from your reply? =========================================================================

Further to my previous posting, I have made some 'adjustments' to the resizing backgound images script which enables it to perform in IE6 as equally as well as the other browsers. If the fullscreen mode F11 is used (don't forget to refresh the page by clicking F5) the background is automatically centered vertically with reference to the new window dimensions. Below are four links to screenshots in some newish and not so new browsers:- Firefox 3.6 - (uses 'background-size' CSS) http://countjustonce.com/test/resize-bg/images/firefox-36-ss.jpg Avant 11.7 - (uses IE engine and uses the bg-resizing script) http://countjustonce.com/test/resize-bg/images/avant-11-7-ss.jpg Internet Explorer 6 - (uses the bg-resizing script, and in ie6 - Fullscreen mode) http://countjustonce.com/test/resize-bg/images/ie6-ss.jpg Internet Explorer 6 - (800px x 600px, showing both scrollbars active) http://countjustonce.com/test/resize-bg/images/ie6-800x600-ss.jpg In the above shot, you'll notice that the image has been reduced in size and occupies all of the available window. Any cut-off is top and bottom due to the image ratio being 5:4 (1.25), and the screen ratio is 4:3 (1.33). Barry

List, The following site might prove helpful. On the surface it will give the ip address of the computer used to access it but it also lists what features of css3 and html 5 the browser used to view the site will support. Lorrie http://fmbip.com/

After having a look around to see what was available for resizing background images, I came to the conclusion that it would be simpler to develop something myself. Most of the jQuery/javascript methods I saw used huge resources for little or buggy results. I have used two background images - they look the same, except that one is 800x600px at 313KB, while the other is 1600x1280px with a file size of only 93KB. The smaller image is given to the W3C compliant browsers that know how to use background-size, while the larger is given to the IE browsers that currently know nothing about 'background-size'. You'll note the background has "bubbles" - they're there for a good reason, to check that the image was infact resizing correctly. Those using any of the up-to-date W3C browsers should be OK using the appropriate styles, while IE7 and IE8 are the only IE browsers that support this script. Buggy support for 'position:absolute' and 'position:fixed" styles are the downfall of IE5 and IE6. I had a look at Avant 11.7 (a popular alternative browser using the IE engine) and the http://browsershots.org snapshot showed everything as it should. Some browser dependant CSS using IE Conditional Comments is delivered where it should and a 1KB javascript file completes the job for the IE browsers. Actually, the page load for the W3C browsers is 3 times that required by Internet Explorer, but the time taken to download the larger image is compensated by the extra time required for the javascript to run in the IE browsers. The result which shows an opaque container 1000px in height is at:- http://countjustonce.com/test/resize-bg/index.html Check the View Source to see how little mark-up there is. If there is any interest, I'll make the necessary alterations to the javascript to enable it to work correctly on the Rootsweb/FreePages servers. Barry

On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:26 AM (UTC+13) Billie Walsh wrote:- > At least I think it is an interesting idea. > > When you use an image as wallpaper that is smaller than your screen size > you have the option to tile the image or "stretch", scale, the image to > fit the screen. I found what I think would make an interesting > background for a page but got to wondering about how one could make sure > the image would fill the window without tiling, repeating. The image > would have to be scaled on the fly either larger or smaller to fit the > window exactly. > > Is there some method that would make the image fit in the browser window > without repeating or leaving white space around the image? > --------------------------- Billie, Open the following page - http://countjustonce.com/flag/flag_strict.html in Firefox and click on the resize options in the top right corner. Is that what you are looking for? If it is, a small bit of javascript can be used to scale the image. Barry

On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:49 PM (UTC+13) Rosemary wrote:- > You may well be aware of this, but it was new to me - a way of making IE > use HTML5 until IE9 comes out and is widely supported: > > http://webdesign.about.com/od/internetexplorer/qt/html5-shiv-for-internet-explorer.htm?nl=1 > -------------------------------- Hi Rosemary, Many thanks for pointing me to that page. This just shows you that provided a browser is told how to do something in a way that it understands, then almost anything is possible! Some of you may have noticed, in pages I have posted in the last six months or so, that I have been using HTML5 mark-up. <!doctype html> is all that is required to put all browsers into Standards mode, and simplifying <script> and <style> tags by removing their "type" declarations is just one feature that all browsers accept without doing anything extra. The W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/ and http://validator.nu/ will both parse your page as HTML5 when presented with <!doctype html> tag. For the purists using other validators and XHTML Strict declarations, much of the extra markup required to keep those validators happy is now no longer required. In fact the majority of browsers are quite happy to accept the reduced mark-up, and its just the validator that "chokes". All that is required to start a page in HTML5 is:- <!--code> <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>HTML5 Page</title> <style>@import "mystyles.css"</style> <script src="somescript.js"></script> </head> <body> All my stuff! </body> </html> <code--> So, as many of you will notice, HTML5 is about "simplifing" mark-up and creating a user friendly environment for webpage designers. Thanks Rosemary. Barry

I had to do some research on that. On the surface it sounds promising but no IE other than IE9 supports it, and apparently none of the browsers I use daily do either. For it to be useful it needs to be something that works in all browsers. Seems kind of strange thinking about graphics as text files. Hard to wrap your head around. On 11/30/2010 11:48 AM, Lorrie Laskey wrote: > Billie, > > I don't have an answer. No doubt some external scripting would be > involved. The image though might need to be a .svg. There is some > support for them but I don't know by what browers. I played with one > recently and Opera supported it. > > Lorrie > > On 11/30/10 11:26, Billie Walsh wrote: > >> At least I think it is an interesting idea. >> >> When you use an image as wallpaper that is smaller than your screen size >> you have the option to tile the image or "stretch", scale, the image to >> fit the screen. I found what I think would make an interesting >> background for a page but got to wondering about how one could make sure >> the image would fill the window without tiling, repeating. The image >> would have to be scaled on the fly either larger or smaller to fit the >> window exactly. >> >> Is there some method that would make the image fit in the browser window >> without repeating or leaving white space around the image? >> >> > > ------------------------------- > 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 _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

Note that this styling of inter-letter spacing is not limited to headers. It will work with any text. -R. On 2010-11-27 21:17, Barry Carlson wrote: > Have you ever used letter-spacing in your headers? It's easy enough to use, > e.g. > > h1 > {font-family:tahoma,arial;font-size:1.5em;color:#d10000;letter-spacing:0.3em;text-align:center;} > > <h1>LOREUM</h1> > > But when you add an underline to it (text-decoration:underline) the last > letter also has extended space under it, in this case 0.3em, and the the > underline extends to take up the space. It is only a minor nusiance, but it > can be fixed by taking a different approach to how the underline is created. > Go to:- > > http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/test/heading-example.html > > - and the solution is shown, and the heading is now correctly centered. > > Barry > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Trustee and Webmaster Little Nine Partners Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/

Billie, I don't have an answer. No doubt some external scripting would be involved. The image though might need to be a .svg. There is some support for them but I don't know by what browers. I played with one recently and Opera supported it. Lorrie On 11/30/10 11:26, Billie Walsh wrote: > At least I think it is an interesting idea. > > When you use an image as wallpaper that is smaller than your screen size > you have the option to tile the image or "stretch", scale, the image to > fit the screen. I found what I think would make an interesting > background for a page but got to wondering about how one could make sure > the image would fill the window without tiling, repeating. The image > would have to be scaled on the fly either larger or smaller to fit the > window exactly. > > Is there some method that would make the image fit in the browser window > without repeating or leaving white space around the image? >

At least I think it is an interesting idea. When you use an image as wallpaper that is smaller than your screen size you have the option to tile the image or "stretch", scale, the image to fit the screen. I found what I think would make an interesting background for a page but got to wondering about how one could make sure the image would fill the window without tiling, repeating. The image would have to be scaled on the fly either larger or smaller to fit the window exactly. Is there some method that would make the image fit in the browser window without repeating or leaving white space around the image? -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

Hi Barry et al.! You may well be aware of this, but it was new to me - a way of making IE use HTML5 until IE9 comes out and is widely supported: http://webdesign.about.com/od/internetexplorer/qt/html5-shiv-for-internet-explorer.htm?nl=1 Kind regards, Rosemary Northumberland UK Email: rosemary@rprobert.co.uk Family History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/ Banburyshire Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I did not know you could do that! I would have added too much code by using the &nbsp; (non-breaking space) in the code every time. Thanks! Sheri aka. FamilyTwigs Indiana Trails To The Past Jackson County/INTTTP > h1 > {font-family:tahoma,arial;font-size:1.5em;color:#d10000;letter-spacing:0.3em;text-align:center;} > > <h1>LOREUM</h1> > > But when you add an underline to it (text-decoration:underline) the last > letter also has extended space under it, in this case 0.3em, and the the > underline extends to take up the space. It is only a minor nusiance, but it > can be fixed by taking a different approach to how the underline is created. > Go to:- > > http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bristowe/test/heading-example.html > > - and the solution is shown, and the heading is now correctly centered. > > Barry