I used the rootsweb site to create a counter for my website. I added it to the very bottom of the coding on the Index.html page. I have gone to my website several times and the counter remains on "00001" It is also not visible on the page unless I scroll down a few lines. I tried a troubleshooting search to no avail, thus this post. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help. Barbara http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/

Just went to your site and now it reads 2. The counter reads a cookie so one can not change the count without clearing the cookies. But a new visitor will add to the count. Sent from my Kindle Fire In God We Trust

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:55:36 +1200, Barbara F Cozine <bfcozine@ptd.net> wrote: > ..... I do not know how to check for breaks and would love to learn how > to do so. Barry, Is it a difficult task to master. > ------------------------------------ Barbara, Checking for broken links is best done with a utility program. I use "Xenu Sleuth" which can be found under the download link at:- http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Check the other information available on that page, and if you need any further help, contact me direct. Barry

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:54:23 +1200, Barbara F Cozine <bfcozine@ptd.net> wrote: > Barry, Would you be kind enough to look and see if I fixed the broken > connections? Being a newbie, I am quite unsure how to do any of this. > -------------------------------------------- Barbara, Yesterday you had 31 broken links an today you have only five. The remaining broken links are:- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Cosyn/Cosyn%20Gerritsen%20van%20Putten_files/editdata.mso (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Cosyn/Cosyn%20Gerritsen%20van%20Putten.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Folklore/Folklore_files/editdata.mso (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Folklore/Folklore.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Old%20Mud/Old%20Mud%20Meeting%20House_files/editdata.mso (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Old%20Mud/Old%20Mud%20Meeting%20House.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Other%20Cozine%20Lines/Other%20%20%20Cozine%20%20%20Lines_files/filelist.xml (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Other%20Cozine%20Lines/Other%20Cozine%20Lines.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Service%20In%20The%20Civil%20War/Service%20In%20The%20Civil%20War_files/editdata.mso (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/Service%20In%20The%20Civil%20War/Service%20In%20The%20Civil%20War.htm The .mso or .xml file linked from each .htm file is the one that is missing. In the case of the .mso files (4), it would appear that the links should probably be to something else, e.g. an image, but you will need to check the file locally to work out what it should be. Barry

Thank you all for your help. I fixed my Table of Contents and was able to fix 26 of the 31 breaks that I had in my connections. I worked on the last five and reloaded the data hoping that would fix the breaks. I do not know how to check for breaks and would love to learn how to do so. Barry, Is it a difficult task to master. Barbara http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/

Barry, Would you be kind enough to look and see if I fixed the broken connections? Being a newbie, I am quite unsure how to do any of this. Pat, I am going through your ebook to try to learn. Thank you for your suggestions and for the ebook. Judy, Thank you for your comments, I tried to follow the folder set up and Ancestry the software I am using had other things in mind. I will continue to work on it. Billie, Thank you for your examples and suggestions.

Barbara, In my last email I noted some broken links, but neglected to say that the majority of your links were fine. The fact that you have successfully loaded your Ancestry Family Tree data to FreePages in the past, indicates that you are probably currently doing something differently, which may help to explain why you are now having trouble. Barry

On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:18:15 +1200, Barbara F Cozine <bfcozine@ptd.net> wrote: > <000501ce7070$3e3b12f0$bab138d0$@net> > > > My webpage link is > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/ > -------------------------------- Barbara, All those links you have created in your Ancestry Family Tree relate to the files on your computer. The page that you have loaded to FreePages shows those links, but you will need to create an "images" directory on your FreePages site, and load all the associated .jpg files and .htm files to it. Looking at the links on your "index.htm" page, they are all broken, as the required files are not on your web site, e.g. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/aqwn22.htm (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/aqwg22.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/cozine.ged (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/index.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/images/12002.jpg (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/images/sb120.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/images/23001.jpg (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/images/sb230.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/images/23002.jpg (not found), linked from page(s): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/images/sb230.htm ..... to name a few. Furthermore, you have a GEDCOM file which will need to be loaded to the Ancestry World Connect site at:- wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/‎ and a link created to it in your FreePages index.htm page. GEDCOM files are not permitted on FreePages. Also, I'm not sure if the Ancestry Family Tree program prompted you to save each image and its associated .htm file in the images folder. Normal practice would be to have all the images in a sub-folder to their .htm files. Its not important right now, but something to consider down track. Barry

On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:17:42 +1200, Barbara F Cozine <bfcozine@ptd.net> wrote: > I am using Ancestry Family Tree to organize my data and to make web > pages. > I am uploading my web page to rootsweb freepages using Core FTP software. > The problem that I need help with is how to add HTML hyperlinks to my > main > cozine.htm webpage. > --------------------- Barbara, Would you please provide the list a link to your FreePages site. Barry

I am NOT with it today. The first line should be: You can make the home page as fancy OR PLAIN or as you wish. And the promised link: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~billie0w/index.html On 06/24/2013 12:18 PM, Billie Walsh wrote: > Forgot to mention, in reference to an index page. > > You can make the home page as fancy or as you wish. Below is a link to > my home page. It isn't fancy and doesn't have much in the way of bells > and whistles. It contains links to my main family lines and other > information about them. There is also a link to the surname index > alphabetically. At the bottom are things I think might be of help to > researchers. > > -- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

In my message to Barbara, I noticed I have an incomplete thought::: "Let's say some)" Please ignore that. Judy

Hi Barbara, Each "category" on Rootweb's Freepages is by itself a "website" under your account name ~cozine So you can make multiple "webs" if you want to. On your computer, you should "match" the way Rootsweb, any Webmaking Programs, and FTP Programs "see" folders. So on your computer... My Documents (subfolder)....My Webs (subfolder)....genealogy (and if you use any other "category" e.g. "web" in freepages, then match those, such as) (subfolder)....history (subfolder)....family etc. etc. (Do you know if you use the Miscellaneous Web, it can act like a front door to all the other RW webs you make?) NOTE: If using Frontpage, you need to "make a web" with Frontpage and name it genealogy Each subfolder should have an "index.html" page inside it. You are using the "category" genealogy. So it will be.... My Webs (sub folder) genealogy (now you can make as many sub-folders and sub-sub and sub-sub-sub folders as you want. Let's say some) As an example genealogy (sub) cozine (sub-sub for cozine) images (sub-sub for cozine) aunt-mary (sub to genealogy) images (this would be images used on the main page or anywhere on your "website") (sub " " ) maps (sub-sub for maps) county (sub in genealogy) letters (sub-sub for letters) images Under the main folder, "genealogy" there must be index.htm or html (this is your "home page", "main page" to your website) ================== MS WORD Word makes terrible webpages because it adds several lines of code instead of short 'clean' coding. If at all possible, copy the text from a Word doc, put it in Plain Text Notepad (Windows Notepad NOT Word notepad). That will strip out all of Word's coding. Copy the plain text to another web making program. Add back in Bold, Italics, etc. Bold is bracket b bracket. Italics is bracket i bracket. To "end" each code line, you tell the program to 'stop' by using a forward slash before the command, so bracket slash b bracket. No spaces. Remove the dots in this example <...b>Text<.... /b> LINKS A link can be absolute or relative. An absolute link is like in a house (a web) going through the kitchen, dining room, living room etc. to get to the front door. OR to go to your house (website) to your neighbor's house (website). An absolute URL should point to another web site (like href=" http://www.example.com/theme.css") Note it starts with http://www.... Let's say you make this absolute link http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/index2.htm> maps/county/main-street.html Each thing between / / is a separate folder. A relative link is like having a magic transporter to go from the dining room right to the front door. You should use relative links within your site, say to take a visitor by transporter from your index page (home page, first page), over to the main page for your maps. A relative URL - points to a file within a web site (like href="/themes/theme.css") SEE http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_link_href.asp Look at a page you have where a link now works as an example. Look at a link that does NOT work. Look at how they are different. Fix the non-working one so it looks like the working link example. Malformed "C: links" A frequent error is to create a malformed link that points to a page on your computer. I call these "C: links" and I when I was new, I mistakenly made tons of these---because I tried to 'make a link' before I 'saved/named the html page'. These bad links start with C:/ and might look like this C:/administrator name(you)and more pathways into your computer/My Documents/My Webs/genealogy/page.html (or .jpg) The tell tale signs of a malformed link pointing to a page on your computer is it will have C: at the beginning. It will state somewhere in the line My Documents/ And the entire "bad link" will be extremely long. These kind of bad links will always be bad links until the page is linked using the correct href="/folder/page.html To avoid making these links, always SAVE/NAME a html page FIRST before starting to add links. Again, do strip any MS Word pages to plain text. You'll be glad you do it now, even though it's time consuming to do the work. Don't just copy from Word to an html editor--that does not strip out the Word coding. Judy

Forgot to mention, in reference to an index page. You can make the home page as fancy or as you wish. Below is a link to my home page. It isn't fancy and doesn't have much in the way of bells and whistles. It contains links to my main family lines and other information about them. There is also a link to the surname index alphabetically. At the bottom are things I think might be of help to researchers. -- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

I manage something like 30 websites. I keep a complete backup of what's online on my computer. My file structure has a main directory named "Freepages" and the structure under that looks like: books_html college-alumni_html family_html folklore_html genealogy_html genealogy_old history_html military_html misc_html religions_html school-alumni_html With the exception of genealogy_old that is the same file structure used on Rootsweb Freepages. Genealogy_old is what my old version of genealogy_html contained before I restructured it. There is no "genealogy_old" on the freepages server. Inside genealogy_html the sub-file structure looks like: DNA Maps Records census data harris index misc pictures index.html The top 9 are sub-folders that contain the exact data given in the name. Index.html is the index page for the site. This type file structure makes the site easy to maintain and make corrections/additions to any page because everything is easily found. When I first created my site I just dumped everything into one directory. That was fine when there were just a very few files but as time went by and the site grew it became almost impossible to work on the site. -- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

Thanks Barry. I did select FTP and then input genealogy_html in the dialog box and I got connected. Pages are uploaded. Tommy Michaels Williamsburg, Virginia, USA Researching Ballard, Booe, Davis, Duecker, Hughes, Lambeth, Michaels, Quinn, Sain, Sherrill, Sneed, Taylor, Trotter, Wammack, Webb Message: 3 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:15:10 +1200 From: "Barry Carlson" <barrycarlson@vodafone.co.nz> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] FTP help To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <op.wy5mvlch2mma7t@user-pc.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:04:31 +1200, Tommy Michaels <trmichaels@trmichaelscc.com> wrote: > I recently downloaded Win SCP to upload my web pages to freepages. > For the host name I input users.freepages.rootsweb.com. I input my > user name and password and attempt to login. Win SCP tries to login, > but after several seconds comes back with an error message "network > error, connection timed out". > > > I am using the correct host name? Is anyone familiar with Win SCP? > -------------------------- Tony, I suspect from the info you have supplied, that you should select the FTP option rather than the default of SFTP. Also, if you click on the advanced checkbox, you'll have the option of setting up your remote and local directory/folder. The best way of finding the available remote directories is to open the FTP with the details you have already provided, which will present you with the directories you have available. Barry

On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:04:31 +1200, Tommy Michaels <trmichaels@trmichaelscc.com> wrote: > I recently downloaded Win SCP to upload my web pages to freepages. For > the > host name I input users.freepages.rootsweb.com. I input my user name and > password and attempt to login. Win SCP tries to login, but after several > seconds comes back with an error message "network error, connection > timed > out". > > > I am using the correct host name? Is anyone familiar with Win SCP? > -------------------------- Tony, I suspect from the info you have supplied, that you should select the FTP option rather than the default of SFTP. Also, if you click on the advanced checkbox, you'll have the option of setting up your remote and local directory/folder. The best way of finding the available remote directories is to open the FTP with the details you have already provided, which will present you with the directories you have available. Barry

Re: <000001ce7081$15a4b150$40ee13f0$@net> I appreciate your comments and help. I am brand new to this. I am taking over for another who has become ill and can no longer maintain the site. Due to his illness, he has not been able to assist me. He gave me the files in DropBox and I have been using trial and error to work through the process. Here is how the files are set up in my computer. From what he has shared I am using an old version of Ancestry Family Tree. Main Folder Web, in that folder is the folder Cozine which has all the data and another separate folder for images, also in the web folder are the folders for Background and Word folders. The word folder houses all the separate information (in their own folder) with their respective HTML files. I know how to remove the reference to the Ged.com file. I do not know how to fix the broken links. Barbara

At 10:18 PM 6/23/2013, you wrote: >My webpage link is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/ Barbara, GEDCOM files are not allowed on your Freepages site. So that link will never work. pat Pat Geary Working With Rootsweb FreePages Accounts EBook (free) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/rootsweb-freepages-ebook.html

<000501ce7070$3e3b12f0$bab138d0$@net> My webpage link is http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cozine/ Barbara

I am using Ancestry Family Tree to organize my data and to make web pages. I am uploading my web page to rootsweb freepages using Core FTP software. The problem that I need help with is how to add HTML hyperlinks to my main cozine.htm webpage. Barbara bfcozine@ptd.net