Thanks to everyone for the advice! I have sent an email to Anne and am confident I'll be able to once again upload changes to my page. I'm not in any hurry, I just want to be able to upload changes occasionally. -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Geary [mailto:pat@the-gearys.com] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 5:31 PM To: 'Freepages Web Sites' Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FileZilla help If your email has changed since you created the account, and you can no longer receive mail at the original email address write to annerootsweb@gmail.com for assistance. Pat G -----Original Message----- From: tbuccella@roadrunner.com [mailto:tbuccella@roadrunner.com] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 4:08 PM To: 'Freepages Web Sites' <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FileZilla help Thank you Ron and Warren, I think the issue is the password but I'm having trouble resetting it. Unfortunately, I don't remember the email address I used when I set up the site. It was awhile ago and I'm not sure my current address is the right one. I tried resetting using my current address and one other possibility, but when I hit the Send button it just says Error: followed by the email address I used. I even tried a past address that might be the one I set up with, and I got the same message. Even if it had worked, that address is closed so I wouldn't be able to get the reset. I feel like I'm in an impossible place here! Any suggestions on how I can overcome this? Even if I can somehow figure out what email address is affiliated with my family site (buccella), chances are it's long since been closed.Should I set up a new Rootsweb account? Any suggestions to somehow overcome this would be welcome. Grazie, Tony _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Actually looking at the links you sent for arnwags, the correct update is the htm. Our internet is messed up and I am on my phone, so will try to get back and fix them tomorrow. Will let you know if I am successful. Thank you so much Ron!! Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Ron Lankshear <ronlankshear@gmail.com> wrote: > > I see you have both html and htm index > > both of course work > http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arnwags/index.html > > http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arnwags/index.htm > and > http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arnwags/ > > I suppose the question is which index url you have "published" anywhere > > Did you register with google for search indexing? if so does google > console say anything? > > I usually use HTM > but of course many like HTML > > Both yours say last update 8 Feb > So you are presumably updating both > > Your other site is http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arbccpg/index.html > > So I would stick with html for arnwags and delete the index.HTM from PC and > Rootsweb > > > Blessings from Ron Lankshear > > > > >> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 10:10, Wilma Fields <wfields55@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Got it apparently. Just don’t know which ones I need to delete now. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 4:35 PM, Wilma Fields <wfields55@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Having problem updating my index.htm page. Seems there are multiple ones >> and override does not change it on any of them. This is on my arnwags >> site. I had no problem with my arbccpg site. Where is the location for the >> proper index? Seems some are in the public folder and some are not. Help >> please!! >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

I see you have both html and htm index both of course work http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arnwags/index.html http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arnwags/index.htm and http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arnwags/ I suppose the question is which index url you have "published" anywhere Did you register with google for search indexing? if so does google console say anything? I usually use HTM but of course many like HTML Both yours say last update 8 Feb So you are presumably updating both Your other site is http://sites.rootsweb.com/~arbccpg/index.html So I would stick with html for arnwags and delete the index.HTM from PC and Rootsweb Blessings from Ron Lankshear On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 10:10, Wilma Fields <wfields55@hotmail.com> wrote: > Got it apparently. Just don’t know which ones I need to delete now. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 8, 2019, at 4:35 PM, Wilma Fields <wfields55@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Having problem updating my index.htm page. Seems there are multiple ones > and override does not change it on any of them. This is on my arnwags > site. I had no problem with my arbccpg site. Where is the location for the > proper index? Seems some are in the public folder and some are not. Help > please!! > >

Got it apparently. Just don’t know which ones I need to delete now. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2019, at 4:35 PM, Wilma Fields <wfields55@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Having problem updating my index.htm page. Seems there are multiple ones and override does not change it on any of them. This is on my arnwags site. I had no problem with my arbccpg site. Where is the location for the proper index? Seems some are in the public folder and some are not. Help please!! > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Hi Tony, You may need to do what I did and email Anne of Rootsweb.com, although I am still waiting for a reply to get my link to my ~dnapower FREEPAGES. I expect when it arrives it will have my old email address which I sent to her, my dnapower user name, and a box to input my new Password, which I will have to create when it arrives. The same will apply to you I guess .... but if you do not know your original email address you may have to ask if you can use one of your others, and possibly put in that address so she can consider whether it is OK. After that you will simply have to wait. I was just going to say how long it has been since requesting it and I looked up and saw a new email waiting for me. It let me know it was for my dnapower site and asked for my old email address. It now gives me an hour to receive the password box and input my new password. From memory of having done the last ~ mokurai FREEPAGES. Hope this has the same email address as they were both taken out at the same time in 2002. Anne's email address Tony is annerootsweb@gmail.com . Took me six days from when I first applied. Remember to ask for the use of a new email address and send it with the email to hep facilitate the change over. Kia Ora. Haere, Warren. On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 08:11, <tbuccella@roadrunner.com> wrote: > Thank you Ron and Warren, > I think the issue is the password but I'm having trouble resetting it. > Unfortunately, I don't remember the email address I used when I set up > the site. It was awhile ago and I'm not sure my current address is the > right one. I tried resetting using my current address and one other > possibility, but when I hit the Send button it just says Error: > followed by the email address I used. I even tried a past address that > might be the one I set up with, and I got the same message. Even if it > had worked, that address is closed so I wouldn't be able to get the > reset. I feel like I'm in an impossible place here! Any suggestions on > how I can overcome this? Even if I can somehow figure out what email > address is affiliated with my family site (buccella), chances are it's > long since been closed.Should I set up a new Rootsweb account? Any > suggestions to somehow overcome this would be welcome. > Grazie, Tony > > -----------------------------------------From: "Mokurai Power" > To: "Freepages Web Sites" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday February 6 2019 3:33:03AM > Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FileZilla help > > Hi Tony, > > Also to add to what Ron just told you Rootsweb want the exact email > address > you had when you were with them before. I still have mine but also > another > four which are more modern than the previous one. Still I think my > old one > will work when the time comes eh. My website user name has not > changed and > I just have to make sure I pick a good password this time as it has > to be > over 10 or more letters, numbers and some special additions like the > # ( ) > etc. They will no doubt let you know which ones those are. > > Haere, > > Warren. > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 10:13, Tony Buccella wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I know this has probably been covered many times before. I am new > to the > > list, so perhaps someone could direct me to an archived thread on > this. I > > downloaded FileZilla and am attempting to upload some corrections > to my > > site, but every time I try to connect, I get the following message: > > > > > > > > Error: Authentication failed. > > > > Error: Critical error: Could not connect to server > > > > > > > > I am using the Site Manager feature in FileZilla, Host: > > sitesuser.rootsweb.com, User: buccella (that's the name of my > family > > site), > > I enter my updated password and Port:22 and every time I get the > same > > message. > > > > > > > > One question I have is about the password, I updated my > Ancestry.com > > password, is this the same as my Rootsweb password? Maybe there's a > > Rootsweb > > password out there that I am supposed to use, but I don't know how > to find > > that out. > > > > > > > > Any assistance would be most welcome. > > > > > > > > Thank you, Tony Buccella > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > /> > Unsubscribe > > > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > /> > Rootsweb Blog: RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com > and our loyal RootsWeb > > community > > > > -- > > Over us no prince or barons known. We are all one of lordship alone. > An > equal and like life we share. Lord of himself is each man there. and > each > is faithful to the other. > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > /> Unsubscribe Privacy Statement: Rootsweb Blog: > > Links: > ------ > [1] https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY > [2] http://rootsweb.blog > [3] https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY > [4] http://rootsweb.blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community > -- Over us no prince or barons known. We are all one of lordship alone. An equal and like life we share. Lord of himself is each man there. and each is faithful to the other.

If your email has changed since you created the account, and you can no longer receive mail at the original email address write to annerootsweb@gmail.com for assistance. Pat G -----Original Message----- From: tbuccella@roadrunner.com [mailto:tbuccella@roadrunner.com] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 4:08 PM To: 'Freepages Web Sites' <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FileZilla help Thank you Ron and Warren, I think the issue is the password but I'm having trouble resetting it. Unfortunately, I don't remember the email address I used when I set up the site. It was awhile ago and I'm not sure my current address is the right one. I tried resetting using my current address and one other possibility, but when I hit the Send button it just says Error: followed by the email address I used. I even tried a past address that might be the one I set up with, and I got the same message. Even if it had worked, that address is closed so I wouldn't be able to get the reset. I feel like I'm in an impossible place here! Any suggestions on how I can overcome this? Even if I can somehow figure out what email address is affiliated with my family site (buccella), chances are it's long since been closed.Should I set up a new Rootsweb account? Any suggestions to somehow overcome this would be welcome. Grazie, Tony

Having problem updating my index.htm page. Seems there are multiple ones and override does not change it on any of them. This is on my arnwags site. I had no problem with my arbccpg site. Where is the location for the proper index? Seems some are in the public folder and some are not. Help please!! Sent from my iPhone

At 02:11 PM 2/8/2019, Wilma Fields wrote: >Got it. I was able to update the front page. Will ask about how to >link a new file to an existing one. I am still trying to get the >hang of this. I am concerned about the linking part of it. Thank you! This may help with the concept: <https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~pasherfp/computers/links.htm> Pat A.

At 02:21 PM 2/8/2019, Billie Walsh wrote: >What should happen is to first download your entire site to your >computer before you upload anything. Then you edit the fies you >downloaded and upload them again to overwrite whatever is on the >web. There are tools that will download your entire site to your computer. And RW will also send you a zipped file of all the files in your account: <http://rootsweb.blog/2018/07/30/hosted-web-sites-downloading-the-contents-of-your-website/> Pat A.

Thank you Ron and Warren, I think the issue is the password but I'm having trouble resetting it. Unfortunately, I don't remember the email address I used when I set up the site. It was awhile ago and I'm not sure my current address is the right one. I tried resetting using my current address and one other possibility, but when I hit the Send button it just says Error: followed by the email address I used. I even tried a past address that might be the one I set up with, and I got the same message. Even if it had worked, that address is closed so I wouldn't be able to get the reset. I feel like I'm in an impossible place here! Any suggestions on how I can overcome this? Even if I can somehow figure out what email address is affiliated with my family site (buccella), chances are it's long since been closed.Should I set up a new Rootsweb account? Any suggestions to somehow overcome this would be welcome. Grazie, Tony -----------------------------------------From: "Mokurai Power" To: "Freepages Web Sites" Cc: Sent: Wednesday February 6 2019 3:33:03AM Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FileZilla help Hi Tony, Also to add to what Ron just told you Rootsweb want the exact email address you had when you were with them before. I still have mine but also another four which are more modern than the previous one. Still I think my old one will work when the time comes eh. My website user name has not changed and I just have to make sure I pick a good password this time as it has to be over 10 or more letters, numbers and some special additions like the # ( ) etc. They will no doubt let you know which ones those are. Haere, Warren. On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 10:13, Tony Buccella wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I know this has probably been covered many times before. I am new to the > list, so perhaps someone could direct me to an archived thread on this. I > downloaded FileZilla and am attempting to upload some corrections to my > site, but every time I try to connect, I get the following message: > > > > Error: Authentication failed. > > Error: Critical error: Could not connect to server > > > > I am using the Site Manager feature in FileZilla, Host: > sitesuser.rootsweb.com, User: buccella (that's the name of my family > site), > I enter my updated password and Port:22 and every time I get the same > message. > > > > One question I have is about the password, I updated my Ancestry.com > password, is this the same as my Rootsweb password? Maybe there's a > Rootsweb > password out there that I am supposed to use, but I don't know how to find > that out. > > > > Any assistance would be most welcome. > > > > Thank you, Tony Buccella > > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref /> > Unsubscribe > > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 /> > Rootsweb Blog: RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community > -- Over us no prince or barons known. We are all one of lordship alone. An equal and like life we share. Lord of himself is each man there. and each is faithful to the other. _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref /> Unsubscribe Privacy Statement: Rootsweb Blog: Links: ------ [1] https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY [2] http://rootsweb.blog [3] https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY [4] http://rootsweb.blog

I had done that months ago thank you anyway. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh@swbell.net> wrote: > > What should happen is to first download your entire site to your computer before you upload anything. Then you edit the fies you downloaded and upload them again to overwrite whatever is on the web. There are tools that will download your entire site to your computer. > > >> On 02/08/2019 12:20 PM, Wilma Fields wrote: >> How would I delete files that were uploaded with the wrong file name. I realized as I was trying to learn how to use .ftp, that to replace a file with the updated file, the new one has to have the exact name as the old one. Thanks! >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref >> Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com >> Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 >> Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog >> RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community >> > > -- > "The dog is a gentleman. I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." > > Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Wilma, check this one out. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp What program are you using to create your pages? Pat G -----Original Message----- From: Wilma Fields [mailto:wfields55@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 2:11 PM To: Freepages Web Sites <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: Deleting files Got it. I was able to update the front page. Will ask about how to link a new file to an existing one. I am still trying to get the hang of this. I am concerned about the linking part of it. Thank you!

What should happen is to first download your entire site to your computer before you upload anything. Then you edit the fies you downloaded and upload them again to overwrite whatever is on the web. There are tools that will download your entire site to your computer. On 02/08/2019 12:20 PM, Wilma Fields wrote: > How would I delete files that were uploaded with the wrong file name. I realized as I was trying to learn how to use .ftp, that to replace a file with the updated file, the new one has to have the exact name as the old one. Thanks! > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community > -- "The dog is a gentleman. I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." Mark Twain

Got it. I was able to update the front page. Will ask about how to link a new file to an existing one. I am still trying to get the hang of this. I am concerned about the linking part of it. Thank you! Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Patricia Geary <patgeary@comcast.net> wrote: > > Login to your site with filezilla, remote files on the right hand side, > right click on the file you want to remove and select delete. Make sure you > are deleting the correct file. > > Pat G > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilma Fields [mailto:wfields55@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 1:20 PM > To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Subject: [FreeHelp]Deleting files > > How would I delete files that were uploaded with the wrong file name. I > realized as I was trying to learn how to use .ftp, that to replace a file > with the updated file, the new one has to have the exact name as the old > one. Thanks! > > . > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Login to your site with filezilla, remote files on the right hand side, right click on the file you want to remove and select delete. Make sure you are deleting the correct file. Pat G -----Original Message----- From: Wilma Fields [mailto:wfields55@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 1:20 PM To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Subject: [FreeHelp]Deleting files How would I delete files that were uploaded with the wrong file name. I realized as I was trying to learn how to use .ftp, that to replace a file with the updated file, the new one has to have the exact name as the old one. Thanks! .

How would I delete files that were uploaded with the wrong file name. I realized as I was trying to learn how to use .ftp, that to replace a file with the updated file, the new one has to have the exact name as the old one. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone

Paul, Will you post a link to the .htm page you mentioned.  I would like to see the underlying code; which can be cleaned up. Barry On 8/02/2019 11:51, Paul Sheats wrote: > Vicki's post just gave me an idea. I use Word documents with embedded tables for my surname DNA project website. I have heard that these generate a lot of unnecessary code behind the scenes. If I was to save my word documents as PDF files, would they work as website pages? And would the links be clickable? > One of my pages is 2,294 KB when converted from Word to .htm format. As a PDF file, it's only 928 KB. Would the pages load faster as PDFs? > > Thanks. > Paul > > > >> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 12:25:00 -0500 >> From: "Vicki Kruschwitz" <vkruschwitz@gmail.com> >> Subject: [FreeHelp]Updating my website >> To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <003b01d4be40$e5229420$af67bc60$@gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> Thanks to everyone for responses and explanations! I was successful in >> setting up FileZilla and have now uploaded new files, deleted old ones and >> replaced one file with a new version. All were pdfs and went smoothly. >> Since I don't regularly upload files, I have made notes to help me remember >> how to do this! > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Vicki's post just gave me an idea. I use Word documents with embedded tables for my surname DNA project website. I have heard that these generate a lot of unnecessary code behind the scenes. If I was to save my word documents as PDF files, would they work as website pages? And would the links be clickable? One of my pages is 2,294 KB when converted from Word to .htm format. As a PDF file, it's only 928 KB. Would the pages load faster as PDFs? Thanks. Paul > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 12:25:00 -0500 > From: "Vicki Kruschwitz" <vkruschwitz@gmail.com> > Subject: [FreeHelp]Updating my website > To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <003b01d4be40$e5229420$af67bc60$@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Thanks to everyone for responses and explanations! I was successful in > setting up FileZilla and have now uploaded new files, deleted old ones and > replaced one file with a new version. All were pdfs and went smoothly. > Since I don't regularly upload files, I have made notes to help me remember > how to do this!

At 04:02 AM 2/7/2019, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 12:29:47 -0500 >From: "Vicki Kruschwitz" <vkruschwitz@gmail.com> >Subject: [FreeHelp]Updating my website >Before I try overwriting the current homepage, any suggestions what I am >doing wrong and how to do it correctly would be greatly appreciated. I'm >assuming that I just give the updated homepage the name index.html. But can >I make a draft, as I've been attempting, using a different name, to view the >page online? *********** It is better to view the page offline, using any browser. Then you don't have to worry about loading it on the website every time you make a change. Incidentally, the name "index.html" is used be a lot of website servers to allow viewers to go directly there when they put in a URL that ends in "/" without a file name. The server assumes the home page is index.html (or index.htm, it doesn't make any difference). ********** >But now I have a new one - thanks for your patience! Viewing the notepad >html version online, I can see the vast additional formatting changes needed >if I use that platform for my homepage. See >http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~barronfamily/genealogy/Barron/notepaddraft.ht >ml. (I have not yet looked at Note Tab light). I also tried changing the >Word version that I have of the homepage into a webpage. It looks great >online, all the hyperlinks work, and even all the Rootsweb footer >information was (magically) added - I didn't include that in my draft >upload. Here is the link to the Word document changed to webpage: >http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~barronfamily/genealogy/Barron/genealogyhomepa >geofvickibarronkruschwitz.htm. > > >So my question is this: Can I use this Word-to-webpage file to replace my >current home page: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~barronfamily/ (known as >index.html on the FileZilla remote site) The one issue I see is >that when I create >a webpage from Word the suffix is htm rather than html. Is that a problem >But now I have a new one - thanks for your patience! Viewing the notepad >html version online, I can see the vast additional formatting changes needed >if I use that platform for my homepage. See >http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~barronfamily/genealogy/Barron/notepaddraft.ht >ml. (I have not yet looked at Note Tab light). I also tried changing the >Word version that I have of the homepage into a webpage. It looks great >online, all the hyperlinks work, and even all the Rootsweb footer >information was (magically) added - I didn't include that in my draft >upload. Here is the link to the Word document changed to webpage: >http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~barronfamily/genealogy/Barron/genealogyhomepa >geofvickibarronkruschwitz.htm. > ************* Word will create htm/html documents that work, but if you right click on the webpage and go to "View source". you will see a lot of repetitive style declarations that are not wrong but that can be vastly simplified. ************** >So my question is this: Can I use this Word-to-webpage file to replace my >current home page: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~barronfamily/ (known as >index.html on the FileZilla remote site)? I don't recall anyone ever >mentioning using Word, though most Rootsweb webpage creators are light years >beyond what I need or want to do. The one issue I see is that when I create >a webpage from Word the suffix is htm rather than html. Is that a problem?

Vicki, All of Office uses proprietary code. While pages made in Word or Excel look okay, they load slowly because of all kinds of mso coding (mso = Microsoft Office). I started doing pages about 2006. I took over websites that had mso coding. Now, I know enough good coding that I can fix those pages. But take it from me--- removing ALL that mso code is sheer drudgery!! Do yourself a favor NOW--- do not use Word or Excel to make pages. It's a bad temptation. Turn to w3.org Ty It (google that) and look at the code they show for a page.... a page with a table... a page with an image. Write on the Lists what you like about your page, with the URL, and ask people here how to do good code. People will help. And it was hard for me at first to understand that the "home" page of a site should be named index.html -- not anything else. Plus, any folder should have its own index.html page, used as a "door" to that folder. Questions? Judy