There will always be a storage device for our data. 5ΒΌ diskettes have come and gone. 1.44 meg distketts have come and gone. And tapes have come and gone. The CDs and DVDs are dying out. But what still remains from the 1980s are hard drives. So I suppose they will still remain for years to come. If anything repaces them, since so much has already been stored on hard drives for nearly 30 years already, whoever comes up with a better method will probbably have to make the hard drive compatible with whatever is new. So for now, save your data on the web page hard drives. John ----- Original Message ----- From: freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 00:00 Subject: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 7, Issue 35 When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ***FREEPAGES HELP & FAQ*** <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html> Today's Topics: 1. Web page permanency (Warwick Sherring) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:53:42 +1000 From: Warwick Sherring <warwick.sherring@bigpond.com> Subject: [FreeHelp] Web page permanency To: FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4F93AAF6.8080702@bigpond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To make my research available to others and to ensure its availability after I am 'pushing up daisies', I have created two web pages using html and css and I have considered the use of java script at times. However, on reading a recent transcript of an address by an archivist, I was wondering about the safety of straying from straight html/css. The archivist mainly talked about the problems of retaining material recorded on outmoded systems ie tapes and CDs; however he did also raise the problem of web pages that make calls to now defunct off-site plug-ins. I wondered if the more experienced web designers could comment on this matter. Warwick Sherring Lismore NSW http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sherring/ http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~sherring/parry/