> 1. Re: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39 (Ronald Mesnard) Ronald You can have up to 11 different sites by using sub-directories, such as freepages.family or freepages.history etc. As you have noted I have two web pages and I have a third under construction that I will probably put under freepages.nostalgia. I agree with you about raw data formats being preferable to proprietary formats. I think there is always concern about Cloud computing sites, that is why I would place my data in at least two Cloud sites. I have recently been reading a book on Google and the book details the number of large web oriented companies that have been swallowed up or sunk without a trace in the recent past - this does not fill me with much confidence about web permanency. I take your point about future interest in a family with many dead branches, which is why I have commenced placing more photos and articles of human and historical interest on my sites, so that the web pages will have a more general interest. Regards Warwick Sherring Lismore NSW http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sherring/ http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~sherring/parry/

On 4/27/12, Warwick Sherring <warwick.sherring@bigpond.com> wrote: > > ... > I agree with you about raw data formats being preferable to proprietary > formats. Not all PDF viewers can view PDFs. jpg seems a more reliable format to store documents. Standard, wll formatted html is a lot easier to read than raw text. But the moment you add even css, there will be antique browsers that may not display the content the way you want. So, yes, I agree, the simpler the better, as the content will stay readable no matter how much technology changes. > I think there is always concern about Cloud computing sites, that is why > I would place my data in at least two Cloud sites.... I just learned about Cloud sites, it makes more sense to me to put all your data at rootsweb and worldconnect (the rootsweb tree site) and have offline backup in addition to knowing that web.archive.org should creat a permanent archive of all your pages once it's engines get around to spidering them. I mean, is there any such thing as a free Cloud site at this stage of the game, that you can be sure will be around decades from now? I would not count on two of them, but maybe one of them in addition to rootsweb for raw data. > I take your point about future interest in a family with many dead > branches, which is why I have commenced placing more photos and articles > of human and historical interest on my sites, so that the web pages will > have a more general interest. But you never know when someone doing collateral lines may want to follow through by searching your dead branches to see what happened. However, I agree that if you put more content of general interest, it will help your pages float higher up in it's search engine rankings.

LOL, I left out a word. I meant, not all PDF viewers can read all PDF formats. I have a horrendous time with some PDFs, no way can my system open them up. That is why I say jpg is more standard and reliable.