On my freepages website 'The Duffy Paper's' (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~theduffypapers/Index.htm) as well as my non-freepages genealogy website 'Descendants of Richard Crouch of Goochland County, VA.' http://home.insightbb.com/~jecrouch9/home.htm I follow the KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid) principle as it works for the long run. Just simple text web pages without fancy add-ins. 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/