I have a freepages page and clicked on the download WYSIWYG button and have had the XINHA box with "Loading in progress. Please wait. Create toolbar." on my screen for about half an hour! Does it take this long to download or has something gone wrong. Not liking the complicated set up :( Rose Kelland Suffolk, UK www.kellandstreet.webs.com www.rosescountryrose.blogspot.com

At 06:37 AM 1/25/2012, Rose Kelland wrote: >I have a freepages page and clicked on the download WYSIWYG button >and have had the XINHA box with "Loading in progress. Please wait. >Create toolbar." on my screen for about half an hour! Does it take >this long to download or has something gone wrong. > >Not liking the complicated set up :( Are you trying to download the program, XINHA? It is a WYSIWYG editor for creating web pages online. You would be downloading that from their server, not RootsWeb/Freepages and you need to talk to them if you are having problems downloading their software. However, as I understand the program, you must install it on YOUR server to use it. You may not install executables in your Freepages account, so this software will not work for your Freepages site. There are many free HTML editors that you can download to your computer and use to create and edit your web pages. I still use Komposer, but list members have suggested others you may like better. Some of you want to chime in with your favorite editor? Pat Asher

At 07:34 AM 1/25/2012, Pat Asher wrote: >There are many free HTML editors that you can download to your >computer and use to create and edit your web pages. I still use >Komposer, but list members have suggested others you may like >better. Some of you want to chime in with your favorite editor? =================== http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/resources.htm Scroll down to the bottom for F ree Web Authoring software. Here are just a few of them Free Editors The <http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor/>CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a full-featured Web design system. With built-in FTP uploading, wizards for tables, frames, fonts, and more, and 100% valid code output, it's a great tool for anyone who wants to design their own Website. <http://www.ornj.net/araneae/>Araneae (pronounced ah-RAN-ee-ay) is a simple, yet powerful text editor, providing only the features necessary to create websites and scripts using the latest web technologies. Best of all, Araneae is absolutely free for non-commercial use. Use it as long as you like for your personal projects. <http://kompozer.net/>KompoZer is Nvu's unofficial bug-fix release and is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. NOTE: I have removed NVU from the list as it is not being updated. NoteTab Light - Freeware. A slimmed down version of NoteTab Pro. This is a NotePad replacement and a capable HTML editor. You select tags from a menu of icons. much as you would in a word processor. <http://www.chami.com/html-kit/>Html Kit - Here's a freeware HTML editor that's aimed at advanced Web designers. You can use HTML-Kit to create, edit, validate, preview and publish Web pages and scripts. It offers loads of features including hundreds of free plugins and built-in FTP support. <http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage2.shtml>1st Page - This powerful program from Australia is loaded with handy features and is suitable for everyone from newbies to experts. Offers four different interfaces, ranging from Easy mode to Hardcore mode. 1st Page includes full support for WebTV, ASP, SSI, Cold Fusion, DHTML and more. Includes 450 free JavaScripts, as well. (For Windows). <http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/>Arachnophilia - Arachnophilia is an outstanding Web editor, bursting with features. It'll import fully formatted text, tables, and outlines from any Windows-compliant application and automatically convert it to HTML. It also has built-in FTP capabilities that can automatically upload files (although it can't delete files, like a true FTP client can). Powerful keyboard macros can include system commands---even other macros, for maximum flexibility. (For Windows) NOTE: I have used this program in the past. <http://www.bluegriffon.org/>BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4, it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards. It's free to download (current stable version is <http://bluegriffon.org/pages/Download>1.1.1) and is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. BlueGriffon is available in English, Dutch, French, Czech, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. Dick Eastman recently reviewed it in his genealogy newsletter. You can read <http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/06/bluegriffon-a-wysiwyg-html-content-editor.html>BlueGriffon, a WYSIWYG HTML Content Editor Pat Pat Geary Working With Rootsweb FreePages Accounts EBook (free) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/rootsweb-freepages-ebook.html