Hello Ann, The blacksmith pages are really nice. So far as hand coding html goes. It's my preference. Although it is very labor intensive, you have full control of what code goes onto the page. There are tools out there to help, and of course like with anything, the more you do, the better and faster you get. I don't know what your using to hand code, (I started with "notepad"), but use a program called "PSpad" now. It's free and has a lot of very neat things built in. Check out: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lostalbro/soft.html or their website at: http://www.pspad.com/en/ In my experience, even the better WYSIWYG programs tend to make bloated code if one isn't very careful, and it's not any harder to learn HTML and CSS than it is to learn one of them. Anyway, good luck and keep up the good work. Jim in "almost warm again" Florida --- On Fri, 1/14/11, freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com <freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: From: freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com <freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8 To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:00 AM Hello Wendy and list Thanks for your comments.  I see WYSIWYG on the rootsweb freepages site I have just obtained. My other freepages site The Blacksmiths & Related Occupations Website : http://tinyurl.com/2948r4v I am putting in html code myself but there are times when I find it labourious.  If I didn't work full time it wouldn't matter.   I had help from Barry (in NZ) setting it up and still have to ask for help at times - if I get mixed up with the 'tables' etc.  However, he is very busy and I don't like to keep calling on him. I might have a go at the WYSIWYG program and if not happy will switch to doing it (html code) myself.   Kind regards Kind regards Ann Spiro Western Australia Guild ONS #5101 rep-australia-north-west@one-name.org The Blacksmiths Website: http://tinyurl.com/2948r4v My surname One name Study = BASKETT  http://www.one-name.org/ My cousins' One name Study = NUTTY (nutty@one-name.org) One Place Study "Blue Town, Kent". **************************

I haven't used KompoZer in a while but it has/had a nice text [ raw HTML ] mode where could work and had lots of good buttons to add the codes you wanted. Kind of nice to just click instead of typing everything [ at least for me as I never learned how to really type ]. There are several other programs available if you google for them. I use a program called Quanta+ [ only available for Linux unfortunately ] in text mode all the time. Amongst some of the better features is a setting for the different buttons/tags is a box that pops up when I click a button for all the different properties for that tag. If I add a tag manually it "highlights" it if I do something wrong so it makes it harder to mess something up. Along with a spell checker and other features it's well worth using a good HTML program even if you use it in text mode. Besides, text mode is much easier to master than WYSIWYG mode if you already know some HTML, and still gives you complete control over what goes where. On 01/14/2011 07:31 AM, JAMES H ALBRO wrote: > Hello Ann, > The blacksmith pages are really nice. So far as hand coding html goes. It's my preference. Although it is very labor intensive, you have full control of what code goes onto the page. There are tools out there to help, and of course like with anything, the more you do, the better and faster you get. I don't know what your using to hand code, (I started with "notepad"), but use a program called "PSpad" now. It's free and has a lot of very neat things built in. Check out: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lostalbro/soft.html > or their website at: http://www.pspad.com/en/ > In my experience, even the better WYSIWYG programs tend to make bloated code if one isn't very careful, and it's not any harder to learn HTML and CSS than it is to learn one of them. > Anyway, good luck and keep up the good work. > > Jim in "almost warm again" Florida > > --- On Fri, 1/14/11, freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com<freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > From: freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com<freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com> > Subject: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8 > To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com > Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:00 AM > Hello Wendy and list > > Thanks for your comments. I see WYSIWYG on the rootsweb freepages site > I have just obtained. > My other freepages site The Blacksmiths& Related Occupations Website : > http://tinyurl.com/2948r4v > I am putting in html code myself but there are times when I find it > labourious. If I didn't work full time it wouldn't matter. I had help > from Barry (in NZ) setting it up and still have to ask for help at times > - if I get mixed up with the 'tables' etc. However, he is very busy and > I don't like to keep calling on him. > > I might have a go at the WYSIWYG program and if not happy will switch to > doing it (html code) myself. > > Kind regards > > Kind regards > Ann Spiro > Western Australia > Guild ONS #5101 > rep-australia-north-west@one-name.org > The Blacksmiths Website: http://tinyurl.com/2948r4v > My surname One name Study = BASKETT http://www.one-name.org/ > My cousins' One name Study = NUTTY (nutty@one-name.org) > One Place Study "Blue Town, Kent". > > > > > > ************************** > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._