snip #1................ -rt_/) I'd go further and say that the person who does the work of editing and publishing a site gets to be the dictator of that demesnes and everyone else just has to put up with the choices. (If they don't like it, they can publish their own site.) RE: Agreed, they have a keyboard. I would NEVER ask someone to change their site. My biggest "suggestion" are to people who list data, say, from "Fred's Cemetery". No clue as to the city, county, state, or country. When you enter a page from the back door, make sure that page has all the specific information as to where you are at. snip #2.............-rt_/) The webmaster (really, the web-slave) is like the captain of a ship. He or she shouldn't let the passengers keep changing the course steered or the ship will never get anywhere and may sail into dangerous waters. RE: SLAVE is perfect. Few, if any, complainers are putting in the 40+ hours of "part time" effort per week to produce what you have accomplished. snip #3...........-rt_/) Or, to take another perspective: We, usually on this list, take about technicalities rather than art, but an "artistic vision" should be behind every site and it should be a unified, consistent vision. RE: my job became finding data, then, to present it in a simple manner. Black text on a white background works fine. I'm not here to impress you with web design capabilities. Names and dates are enough. If 1 person in 500,000 sees a connection, email me and we'll exchange the specifics. Giving myself a headache to impress you is not part of the work. Richard

Hi to everyone on the list! I am an experienced genealogy researcher, know my way around the Internet and the computer pretty well...BUT...I have HTML anxiety. Several years ago, I started working on a webpage through Rootsweb freepages, but dropped the project till now. When I recently tried to create another one, I was told I already had one and was sent the user name and password to access it. However, I have no idea where to go on Rootsweb to try to open it up and resume work on it. Or what to do once I get there. I am really just looking for the most basic of webpages, no bells, whistles, music, animated graphics, or any of that stuff. I just want a simple page with the surnames I am researching, a little brief info on each one. And a link to my gedcom file I created with Family Tree Maker. I want the webpage to come up on Google or other search engines, if someone does a search on one of my surnames. Really, I am just looking to make some genealogy connections here to further my research, not bedazzle anyone with an eyecatching website. :) I welcome any suggestions, and thank you in advance for your help! Donna

At 01:29 PM 2/27/2011, Donna K. Vaughn wrote: >Several years ago, I started working on a webpage through Rootsweb >freepages, but dropped the project till now. When I recently tried to >create another one, I was told I already had one and was sent the user name >and password to access it. However, I have no idea where to go on Rootsweb >to try to open it up and resume work on it. Or what to do once I get there. =============== Go to http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi Sign in using the username and password you were sent originally. More detailed instructions here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/rootsweb-file-manager.html and download the free ebook http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/rootsweb-freepages-ebook.html Good luck. pat

Hi, Donna- Have you considered publishing via WorldConnect? It's really simple: just send in your gedcom file. WC has the best search engine around, and your users can choose how they want the genealogical data presented: 1) an ahnentafel <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=dav4is&id=I00001>, 2) a pedigree <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=dav4is&id=I00001>, 3) a Register report <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=dav4is&id=I00162>, 4) an Outline Descendancy Tree <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=dav4is&id=I07616>, etc etc Start here <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/>. -R. On 2011-02-27 13:29, Donna K. Vaughn wrote: > Hi to everyone on the list! I am an experienced genealogy researcher, know > my way around the Internet and the computer pretty well...BUT...I have HTML > anxiety. > > Several years ago, I started working on a webpage through Rootsweb > freepages, but dropped the project till now. When I recently tried to > create another one, I was told I already had one and was sent the user name > and password to access it. However, I have no idea where to go on Rootsweb > to try to open it up and resume work on it. Or what to do once I get there. > > I am really just looking for the most basic of webpages, no bells, whistles, > music, animated graphics, or any of that stuff. I just want a simple page > with the surnames I am researching, a little brief info on each one. And a > link to my gedcom file I created with Family Tree Maker. I want the webpage > to come up on Google or other search engines, if someone does a search on > one of my surnames. Really, I am just looking to make some genealogy > connections here to further my research, not bedazzle anyone with an > eyecatching website. :) > > I welcome any suggestions, and thank you in advance for your help! > > Donna -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Little Nine Partners Historical Society Trustee, Webmaster, Lifetime Member http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/

Donna, does your current (older) web page still show up on-line via the url you created? Once you choose one of the many ways to access your freepages account, your new information can simply over-ride your previous creations when you upload them. Or delete them and start over with new file names (remembering to keep an index.html page). I think Pat also has a tutorial on using the FTP "Drag and Drop" method, very easy. If you forgot where the original files are at on your own computer, just make new folders. Thanks for wanting to be simple. Your presentation can probably be accomplished with less than a dozen HTML commands. No dazzle needed. Good luck on your site, and the research. Richard