Sue wrote: "What is the recommended web design program for Rootsweb? I have a Mac, used iWeb and am having all sorts of difficulties. One of which is our Rootsweb page can't be read by Mozilla. I can't get Rootsweb to read inserted html (for a search box and a hit counter.) I'm thinking of starting over because of the number of problems." As others have explained, all that Rootsweb's Freepages hosting requires is the standard & internationally-recognized hyper-text markup language (HTML) that is the foundation of the World-wide Web. If you're having problems at Freepages, you're likely to have problems with most hosting service providers. Rootsweb's Freepages, however, do NOT support certain proprietary features that some web editor programs may use. That sort of proprietary feature support usually has a cost associated with it. I'm not an iweb user, so I looked up this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWeb: "iWeb is a template-based WYSIWYG website creation tool developed by Apple Inc... iWeb allows users to create websites and blogs and customize them with their own text, photos and movies. Users can then publish their websites to MobileMe or another hosting service. In addition to its ability to publish to MobileMe, iWeb integrates with other services, including Facebook, YouTube, Google AdSense and Google Maps." Later: "iWeb allows users to create and design websites and blogs without coding, and includes a number of Apple-designed themes, each of which has several page templates with coordinated fonts and colors. Users can customize these pages by replacing placeholder text and by dragging and dropping their own photos and movies into the document." Even later and more significantly: "There is no option to directly edit the HTML code of templates. HTML support is limited to small snippets that can be included with the page." (There's more technical stuff about CSS & built-in template limitation, etc.) Summing up: 1. iWeb is template-based and uses proprietary themes. 2. Pages produced with iWeb can be published to certain sites which support the templates and themes. 3. Users can not directly edit the critical HTML. To emphasize: "_HTML_support_is_limited_to_small_snippets_"!!! What that says to me (without looking "under the hood") is that your page is NOT standard HTML, that it relies on proprietary features for display. In an apparent attempt to make the product user-friendly, Apple seems to have produced a program with very limited functionality. (This wouldn't be a first in the computer business.) Your problems aren't with the hosting service (Freepages) or even the browser (Mozilla Firefox), but with the HTML code (or its lack) in the page file. iWeb may not produce correct code for sites other than those listed by Wikipedia -- in other words, most of the Web. An alternative explanation is that certain needed files haven't been uploaded to the Freepages server. To turn your question around, I'd say almost any web editor (except maybe iWeb) produces pages that could be displayed properly on Freepages. Try looking for and downloading one of the free WYSIWYG web editors for a Mac that DO allow you to directly edit the code. See, for example, http://webdesign.about.com/od/macintoshhtmleditors/tp/free-macintosh-editors .htm. Almost all of them support HTML! And, you may have to learn some basics. For example, pictures may appear as part of the page, but they're really separate graphics files, loaded only as the page is displayed. If the picture isn't where the code says it is (say, not on the remote server), it won't display. For the novice website designer, the best advice is to avoid "fancy" features at first. Keep it simple to start; add complexities and work through their difficulties just one at a time. -rt_/)