That's the great thing about the project - individual choice as to what works best for them. I do not copyright all pages, nor do I think they need to be updated each year but I do as I see them. I try to put up pages of data that do not change, so I really never need to view them again. I have not done a page count but the last time I did it was around 5500 across all my sites. Many of those were ones I inherited, some are small, some are large for when I started with many users on slow modems I had to be concerned about page loading speeds. As I visit old pages, I tighten code to make them small and faster, that falls under maintenance which I work on from time to time, but my main focus is to put new data online - much of it in the form of public domain works that are not available in a format most would want to view. In other words, most folks don't want to download a whole book to read one chapter. I try to make it easier for my viewers. Sometimes I fail. I learn. I fix it. Tim On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Laverne H. Tornow <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > > AS the county coordinator of a genweb site that has over 12,000 html pages > on it, and several others that have 2000-3000 html pages, using a CCS file > to control the layout, font sizes, color etc is essential. Not all the > pages have to be cookie cutter either when using a CSS file. I have at > minimum 2 css files on each site, one is for a 2 or in some cases a 3 > column page and the other is for a single column page, which I use mainly > for cemeteries, census transcriptions and things of that mature. I even > have one site that utilizes different CSS files for different parts of the > site. The design and layout is the same, but different sections of the > site have a different color scheme. > > I always use a font size of at least 11pt or 14 px for the simple reason > to make it easier on the eye, I eeven will set the font weight to about > halfway between normal and bold.for the same reason. I also like css menus > for the simple reason that a change in the css file populates throughout > the site rather than have to change several hundred pages manually, even > with a find and replace feature, some pages can be missed and you have to > look at each page and check to see that the change actually occurred on > every page. I like to set the footers up the same way. so that I only have > to make the change of copyright date in a couple of files at the beginning > of each year and not the each and every page! > > CSS is does not limit creativity and style, it just makes it easier to > make changes site wide! > > Laverne > > On 2/6/2015 2:00 PM, Timothy Stowell via wrote: > >> As I have developed web sites, overhauled others, merged pages, I've tried >> to preserve the original creator's image, while updating a page's HTML >> code >> to a more modern standard. >> >> I keep tinkering with pages, tossing out some things that just make no >> sense to me, like one site I acquired that was full of .css code which >> made >> the text so small it was near the size of medicine bottle print. That was >> a disservice to the end user. It made it easier for the coordinator to >> make one change and have it change on the whole site, yet each page had >> the >> same cookie cutter look. >> >> I find, for myself, that the data itself might lend itself to better >> presentation depending on its format, rather than one size fits all. >> >> While I appreciate the concept of the Archives, sometimes reading the text >> files there especially if wider than the screen, with wrap around makes >> data harder to read. Thus presenting data like it appears as best one can >> to the original text is somewhat desirable. >> >> A couple of examples, as the result of feedback from users: >> >> giving users a choice of background on a page - >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnhamilt/ >> >> and >> >> presentation of census records - >> >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nychenan/census/1860/ >> bainbridge/1860-153.htm >> >> I have found that treating folks like I'd want to be treated goes much >> further than acting like lord and master over others. Even on the county >> sites I maintain, they would not be all they are without the contributions >> of others either directly or indirectly. >> >> Tim >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >