I have an automatic date change every time I work on a page, so I don't even have to think about changing the last update. I always us a template I made and the auto update is there. You can go to one of my pages and just copy and paste the last update at the bottom. Also, ever so often when I have a few minutes, I go in and at least refresh some of my main pages, like cemetery, census or address just to update those. There is just not a lot of info to find for my counties and I think in the 2 years I've had them, I've only received 2 queries. Jane Keppler Treasure and Musselshell On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Karen De Groote <[email protected]> wrote: > A What's New can be used for a variety of things including > housekeeping, new interesting and useful links or the fact that a page > on your site has been added to. I am going to start adding a date on > pages when I work on them so eventually my sites will have dates on > every page but I don't think that should be a requirement. > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Suzanne Andrews <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I like the idea of a "What's New" page. I'll have to think about that > for my > > pages--at least for my county. The other two counties I have might be a > little > > more difficult to come up with new things other than possible links. > > Definitely a good idea tho! > > > > > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 14:09:11 -0500 > > Karen De Groote <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Personally I feel that the reason many states in the USGenWeb have > >> gone stagnant is because the project does not require periodic > >> updating to county sites within the project. Some counties in the > >> project, (not here), list a last update of 2008, which in my opinion > >> is shameful. I don't think it is asking too much of a county > >> coordinator to provide a minimum of two additional sources of > >> genealogical information a year to our counties. I don't think an > >> update date within 3 months is necessary but I do agree that there > >> needs to be something added once every six months at minimum. In > >> another project we are required to have a What's New page on which we > >> list our additions. Not only does this make it easy for researchers > >> to check new additions and promote people's return but it makes it > >> easy for project members to see that the CC is active. > >> > >> Perhaps we could vote in some bare minimum requirements for our state > >> project? I feel that this could only be a positive move for us! > >> Karen > >> > >> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> > >>wrote: > >>> Correction...the USGenWeb does not have a requirement on updates to the > >>> county websites. The paragraph from the Policies page is from the > MTGenWeb > >>> rules and is not part of the required elements but is "strongly > >>> recommended". > >>> > >>> I don't think we need to require a "last update date" on all county > >>> websites but would like to see the MTGenWeb add a requirement for sites > >>> with a last update date to keep the date current. I personally like a 3 > >>> month time frame but 6 months works too. <g> > >>> > >>> Please post your thoughts on this issue and let's discuss the pros and > cons. > >>> > >>> Shirley > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Shirley Cullum <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Just a reminder that county websites must be updated at least twice a > year > >>>> per the USGenWeb requirements. Therefore the last update date on our > >>>> websites should not be more than 6 months old. And according to the > >>>> MTGenWeb Policies page, it is *suggested* that last update dates be > >>>> "within a month or so" (see below). With those statements in mind, the > >>>> County of Excellence rules will be updated. To be eligible for the > MTGenWeb > >>>> COE award, county websites that have a last update date on them must > have > >>>> dates that are no older than 6 months. > >>>> > >>>> I appreciate your assistance in making sure your county website is > >>>> compliant with all rules. > >>>> > >>>> Shirley > >>>> > >>>> From the Policies page: > >>>> 10.*IT IS ESSENTIAL* that your site be well-maintained and updated as > >>>> frequently as possible. Every site needs to have some basic research > >>>> resources, i.e. Courthouse offices addresses, phone numbers, fees, > etc., > >>>> library, historical society, newspaper, cemetery names & addresses, > funeral > >>>> homes, etc. Many have also provided a bibliography page showing > reference > >>>> books available for their county and much more. Your site needs to be > >>>> checked often for bad links, new ideas, etc., and the update "date" > >>>> changed. We do check these and inquire of county coordinators if we > find > >>>> sites that have not been updated within a month or so. If you are ill, > >>>> going on vacation, or having some temporary problems, the State > Coordinator > >>>> would like to know and, of course, we make exceptions for those times. > >>>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> 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 > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> 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 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Suzanne Andrews > > [email protected] > > Volunteer - Butte-Silver Bow Archives > > Volunteer - MTGenWeb County Coordinator > > for Butte-Silver Bow, Anaconda-Deer Lodge, > > and Powell counties, Montana > > http://www.mtgenweb.com/silverbow/index.htm > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Be on guard. 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