I also use RootsWeb to host my site<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onmymothersside/>and it has been a solid and reliable platform for years now (more reliable than its owner who needs to update it sometime soon!). As you can see from the sites of the others who have posted about it, and my site, it allows for a variety of approaches to displaying content - you're not constrained by templates or too many rules. On the other hand, you do need to have some basic skills in web publishing to make your site attractive and easy to use. If you decide to go down the RootsWeb route (see what I did there!) my advice is to look at lots of other examples of peoples' pages first, identify the bits you like and 'design' your site on paper before creating it. Much easier to start with a structure in mind than try to change it later on (found out the hard way). Tracy -----Original Message----- From: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bryan P Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014 3:52 p.m. To: Rootsweb NZ Rootsweb Subject: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting I'm wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP's homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've had info at Freepages since 1998. Some of my pages are that old in fact. Mostly I've uploaded "book" reports of linked descendants generated by PAF. That makes a home page for each report, so I learned basic HTML to be able to develop one master home page to rule them all, and do other things. As Tracy says, it certainly helps to know a bit of simple HTML if you are doing webpages. Basic HTML is easy to learn. You can have your first page up and running in just a few minutes. I still remember how gobsmacked I was to discover how easy a simple page of text is to create when previously i thought it must be an arcane science. Not so. I learned very basic HTML online at this now seriously old website http://www.math.unm.edu/writingHTML/tut/index.html but there must be others out there. These days you can use software to create a website without having to figure out the nuts and bolts of a lot of HTML commands, but I think it still helps to know the very basic nuts and bolts. If nothing else it will greatly inform one's searches on the internet when it comes to exploring a website in certain circumstances (eg folder structure). The utility of the PAF "book" style presentation on my Freepages is that anyone googling for a particular name can find it on my pages. Not many use my guestbook, most contact me directly after finding someone on my pages because it is obvious from the context that we have some kind of connection. I need to start updating and using my Freepages properly to present what I have done over the years, now that I have deliberately slowed my research (about 29 years' worth). I may need to make use of other websites, eg to archive photos, large files, databases at searching sites, and link to them from Freepages. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Pilet Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 9:15 AM To: Rootsweb NZ Rootsweb Subject: Re: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting I also use RootsWeb to host my site<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onmymothersside/>and it has been a solid and reliable platform for years now (more reliable than its owner who needs to update it sometime soon!). As you can see from the sites of the others who have posted about it, and my site, it allows for a variety of approaches to displaying content - you're not constrained by templates or too many rules. On the other hand, you do need to have some basic skills in web publishing to make your site attractive and easy to use. If you decide to go down the RootsWeb route (see what I did there!) my advice is to look at lots of other examples of peoples' pages first, identify the bits you like and 'design' your site on paper before creating it. Much easier to start with a structure in mind than try to change it later on (found out the hard way). Tracy -----Original Message----- From: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bryan P Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014 3:52 p.m. To: Rootsweb NZ Rootsweb Subject: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting I'm wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP's homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message