Dear RootsWeb I have set up a mailmerge to post as html and have clicked on the "use with mailmerge" button, but there are no posts EVEN though the form gets to the mailmerge gateway. What am I doing wrong? Tx

Does for me now, too. But it certainly did NOT last night! Something flaky there, fursure. I've noticed other flakiness for the past several weeks: the occasional BAD REQUEST response, especially. Make sure Randy has a look-see, please. -R. Pat Asher wrote: > At 05:51 AM 3/27/2010, you wrote: > >> Search: >> Given name: jonathan >> Father: benedict >> Spouse: seel* >> Has descendants >> >> Produces 36 hits, including some with sources. >> >> Repeat above search, but also with "Sources" checked: produces no hits. >> > > > > > "With sources" checked produced 13 hits for me. > > > Pat Asher > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ 538 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 136,000+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: DAV4IS@YAHOO.COM A Democrat, a Republican and a giraffe walk into a bar. The bartender looks up from his want ads and says, "What is this, a joke?" -unknown

At 05:51 AM 3/27/2010, you wrote: >Search: >Given name: jonathan >Father: benedict >Spouse: seel* >Has descendants > >Produces 36 hits, including some with sources. > >Repeat above search, but also with "Sources" checked: produces no hits. "With sources" checked produced 13 hits for me. Pat Asher

Search: Given name: jonathan Father: benedict Spouse: seel* Has descendants Produces 36 hits, including some with sources. Repeat above search, but also with "Sources" checked: produces no hits. -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ 538 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 136,000+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: DAV4IS@YAHOO.COM A Democrat, a Republican and a giraffe walk into a bar. The bartender looks up from his want ads and says, "What is this, a joke?" -unknown

When we got our new spiffy website, the hit counter was gone. I'm not sure what to call it. We have SiteMeter, which is much more detailed, but I also liked the old one which counted each hit for each page. That told us whether a new frill was worth the trouble, or whether no one cared to look at it. I understand there are free ones to be had. Can anyone suggest a simple tool for very unskilled web masters? Nan Dixon, Jefferson County

Hi, I would like to thank everyone who offered suggestions to my dilemma. I did not realize the Ancestry banner was added by the server. I don't recall reading that anywhere on the Webmaster FAQs. I see that my main problem was not uploading my css file as well as some tag omissions. I won't have a chance to update my pages for a few days, and want to thank everyone now. I'm sure I'll be back with another question in the future. thanks, pat On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:01 AM, rootsweb-help-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Re: Help! I'm being hijacked by Ancestry (Patricia Geary) 2. Re: Help! I'm being hijacked by Ancestry (Patricia Geary) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:28:29 -0500 From: Patricia Geary <patgeary@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Help! I'm being hijacked by Ancestry To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <201002221228.o1MCSUgX020569@mail.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 10:49 PM 2/21/2010, Richard & Pat wrote: > I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my > wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. > For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and > external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. > When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my > CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the > page. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html =============== Pat, I believe from an earlier post that you are using Dreamweaver to develop your site. While I do not use the program, I do believe that if you have created an actual website on your hard drive that when you publish the site to the server it will be published with all the supporting files to the place on the server you indicate. As others have said, the RW banners are loaded from the server to your page when it is called by someone visiting your site. The banner code should not be on the pages on your hard drive unless you have saved them from the server. I cannot imagine that DW did not insert the basic tags you need for a page so you may have deleted some of them. doctype statement <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> <html> The link to your style sheet must include the correct path and the style sheet needs to be uploaded with the pages. File names - inlcuding those of images - should NOT have spaces. I recommend using a hyphen rather than underscore. Why? prettyredflower.jpg is seen as all one word. pretty-red-flower.jpg is seen as three words. If the file name uses an underscore and is a link, it is difficult to see the underscore. http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasher/basichtml.htm Also for html and css http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp I would also change what you have in the <title>index.html</title>. Use something meanful for the page. Pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:34:35 -0500 From: Patricia Geary <patgeary@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Help! I'm being hijacked by Ancestry To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <201002221234.o1MCYhKa004201@mail.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 10:49 PM 2/21/2010, Richard & Pat wrote: > I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my > wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. > For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and > external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. > When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my > CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the > page. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html =============== OK 2nd try since the first is messed up - my fault. Pat, I believe from an earlier post that you are using Dreamweaver to develop your site. While I do not use the program, I do believe that if you have created an actual website on your hard drive that when you publish the site to the server it will be published with all the supporting files to the place on the server you indicate. As others have said, the RW banners are loaded from the server to your page when it is called by someone visiting your site. The banner code should not be on the pages on your hard drive unless you have saved them from the server. I cannot imagine that DW did not insert the basic tags you need for a page so you may have deleted some of them. doctype statement <.html> <.head> <.title></title> <./head> <.body> </body> <.html> The link to your style sheet must include the correct path and the style sheet needs to be uploaded with the pages. File names - inlcuding those of images - should NOT have spaces. I recommend using a hyphen rather than underscore. Why? prettyredflower.jpg is seen as all one word. pretty-red-flower.jpg is seen as three words. If the file name uses an underscore and is a link, it is difficult to see the underscore. http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasher/basichtml.htm Also for html and css http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp I would also change what you have in the <title>index.html</title>. Use something meanful for the page. Pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/ ------------------------------ To contact the ROOTSWEB-HELP list administrator, send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. 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At 10:49 PM 2/21/2010, Richard & Pat wrote: >I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my >wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. >For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and >external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. >When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my >CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the >page. >http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html =============== OK 2nd try since the first is messed up - my fault. Pat, I believe from an earlier post that you are using Dreamweaver to develop your site. While I do not use the program, I do believe that if you have created an actual website on your hard drive that when you publish the site to the server it will be published with all the supporting files to the place on the server you indicate. As others have said, the RW banners are loaded from the server to your page when it is called by someone visiting your site. The banner code should not be on the pages on your hard drive unless you have saved them from the server. I cannot imagine that DW did not insert the basic tags you need for a page so you may have deleted some of them. doctype statement <.html> <.head> <.title></title> <./head> <.body> </body> <.html> The link to your style sheet must include the correct path and the style sheet needs to be uploaded with the pages. File names - inlcuding those of images - should NOT have spaces. I recommend using a hyphen rather than underscore. Why? prettyredflower.jpg is seen as all one word. pretty-red-flower.jpg is seen as three words. If the file name uses an underscore and is a link, it is difficult to see the underscore. http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasher/basichtml.htm Also for html and css http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp I would also change what you have in the <title>index.html</title>. Use something meanful for the page. Pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/

At 10:49 PM 2/21/2010, Richard & Pat wrote: >I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my >wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. >For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and >external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. >When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my >CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the >page. >http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html =============== Pat, I believe from an earlier post that you are using Dreamweaver to develop your site. While I do not use the program, I do believe that if you have created an actual website on your hard drive that when you publish the site to the server it will be published with all the supporting files to the place on the server you indicate. As others have said, the RW banners are loaded from the server to your page when it is called by someone visiting your site. The banner code should not be on the pages on your hard drive unless you have saved them from the server. I cannot imagine that DW did not insert the basic tags you need for a page so you may have deleted some of them. doctype statement <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> <html> The link to your style sheet must include the correct path and the style sheet needs to be uploaded with the pages. File names - inlcuding those of images - should NOT have spaces. I recommend using a hyphen rather than underscore. Why? prettyredflower.jpg is seen as all one word. pretty-red-flower.jpg is seen as three words. If the file name uses an underscore and is a link, it is difficult to see the underscore. http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasher/basichtml.htm Also for html and css http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp I would also change what you have in the <title>index.html</title>. Use something meanful for the page. Pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/

As soon as a page is uploaded, the banners are added. it's not a glitch or spamming or hijacking. BOTH banners should appear if your page has a closing head </ and closing body - make sure it has </ before the word head and body (body and head must open, then both must close). Make sure your basics of HTML are correct -- Doc Type, open HTML, title, description, close head, open body, close body, close head. Since there's no top Rootsweb banner, I'd think something is amiss with the basic tags. Tomorrow, one of the CSS gurus on the List will probably answer you more about the CSS part. Judy On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Richard & Pat <richpat@wideopenwest.com>wrote: > Hello, > I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my > wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. > For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and > external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. > When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my > CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the > page. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html > > When I view Page Source, the Ancestry code and Ancestry CSS style > sheet still appears with the code intact at the top of the page and > also at the bottom of the page. > I have tried everything I can think of to remove it. I have copied > the code from the Page Source view, pasted it into a new page, > renamed it, and stripped out the Ancestry coding and style sheet. ALL > TO NO AVAIL. > > When I click on my style sheet, ngs.css, none of my code is there-- > Only the Ancestry code. > This is on the last paragraph of my style sheet: The requested URL / > ~mings/2010/CSS/ngs.css was not found on this server. > > Interestingly, the same Ancestry problems appear in a new template > from Dreamweaver--no formatting, the banner appears at the top of the > page, and the site's css external sheet is filled with Ancestry code. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/test%20page.html > > I hope someone can figure it out and offer suggestions. > > > A thousand thank you's, > pat

You've got to upload the .css files, it can't and won't work without them. You should avoid using spaces... use test_page.html instead For http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/test%20page.html you are calling the style sheet: 3col_rightNav.css The requested URL /~mings/2010/3col_rightNav.css was not found on this server. 3col_rightNav.css should be in the same folder as test%20page.html For http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html you are calling the style sheet:<link href="CSS/ngs.css" The requested URL /~mings/2010/CSS/ngs.css was not found on this server. ngs.css should be in the folder /2010/CSS/ The folder does not exist on the server. CentOS - the operating system for the Rootsweb server is a UNIX like operating system, it is case sensitive. Judy J.A. Florian is correct that Rootsweb adds the banner, however they are not added when you upload the file they are added when the file is served. If you view your code on your local machine, or use your FTP client to download a file the code for the Rootsweb banner will not be present. Your site is for a society, it should have only the top banner. Judy's advise is right on regarding the basics of HTML. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html is missing the opening <body> tag which is causing the RW banner to be misplaced. I recommend you get Firefox and install and use the add-on Web Developer to validate your HTML and your CSS <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60?collection_uuid=da0ecd99-2289-7ab0-7d57-e7c489c845c3> Glenn Gilbert SKCGS <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ewaskcgs//index.html>Web Master On 2010-02-21 19:49, Richard & Pat wrote: > Hello, > I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my > wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. > For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and > external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. > When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my > CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the > page. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html > > When I view Page Source, the Ancestry code and Ancestry CSS style > sheet still appears with the code intact at the top of the page and > also at the bottom of the page. > I have tried everything I can think of to remove it. I have copied > the code from the Page Source view, pasted it into a new page, > renamed it, and stripped out the Ancestry coding and style sheet. ALL > TO NO AVAIL. > > When I click on my style sheet, ngs.css, none of my code is there-- > Only the Ancestry code. > This is on the last paragraph of my style sheet: The requested URL / > ~mings/2010/CSS/ngs.css was not found on this server. > > Interestingly, the same Ancestry problems appear in a new template > from Dreamweaver--no formatting, the banner appears at the top of the > page, and the site's css external sheet is filled with Ancestry code. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/test%20page.html > > I hope someone can figure it out and offer suggestions. > > > A thousand thank you's, > pat >

Hello, I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the page. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html When I view Page Source, the Ancestry code and Ancestry CSS style sheet still appears with the code intact at the top of the page and also at the bottom of the page. I have tried everything I can think of to remove it. I have copied the code from the Page Source view, pasted it into a new page, renamed it, and stripped out the Ancestry coding and style sheet. ALL TO NO AVAIL. When I click on my style sheet, ngs.css, none of my code is there-- Only the Ancestry code. This is on the last paragraph of my style sheet: The requested URL / ~mings/2010/CSS/ngs.css was not found on this server. Interestingly, the same Ancestry problems appear in a new template from Dreamweaver--no formatting, the banner appears at the top of the page, and the site's css external sheet is filled with Ancestry code. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/test%20page.html I hope someone can figure it out and offer suggestions. A thousand thank you's, pat

Hi Forrest, I have never done this so if you get a better response please ignore this message. I believe Rootsweb has a Unix-type operating system and they don't have any programs to run powerpoint applications. Therefore you need to create output files from Powerpoint in Html or PDF formats that will run on Rootsweb. Start by checking your Powerpoint HELP documentation to see if there is an easy way to do this. First check the "save as" feature. I have Powerpoint 2003 and I checked my documentation and was pointed to a site http:pptools.com/faq00312.htm and on this site it says that a program called Prep4PDF is available for sale for $89.95. Take some time to review this site as well as some of the discussion about the technical issues. One of the points made was that you could use other programs to generate PDF files but you would lose some of the Powerpoint features. If you can live without or find work arounds for those features you would not need the Prep4PDF program. Sorry I couldn't offer better solutions. Good Luck. Ron Morey Moreyatmilan @ comcast.net Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:54:58 -0600 From: Forrest Ladd <forladd@ionet.net> Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Need help getting PowerPoint to work on the Web I want to be able to upload PowerPoint presentations to a Rootsweb homepages site. If someone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and am using PowerPoint from Office 2007. Forrest Ladd

I've used a product called BCL easy PDF Printer for years. No hassles, just print any document and you have a PDF file. Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: <MoreyAtMilan@comcast.net> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] PowerPoint to work on Web > Hi Forrest, > > I have never done this so if you get a better response > please ignore this message. > > I believe Rootsweb has a Unix-type operating system > and they don't have any programs to run powerpoint applications. > Therefore you need to create output files from Powerpoint in > Html or PDF formats that will run on Rootsweb. Start by checking > your Powerpoint HELP documentation to see if there is an easy > way to do this. First check the "save as" feature. > > I have Powerpoint 2003 and I checked my documentation and was > pointed to a site http:pptools.com/faq00312.htm and on this site > it says that a program called Prep4PDF is available for sale for > $89.95. Take some time to review this site as well as some of > the discussion about the technical issues. One of the points made > was that you could use other programs to generate PDF files but > you would lose some of the Powerpoint features. If you can live > without or find work arounds for those features you would not need > the Prep4PDF program. > > Sorry I couldn't offer better solutions. Good Luck. > > Ron Morey > Moreyatmilan @ comcast.net > > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:54:58 -0600 > From: Forrest Ladd <forladd@ionet.net> > Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Need help getting PowerPoint to work on the > Web > > I want to be able to upload PowerPoint presentations to a Rootsweb > homepages site. If someone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate > hearing from you. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and am using > PowerPoint from Office 2007. > Forrest Ladd > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The best (and easiest) way I've found is to download Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/product/) and use Impress to convert your Power Point to an html presentation. It's really a piece of cake. Although these two examples don't contain sound or animation (which Impress will convert) you can see two examples at: http://www.donwhiteok.com/photos/index.html - The click on "View as slide show" is a straight forward conversion. The "Have Flash? What Slide Show" is the (just as easy) conversion for those who have a Flash player. Linda Haas Davenport homepage: http://www.lhaasdav.com MarionCoAR: http://www.argenweb.net/marion TulsaCoOK: http://www.tulsaokhistory.com TurleyOKHistSoc http://www.tulsaokhistory.com/turley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Forrest Ladd" <forladd@ionet.net> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:54 PM Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Need help getting PowerPoint to work on the Web |I want to be able to upload PowerPoint presentations to a Rootsweb | homepages site. If someone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate | hearing from you. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and am using | PowerPoint from Office 2007. | Forrest Ladd | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2696 - Release Date: 02/18/10 13:34:00

I want to be able to upload PowerPoint presentations to a Rootsweb homepages site. If someone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and am using PowerPoint from Office 2007. Forrest Ladd

Thanks to all of you who enlightened me. I followed your steps, and everything worked fine. THANKS!!!! pat On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Richard & Pat <richpat@wideopenwest.com>wrote: > Hi, Thanks for your suggestions. > I created a new folder within my Public Folder and put a test file in > it. > (I do not have any other folders as all my files are listed > separately.) I don't know if that makes a difference, > > How can I access the new folder? Only my present website files show > up when I bring up my site. > > It would be helpful if you would give me step by step instructions. > I use Dreamweaver for the Mac and Fetch to access my files. > > thanks again, > pat > >

Hi Dennis, Since Excel has fields identified by row ID and column ID create a new column (call it map) and use concatenate to combine the constant you want plus the variables to build the html anchor statement. Once you build the statement for one cell in the first row you can replicate the cell. Now the main problem becomes how to replace the space with the + sign. You will need to play with your formula to see if you can make it work. Use the help function and look at commands Substitute Possible example to try =concatenate(<a href="http://maps.google.com/?a=, substitute(c2," ","+"), ",", substitute(d2," ","+"), ">,Map</a>) where c2 and d2 are Excel cells in row 2. I built the example to show the parts, but you should build it all as one character string. Good luck. Ron Morey >Denny, > >This may do what you want. It should be fairly easy to use the Kompozer html >editor to create a link URL like this: >http://maps.google.com/?q=N38+51.482,W077+41.111 (Antioch+Baptist) >Unfortunately google likes plus signs instead of spaces but copy and paste >should be pretty workable for creating the links. No javascript needed if >you don't want to embed the map in your page. > >Jim Rickenbacker >

Even though it is not linked to your site, it still has a URL therefore, place its name in the each browser's window and the page will pop up. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Richard & Pat <richpat@wideopenwest.com>wrote: > Hi, Thanks for your suggestions. > I created a new folder within my Public Folder and put a test file in > it. > (I do not have any other folders as all my files are listed > separately.) I don't know if that makes a difference, > > How can I access the new folder? Only my present website files show > up when I bring up my site. > > It would be helpful if you would give me step by step instructions. > I use Dreamweaver for the Mac and Fetch to access my files. > > thanks again, > pat > >

I see that the email software has dropped the closing paren from the URL. The complete URL ends with (Antioch+Baptist). Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rickenbacker(3)" <j3mr2@borisbrooks.com> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Populating a program with data from a table Denny, This may do what you want. It should be fairly easy to use the Kompozer html editor to create a link URL like this: http://maps.google.com/?q=N38+51.482,W077+41.111(Antioch+Baptist) Unfortunately google likes plus signs instead of spaces but copy and paste should be pretty workable for creating the links. No javascript needed if you don't want to embed the map in your page. Jim Rickenbacker

Denny, This may do what you want. It should be fairly easy to use the Kompozer html editor to create a link URL like this: http://maps.google.com/?q=N38+51.482,W077+41.111(Antioch+Baptist) Unfortunately google likes plus signs instead of spaces but copy and paste should be pretty workable for creating the links. No javascript needed if you don't want to embed the map in your page. Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rickenbacker(3)" <j3mr2@borisbrooks.com> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Populating a program with data from a table Denny, I don't know of any way to do what you want without fat-fingering the information in to the Google map script. A possible alternative is to use Google Earth (free) to create a .kmz file of locations and descriptions which Google Map can use for display. You should be able to copy and paste the locations and descriptions into Google Earth. Three maps using this approach are here: http://www.borisbrooks.com/genealogy/google/ All other solutions I can think of require programming an active web page (which rootsweb doesn't allow). Jim Rickenbacker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Wolstenholme" <dennywj_8@hotmail.com> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Populating a program with data from a table Thanks for responding to my query. The map is an applcation using google maps. I am not a programmer but rather a seek, cut and paste kind of guy. I don't recreate the wheel. Copy and adapt. I realized I did not provide an enouph information for a good response. I added to my web site the map that I was able to adjust to display one of our cemeteries. It also contains the table with all our cemeteries. I use Kompozer to build most of my web pages. The cemetery list (425 cemeteries) was Excel that I imported into Kompozer and made some adjustments. My object is to allower a user to either click on the cemetery name or an icon near it and have a map appear the shows where the cemetery is located. I have the Lat and Long. in the cemetery table. The HTML for the map shows how it is used. I need to figure out how to transfer the info from the table to the map without fat fingeringine it in for each cemetery. Denny W. > From: j3mr2@borisbrooks.com > To: rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:20:44 -0600 > Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Populating a program with data from a table > > Denny, > > What is your map program? Is it a web or a computer application? > > Jim Rickenbacker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dennis Wolstenholme" <dennywj_8@hotmail.com> > To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:33 PM > Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Populating a program with data from a table > > > > I have a list of cemeteries that contains Latitude and Longitude. I have > another program that takes Lat. and Long. and produces a map marking the > location with the name of the cemetery. I would like to allow a user to > click on the name of the cemetery and have the map appear. Basicallyit > would link the data from the cemetery table and put it in the map program. > I am not a programmer but could struggle through this if someone could > give > me some ideas as to how the map program could pull the data from the > table. > My site is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapwcgs/. The cemetery table > is under the "Our Projects" tab, then "Cemeteries" then "Prince William > Cemeteries". > > > > Denny W. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com 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 > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com 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 ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message