Is anyone else having problems with RW guestbook errors?? I received the following message concerning the GB at http://resources.rootsweb.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/public_guestbook.cgi?gb=889 &action=view I've checked it several times & I cannot duplicate the problem. I'm open to any suggestions anyone might have as to what is causing this individual to get this error message Thanks Ray = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > For a week or two every time I try to look at guestbook I get an error > message. > > Internet Explore Script Error > > An Error has occurred > > Line 4125 > Char 1 > Error object expected > Code 0 > URL::http://resources > rootsweb.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/public_guestbook.cgi?=889&action-view > > Do you want to continue running script on this page? > > yes or no > > Just for your info, I do not know how to get rid of the error message. I just > say yes.

I am curious how often updates are picked up by the ht://dig search engine. Information added to my site two weeks ago are not being picked up. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvpocaho/search.htm#pocahontas Thanks in advance for any help/guidance, Barbara Tallman Gramp Coordinator - WVGenWeb Pocahontas Co. Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvpocaho/ Archivist - USGenWeb WV Archives, Pocahontas Co. http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/wv/pocahont.htm

At 11:33 PM 04/07/2002 -0400, bgramp wrote: >I am curious how often updates are picked up by the ht://dig search >engine. Information added to my site two weeks ago are not being picked >up. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvpocaho/search.htm#pocahontas GenSeeker, running ht://dig search engine, is not reindexing at this time. This is a temporary preventative measure. The hard drive is fragile and is scheduled to be replaced. When the new hard drive is in, a new index will be built & things will be back to normal. Regards, Elsi

Does anyone know how the code for rotating images? One that gives visitors a different image each time they visit/reload a page. I've found two codes but they only work with multiple images (meaning 2-4 images that rotate within themselves on the same page - one load of the page gives you graphics 1, 2, 3 side-by-side, the next load you get the same graphics but in a different order - 2, 3, 1...). I want one graphic per load that changes to a completely different graphic the next time you load the page. Anyone have the answer?? :) I don't want an animated gif as the images I plan to use will not work in this format (too large/too colourful) Thanks in advance!

Index of / ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bin <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/bin> 0 04/06/02 11:00:00 am directory boot <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/boot> 0 03/08/01 12:00:00 am directory dev <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/dev> 0 12/26/01 10:02:00 am directory etc <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/etc> 0 04/06/02 11:00:00 am directory home <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/home> 0 12/19/01 09:52:00 am directory lib <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/lib> 0 05/15/01 12:00:00 am directory lost+found <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/lost+found> 0 07/01/00 12:00:00 am directory misc <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/misc> 0 02/28/00 12:00:00 am directory mnt <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/mnt> 0 07/01/00 12:00:00 am directory opt <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/opt> 0 07/01/00 12:00:00 am directory proc <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/proc> 0 12/26/01 06:51:00 pm directory root <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/root> 0 03/27/02 02:33:00 pm directory sbin <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepag%0Ae%0As.rootsweb.com/sbin> 0 04/06/02 11:00:00 am directory staff <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/staff> 0 04/06/02 12:01:00 am directory tftpboot <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/tftpboot> 0 07/01/00 12:00:00 am directory tmp <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/tmp> 0 04/06/02 04:02:00 am directory u1 <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/u1> 0 03/24/02 05:53:00 pm directory usr <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/usr> 0 07/01/00 12:00:00 am directory var <ftp://manifest:iTBMV2XT@homepages.rootsweb.com/var> 0 < td>0 7/01/00 12:00:00 am directory

When I ftp into my home pages at manifest:[password]@homepages.rootsweb.com I get what I have captured and sent in part 2 of this message. (In netscape message composition it is imposible to write anything in the same message with the stuff I captured.) I don't think I am supposed to be in this directory. I don't see public.html here. What is up? ---John

At 01:26 PM 04/06/2002 -0500, John Lucey wrote: >When I ftp into my home pages at >manifest:[password]@homepages.rootsweb.com I get what I have captured >and sent in >part 2 of this message. (In netscape message composition it is >imposible to write anything in the same message with the stuff I captured.) > >I don't think I am supposed to be in this directory. > >I don't see public.html here. > >What is up? John -- you're at the root directory for the server, not inside your account. I strongly suspect that this is because you entered the URL like this -- ftp://manifest:password@homepages.rootsweb.com/ instead of like this -- ftp://manifest:password@homepages.rootsweb.com Experimentation bears that out. Leave the trailing slash off of your URL and you'll be placed into your account directory and will see the public_html directory. I strongly discourage trying to use the browser as an FTP client. If you are not planning on getting an FTP utility program, then we'd recommend using the HomePages file manager at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi However -- having posted your password to the list in your message #2, you need to send a note to accounts@rootsweb.com and request a password reset. Regards, Elsi

W David Samuelsen wrote: > I'm not using CSS. It's the Table Cell method. > > David Yes, I looked at your pages. If you add the style="border-color:red" property to the Table tag, as in my first example, you will get a red border on that table. I tested it and it works as advertised with your page as coded. CSS is completely compatible with the use of tables. You can add the style= to each table where you want a colored border, or you can use the .css file and the class= property WITHOUT ripping up what you have already coded. A note about Netscape Navigator 4.x: It's support of CSS is very spotty, and the above will have no effect on table borders in that browser. -R.

At 09:40 AM 04/06/2002 -0700, W David Samuelsen wrote: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-ayre-wg.htm > >Got different code and the color is showing as blue. > >How does the IE see it ??? You're using bordercolor="#000080" in your table tag. Netscape 4.75 shows a blue 3-d frame (left & upper bars light blue, bottom and right bars dark blue). IE 5.0 shows a blue flat frame (all bars are the same color) Opera 6.0 shows a grey 3-d frame. The inner bevel in NS is grey, in IE it is blue. One other observation. NS has applied your cellspacing attribute to the outer perimeter of the entire table. Neither IE nor Opera do this. Therefore both of these browsers have the surrounding text flush up against the right edge of your table. I believe that a <div> tag may help move the text over -- but since I get really confused with divs, I'm not a good one to advise you here. Regards, Elsi Regards, Elsi

At 08:03 AM 04/06/2002 -0700, W David Samuelsen wrote: >I'm not using CSS. It's the Table Cell method. > >David > >Rod Dav4is wrote: >> >> Personally, I prefer no border at all. For me, a frame is mere distraction from >> the content, which is the image itself. >> That said, to set the frame color, use CSS, e.g.: >> >> <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:red" ... [red] >> <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:#00FF00" ... [green] >> <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:rgb(0,0,255)" ... [blue] <!-- snip --> Rod's point is that the only generalized way you can dictate the color of the frame itself is through the use of CSS attributes on your table cells. IE supports non-standard tag properties of BORDERCOLOR, BORDERCOLORDARK, and BORDERCOLORLIGHT <table bordercolor="green" border="10"> <table bordercolordark="darkred" bordercolorlight="salmon" border="10") Just as in browsers that don't support CSS, visitors who don't use IE won't see your colors. Therefore, you should make sure that it at least looks OK in all browsers and then decide how much 'eye candy' you want to supply to the other visitors. Regards, Elsi

http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-ayre-wg.htm Got different code and the color is showing as blue. How does the IE see it ??? Advise please David

I'm not using CSS. It's the Table Cell method. David Rod Dav4is wrote: > > Personally, I prefer no border at all. For me, a frame is mere distraction from > the content, which is the image itself. > That said, to set the frame color, use CSS, e.g.: > > <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:red" ... [red] > <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:#00FF00" ... [green] > <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:rgb(0,0,255)" ... [blue] > > Persons using browsers that don't understand CSS -- e.g. older versions -- will > simply see the default frame color. > You can also use a centralized CSS notation and file to control the color of all > your frames from one place: > > <Head> > ... > <LINK REL="stylesheet" type="text/css" HREF="master.css"> > </Head> > ... > <TABLE BORDER="10" class=portrait ... > <TABLE BORDER="10" class=building ... > > And provide a file named "master.css" (or whatever), containing: > > table.portrait { > border-color:rgb(166,125,61); > } > > table.building { > border-color:silver; > } > > The CSS file may be located anywhere; your base folder is a good central > location. Just don't forget to provide a proper url in the HREF property of the LINK > tag so that the browsers can find it. Note also that the brackets in the CSS file > are the curly sort. Other CSS markup can be included, such as this, to override the > html for buildings: > > table.building { > border-color:silver; > border-width:3px; > } > > Other possibilities exist. ;o) > > -R. > > W David Samuelsen wrote: > > > I need your help.... look at the photograph frames in those two > > ones. > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-ayre-wg.htm > > < > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-travillion-wallacew.htm > > > > > > > Now that you've seen them. > > > > Which one is better, thin or wide frames? > > > > And anyone has code to insert color inside the frames of the > > photographs (I don't mean background behind the photos themselves). > > > > W. David Smauelsen > > -- > Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA > Genealogy, et Cetera: http://dav4is.8m.com 298 ancestral & collateral families, > mostly 17th-19th century New England & European roots, total population: 67,241 > Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Personally, I prefer no border at all. For me, a frame is mere distraction from the content, which is the image itself. That said, to set the frame color, use CSS, e.g.: <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:red" ... [red] <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:#00FF00" ... [green] <TABLE BORDER="10" style="border-color:rgb(0,0,255)" ... [blue] Persons using browsers that don't understand CSS -- e.g. older versions -- will simply see the default frame color. You can also use a centralized CSS notation and file to control the color of all your frames from one place: <Head> ... <LINK REL="stylesheet" type="text/css" HREF="master.css"> </Head> ... <TABLE BORDER="10" class=portrait ... <TABLE BORDER="10" class=building ... And provide a file named "master.css" (or whatever), containing: table.portrait { border-color:rgb(166,125,61); } table.building { border-color:silver; } The CSS file may be located anywhere; your base folder is a good central location. Just don't forget to provide a proper url in the HREF property of the LINK tag so that the browsers can find it. Note also that the brackets in the CSS file are the curly sort. Other CSS markup can be included, such as this, to override the html for buildings: table.building { border-color:silver; border-width:3px; } Other possibilities exist. ;o) -R. W David Samuelsen wrote: > I need your help.... look at the photograph frames in those two > ones. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-ayre-wg.htm > < > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-travillion-wallacew.htm > > > > Now that you've seen them. > > Which one is better, thin or wide frames? > > And anyone has code to insert color inside the frames of the > photographs (I don't mean background behind the photos themselves). > > W. David Smauelsen -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://dav4is.8m.com 298 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17th-19th century New England & European roots, total population: 67,241 Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/

I need your help.... look at the photograph frames in those two ones. http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-ayre-wg.htm < http://www.rootsweb.com/~orbaker/database/bios/md-travillion-wallacew.htm > Now that you've seen them. Which one is better, thin or wide frames? And anyone has code to insert color inside the frames of the photographs (I don't mean background behind the photos themselves). W. David Smauelsen

just the links, I don't see problems at all. After all the main object is genealogy and history, is it not? David Bird wrote: > > Tonight my daughter uploaded my web site for me. > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bird/ > > My question is : > I have links to my pet pages which are on geocities but which my daughter > will change shortly . > I have links to my friends and One very good friend has an online store. > One friend runs a resort and one friend has a bed and breakfast. These > people have my main research name of Harkey. The bed and breakfast is in a > historical Home that belonged to an Ancestor, Obviously these people sell > things or services. I love my friends and cousins. Is this a no-no for me > to have links to them? If it is then I will remove the links. > Mary Harkey Russell > bird@glasgow-ky.com > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bird/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Tonight my daughter uploaded my web site for me. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bird/ My question is : I have links to my pet pages which are on geocities but which my daughter will change shortly . I have links to my friends and One very good friend has an online store. One friend runs a resort and one friend has a bed and breakfast. These people have my main research name of Harkey. The bed and breakfast is in a historical Home that belonged to an Ancestor, Obviously these people sell things or services. I love my friends and cousins. Is this a no-no for me to have links to them? If it is then I will remove the links. Mary Harkey Russell bird@glasgow-ky.com http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bird/

Peggy is also a coordinator at IrelandGenWeb of the WorldGenWeb. You might want to check out the main page at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com Then go to the county links and she is listed there for one of the counties. Denise Region of Campania Coordinator Campania, Italy of WorldGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~itawgw/prov/04/4main.htm

In a message dated 4/1/02 9:01:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, SGTaylor1@att.net writes: > Instead of repeating my thank you, I'm sending this to the both of you. > Thank you both for your advise. I'm also posting this reply on the RootsWeb > list incase Peggy Tebbetts of: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~peggy/plymouth.html > > is lurking. I just sent her an E-mail asking: > > 1. To turn over the administration of the Surname Helper for Plymouth > County to me by giving me the password. > > or > > 2. For her to go in and change the settings to indicate the correct > USGenWeb Plymouth County, MA site, etc.... > > I'm worried I might never hear from her for she may not be active on-line > anymore because her site hasn't been updated for over a year and it > contains several old links. As to whether she was ever CC of USGenWeb > Plymouth County, I haven't the foggiest because I took over from CW in Dec > 2000 and he had been CC for a few years. I asked him how all the > surname/query pages on the site operated and he didn't know or couldn't > remember. I also asked him about the administration of the board: > > RootsWeb Message Boards [ Plymouth ] > > He said something to the effect he hadn't done anything with it and didn't > know or couldn't remember if any passwords were involved with any of it. If > he was the official administration of the board and he doesn't know how to > change it, etc.... What should be done - what should I do? > > ****Help!!!!**** Are all these utilities: Surname Helper, the board, > etc.... under separate administration or does it come under the > responsibility of the cc of the county? > > TIA. > > --- Susan Susan- Let's back up and take things one step at a time. Surname Helper is a search engine--nothing more, and anyone can register a site (USGenWeb or otherwise) with Surname Helper. Surname Helper indexes the surnames on messages on boards and pages that are registered with it on a regular basis and, in addition, creates a master surname list. To address your questions, the first step is to try to contact Peggy which you have indicated above you have done. I'm assuming that the email didn't bounce and that you are awaiting a reply. As for the RootsWeb message board for Plymouth County, MA--it has an admin: Margaret King, meggo@JTSE.com If you would like to link to this board to satisfy your USGenWeb query board requirement you may do so--you do NOT have to be the board admin in order to do this. The RootsWeb boards are not officially connected to USGenWeb although many admins DO admin the boards for their counties if they are available for adoption. The RootsWeb message boards do not use Surname Helper as their search engine--they have their own more sophisticated search engine that is capable of performing every word searches as well as surname searches for individual boards or for all boards. Joan

You can link to the Rootsweb site without asking permission but be aware that if those pages ever change or are removed that your links to them will then be ineffectual. I'd eventually try to import all the pages of the 40 that are linked. Hope that helps, Wendy Loveless http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lovelace earliest ancestor: Stephen H. and Eleanor Armstrong Loveless MD - OH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Girtman" <rgirtman@attbi.com> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: [RW-Help] link etiquette help > I need help with a question of linking. > > I have an 1893 County Biography book I am transcribing for my County > page. There are about 400 Biographies in the book that I will be > transcribing and putting online. 40 of these are already online at the > Rootsweb message board for this county. I have transcribed 25 more so > far and am doing about 4 a day. Instead of transcribing the 40 that are > at the message board, I have added links to them, plainly stating that > they are not at my web-site but are at the Rootsweb message board. My > goal is to list all 400 Bios in the book and tell visitors where to find > them, whether it is on my page or the Rootsweb message board. > > Do I need or *should* I get permission from Rootsweb and/or the > submitter of those Biographies to link to them individually or should I > just link to the main page of the message board and tell visitors to dig > through the 800 messages there and find them themselves? > > Please help, I want to do this right. > > Thanks, > Rick > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I need help with a question of linking. I have an 1893 County Biography book I am transcribing for my County page. There are about 400 Biographies in the book that I will be transcribing and putting online. 40 of these are already online at the Rootsweb message board for this county. I have transcribed 25 more so far and am doing about 4 a day. Instead of transcribing the 40 that are at the message board, I have added links to them, plainly stating that they are not at my web-site but are at the Rootsweb message board. My goal is to list all 400 Bios in the book and tell visitors where to find them, whether it is on my page or the Rootsweb message board. Do I need or *should* I get permission from Rootsweb and/or the submitter of those Biographies to link to them individually or should I just link to the main page of the message board and tell visitors to dig through the 800 messages there and find them themselves? Please help, I want to do this right. Thanks, Rick