Judy, That is a nice layout. What does <th> mean? In my case the photos will be already cropped to 488 pixels wide. I used to use thumbnails but no longer use them. So I will link each name to a photo link. Nice table, thank you. Charles > Hi Charles, > > There's no *easy* answer, unfortunately. > > Here's how I'd do it. > > 1. Get an *idea* of how you'd like it to be arranged, IF possible to do. > But.... > 2. Wait to get the CD before finalizing your plan. > 3. Visit the Fayette Co PAGenWeb -- they have a large cemetery photo > database. See if you like their design. > If you do, Click View Source and save it as a TXT file. > 4. When you get the CD, browse through them in the Details view of Windows > Explorer - gives size. > As you browse, note if you'll have to crop sides and bottom BEFORE deciding > on a uniform size. > 5. I'd arrange by > -- Cemetery first > ---By Surname second > (By date or by cemetery row is just too hard). > 6. Copy all the pics to a backup drive. Work on them on the backup drive. > Do all cropping first--- keep in mind what size you want for all photos. > 7. Decide on a uniform width x height and begin revising each photo to that > size. At the end of each filename put something like _d for "done" OR move > each to a "done re-sizing" folder. > 8. Decide how many you want per folder. Move sets into separate folders. > 9. Make thumbnails using EasyThumbnails free program. Make sure to do a > test on 1 photo. use the settings tab to set your height and width for > thumb size > 10 decide how many thumbs you can put on a horizontal line... make your > table for all the "A" names... 1 for "B" names, etc. On some alphabet > letters (C, L, M, Mc, R, S, T, V, W) you will likely need several pages > (s_names_1.html and keep numbering each till the last one) > 11. Make 1 html page of thumbnails. > 12. Label each thumbnail. > 13. Go back to the large photos. Decide how you want to present them. It > is MUCH harder to do one html page for each larger photo. > It is much EASIER to just link a thumbnail directly to its corresponding big > picture, without it being on a web page (not one you make). But you won't > be able to add a title under the picture. So if you have photoshop, you > could add text to each photo, like maybe the cemetery name? Or a copyright > and phototaker name? Visitors will see the deceased's info on the > tombstone. A pic without an html page just opens on a white rootsweb page. > 15. If you do the pic-no page route, just link each thumb to its bigger > picture. > 16. upload after doing 1 folder of pics-- makes it easier and faster to > upload. > 17. If you don't want others to have access to a folder of pics (as a > directory only), put an index.htm page in that folder. On the page, just > have navigation back to the site's main page AND the A-B-C-D navigation to > the cemetery photos, or at least to the cemetery/index.htm (the main index > page for the whole project) > 18. I forgot, do a navigation table of A, B, C, D for each surname letter. > If one letter has 2 pages, llink to a "Main page for the Letter A" for > example. But instead of a "page" for this table, put it in an _include. > Much easier to link to one _include, rather than have to manually put the > nav table on every page. > > Other people might do it differently. I've never found an easy way to do a > huge pic project. Take it one section at a time. And, good luck-- you'll > be working for many months. > > Judy > PS I use Frontpage too. > > > > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Charles Barnum <jcnreno@charter.net> wrote: > > >> Good New Year to you All, >> Cemetery Survey: >> A lady is sending me 500 headstone photos on disk and sending me the >> names in a special format I asked her to use. >> Name; date one; date two; comments. >> I usually convert that to a table in MS Word using the ";" as the column >> separator. (The lady does not have Excel.) Then, I usually convert that >> to Excel and then decide if I want a table or <pre> text form for the >> web page. However, I have discovered a way to convert a Word file >> directly into a <pre> format for using Expression Web 3. (Expression Web >> 3 is a glorified program of FrontPage that has massive flaws when it >> comes to tables.) >> What is the best way to display a 500 name cemetery file with linked >> photos? How do you do it? I use EW3 but often fall back to using >> FrontPage because it is easier to use and does not crash like EW3 does. >> >> Happy New Year, all is well that ends well. >> Charles >> > > ------------------------------- > 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: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2596 - Release Date: 01/01/10 01:20:00 > >

At 06:54 PM 1/1/2010, you wrote: >What does <th> mean? <th> = table header pat