Welcome to wood shop 101, I hope yall all brought your tools.
What I would like to do is spend a few minutes talking with yall about 1) Why
and 2) how to build a genealogy home page. Yes you in the back wearing the Michigan
Jaymakers Sweet Shirt? No, I really don’t think we will need a chain saw but
thanks for offering yours; I will keep it in mind.
First thing you need to do, is go get some web space. (No, I don’t mean
spider webs) You can get free web space from a number of different places:
1. http://www.rootsweb.com/
2. http://www.free.20m.com/
3. http://www.homestead.com/
4. http://www.fortunecity.com/
5. http://www.tripod.com/
And literally hundreds of others they will give you free space. Go ahead, go sign
up for one of them, I will wait. (Twiddling thumbs).
OK, everyone back? Good, now the next thing you need to do is deciding what you
want to put on the page. Sit down and draw up the page. You aint gotta be a
great artist but you want to get the page organized before you start building it. I
wanna share my new home page as an exampleof what you might want to put on your home page.
The URL is www.angelfire.com/tx2/UncleHiram/test2.htm
If you notice, I put a family photo on the right side, and all the groups that Iam
involved with on the left. On the right side under the photo, I put a short bio of
my family. In the center I put some of the names I am researching and on the left
side I put links to downloadable documents about my family. Now I aint saying you
gotta do it this way, or even that this is the best way to do it but it is an easily
understood and used format.
Now the how to do it. After you have drawnup your home page, you need to start
building it. There are literally thousands of programs out there that will help you
build a website. I use Claris and Microsoft Front Page. The first thing you do
is pick out a background. Try to pick out something that will compliment the
materials and not dominate them. Then put a “Table” on the page.
This will give you little windows to place items in. After you put all your
items in the little windows, right click on the Table. This will bring up several
options, choose Table properties, go in and change the border thickness to “0”.
That way the table is invisible.
If you have Microsoft word, you can build the whole page just like a normal document
then save it as a HTML instead of a Doc file. I want to warn you though that
these web pages get real picky on spelling. So if you want to show a photo called
Rufus.jpg, make sure you type it in the exact same way. After you build the whole
page and you get it looking exactly like you want it, go in and change all the“location”
of all the photos and the background. Instead of the location being “C:/mydocuments/Rufus.jpg”
it needs to be “Rufus.jpg”. Another thing to remember is put everything in
the same file. For example save the Rufus.jpg and the HTML (That’s the home
Page) in a file folder named “My Page”.
DON’T PUT ANYTHING ON THE PAGE YOU DON’T WANT YOUR GRANDMA TO READ ABOUT.
Also don’t put exact birth dates, phone numbers or your social security
number. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to have that information on any
living person.
Adios and
Keep Smiling
Unk HIram
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