Backup Your Website!
My website has disappeared, what could have happened to it? I deleted some of the pages on my site, can I get them back? My hard drive crashed and I lost all of my files. Have you heard this or...
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Background Colors
Are you setting background and text color to your Web page? If not, you may not be happy with what your viewer sees. Many designers think that white is the default and that a background color is only...
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Framed Web Sites
Does your genealogy web site use frames? If so, this may cause you a problem with the search engines indexing your site. Google says: “Google supports frames to the extent that it can. Frames can cause...
View ArticleRootsWeb Accounts – UserName & Password
How To Get Your User Name Or Password From My Account One frequent question on the various RootsWeb Mailing lists, is how an I make changes to my wesite as I have forgotten my username and password. A...
View ArticlePedigree Chart Template
A recent question on the RootsWeb FreePages mailing list asked about a template for a Pedigree chart written in html that could be posted on their web site. While I personally prefer to post my GEDCOM...
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RootsWeb FreePages Banners and XHTML Doctype
RootsWeb recently revised the masthead banners that are displayed on all free hosted websites. If you are using the HTML Transitional doctype and your pages already validate, you should experience no...
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Using Rootsweb Online Editor
Creating Your Own Freepage on RootsWeb By Jana Lloyd Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 11 June 2008, Vol. 11, No. 16 I have added notes/comments to this article originally written by Jana Lloyd....
View ArticleHow Would You Recommend a Novice Get Started Using CSS?
I just finished reading the article How Would You Recommend a Novice Get Started Using CSS? by Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks. He says: I get this one a lot and it’s surprisingly difficult to answer. The...
View ArticleCreating and Validating a Rootsweb Guestbook
If you are using the RootsWeb guestbook, you already know that it does not validate. And it does not matter if you are using an HTML or XHTML doctype. Would you like to know to remedy that? Follow this...
View ArticleLimiting Window Size
A recent question on the RootsWeb Freepages Mailing list was: For some files on a Freepages site I’m in the process of developing, I would like to restrict the size of the page window to a fraction of...
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What’s happened to Rootsweb?
At about 1:30 p.m. MT on Monday, June 16, 2014, attackers targeted Ancestry with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS),’ wrote Scott Sorensen, chief technology officer for the site. Read more:...
View ArticleRootsWeb Online Editor Discontinued
We will be discontinuing this RootsWeb Online Editor on July 31st, 2017. RootsWeb FreePages users will need to use an FTP client to upload and modify files starting August 1st, 2017. Many of our users...
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RootsWeb Sites are Being Restored
As many folks in the genealogy community are aware, the sites hosted on RootsWeb have been down a very long time. The good news is they are slowly being restored. GenWeb sites are the first ones to...
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