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Publishing your Family History on the Internet | ||
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Why? |
To share your research and make contact with fellow
researchers Getting it all down in a coherent manner |
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Look at other sites |
What attracts you to them? Are they easy to use? Do the pages download quickly (less than 10s) Can you read the pages? (backgrounds) Can you contact the author? |
SFHG members HGS members |
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Look at 'Aunty' |
The site loads quickly is readable, navigable, up to date, access to homepage on every page |
BBC |
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'No, No!' |
Special effects, |
Web Pages
That Suck! |
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'An Invitation to treat' |
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Layout - have one |
Have a home page Give each page a title Have a template Don't use unusual colour schemes Use columns - reading across a screen is not easy On each page a link to the home page Keep graphics small - use gif or jpg compression Include a contact email (as a graphic or dissected) Check time for pages to load |
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Software |
You will need software to author your web pages and software to load
them onto a website A file transfer programme, such as WS_FTP, or Core FTP is used to upload your webpages to the host. Your ISP may have examples of both these programmes.
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Webmonkey and HTML Goodies
Spider Writer, Xara Webstyle, WS_FTP are often available
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'Early to bed, |
Put the URL as a 'sig' (signature) on your emails
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But at the end of the day - it's your private website, the result of your hard work and payment, so...
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