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From: "Jill Muir" <>
Subject: RE: [FreeHelp] MY APOLOGIES
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:57:40 +0100
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20050726064723.02413c90@spamarrest.com>


Goodness Pat, don't do that! Your response was as always helpful. I know
when I read it I didn't think this was incorrect in anyway, in fact I was
most interested as I was at one time playing around with a title for mine
'Jill's Genealogy'.

Cheers Jill
Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, Oxfordshire
See Glamorgan Mailing List website at:-
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glamorgan/
My Family history website:-
http://www.muir.clara.net/villagesnapshot

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Geary [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:54 AM
To:
Subject: [FreeHelp] MY APOLOGIES

My apologies to this list if my response to Holly's message was considered
inappropriate. It certainly was not meant that way. Perhaps my answers are
not always the most diplomatic BUT they are only meant to help. I enjoy
passing on what I have learned and helping others as a way of saying thank
you for help I have received both from this list and other lists.

I'll lurk for a while and keep my opinions to myself.

pat



At 12:35 PM 7/25/2005 -0400, Patricia Geary wrote:
>At 10:44 AM 7/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>I love your pages but my only suggestion would be to change the title in
the
>>head section to something more searchable even by Rootsweb. Currently it
>>will show up in the Js for Jane.
>
>Each page title should reflect what that page is actually about and should
>be repeated in the H1 header. What phrases will people search on to find
>your pages? Using Jane as an example - sorry Jane. Janes genealogy Jigsaw,
>Genealogy by Jane OR (Insert Name) Family Genealogy, Brighton Vermont
>Records, etc.
>
>>Big project, revising pages.
>
>Major job especially if it is a large site.
>
>> I think everyone's web site should reflect what pleases
>>them. I think it was Pat Asher who said that you should like the way your
>>pages look because you're the one who'll look at them most.
>
>You are correct in that you have to like the way your site looks. But is
>that its main purpose? Or do you want people to actually visit your site
>and use it. If so
> * it needs to be easy to navigate
> * it should not take forever to load. Lot's of people still have old
> computers and dialup Internet access
> * Don't try and put all the info on one page - divide it up - you can
> never tell on which page they will enter your site = NOT necessarily the
> main page
> * take the time to learn at least the basics of html so that you can
> fix mistakes - make sure the site looks like you expect it to look in
> more than just IE. I am always willing to check a site in more than one
> browser to see if it looks ok. IE is much more forgiving than Firefox or
> one of the other browsers
> * Graphics should add something to the page not just deposited
> willy-nilly because they are "cute."
>I'm sure there are many more thoughts on this but thought I'd chime in
>with my two cents.
>
>pat
>
>
>____________
>Pat Geary
>http://www.family-genealogy-online.com/
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~vamscdar/
>http://family-genealogy-online.com/building-webpages.htm
>
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