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From: Lynn V <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] What's essential to a great genealogy website?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:58:32 -0500
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Jennifer,

I will insert my 2 cents on this topic about "last updated" sites, and
your concern about remembering when your site was last updated.

I began putting my changes in the head of my page. See below (formatting
is lost). This way, I can see when and what changes were made. Yes, it
can get too long, but I do remove the older parts. This is just another
option to tracking your changes. I was shown this in an html class I
took way back when.

Lynn V (lurking again)

This has leading periods in case someone's email hiccups on my example.
.<!--
************************************************************
Modification History
Document created on May 2, 2000 date published May 2, 2000
************************************************************
mm/dd/yy your-name Changes made
Ap/29/01 L Veitch background color
table color
bkground image


**********************************
Sept/15/06 L Veitch added new background image
validated html/css

**********************************
Nov/29/09 L Veitch css rollover added
new table lay-out
added
new look all
over began
new graphics
added-tree and designby
validated html/css
**********************************
Jan/18/10 L Veitch New css layout
No tables used
************************************************************
.-->

On 9/15/2010 4:57 PM, Jennifer McKemie wrote:
> I like "last updated" dates..more for myself than for my visitors...so I
> know when I last tinkered with a page...isn't there a way to incorporate the
> last updated feature in such a way as to only be visible to the creator? in
> the view source, or something?
>
> And Judy, could you elaborate on the dates in metatags? I used a generator
> for mine and sure enough, it has a date...is the date unneccesary?
>
> Thanks to everyone who is contributing to this thread--learning tons and so
> many ideas to get a girl thinking!
> Jen
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:20 AM, J.A. Florian<> wrote:
>
>> Since genealogy is "old data", I don't see a problem with "out of date"
>> sites. As another example, I put newspaper items on my sites. Once a page
>> is full with the image plus transcription, it's full -- so it won't be
>> updated.
>>
>> Personally, I don't like the "last update" statements. As a piece of
>> trivia, "last updated" returns 127,000,000 results. Even minus java
>> scripts
>> et al, that's a ton of "last updated" statements on the 'Net.
>>
>>
>> On a related note, one META TAG on content can specify that the page(s)
>> "never" expires for Google bots. Many WYSIWYG programs stick in a date
>> there. Worth looking at to see if your site has the tag and what it
>> specifies (a date? never?)
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Tom Beatty<>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> One of my pet peeves is finding a website that is way out-of-date. You'll
>>> often see "last updated May 23, 2004," or some other long-ago date. If
>> the
>>> site's worth having, then it's worth keeping current. TRB
>>>
>>> Tom Beatty
>>> Georgetown, KY
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