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From: Ian Singer <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Presenting pictures in a list - looking for a betterway...?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:15:38 -0400
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On 9/27/2010 7:37 PM, Jennifer McKemie wrote:

> Not sure what the "banker" is...the default header or footer from
> Rootsweb? On my view (IE) it lines up well, not a lot of space
> anywhere...however, I have not yet viewed the pages with any other
> browsers...if you are seeing a lot of space with Explorer, perhaps
> you could take a screenshot to better illustrate?

Sorry should have been banner. The extra blanks were probably the css
problem others picked up.

> Also the list of links following is too long and totally takes away
> from all the text below.
>
> Again, not sure about this? Sounds like I may have a browser
> issue...cause there are only three sets of links on the page..one
> across the top that is two rows, one along the left side, and one
> along the bottom that is also two rows.


Fix the css problem and then drop me a reminder and I can retest it. Yes
I was seeing vertical lists and assumed thats what you wanted.

> I print pages out, personally, when I am roaming the 'net. When I
> find something of interest, something related to a project,
> whatever, I very often print it out.

> Very valid but a lot of people will not print a page unless it looks
to be of interest so you need to grab them and entice them first.
Barry's set-up was very clean. He does good work.

> Sometimes I can go back to the page, should I need to, but many
> times it is gone by the time I decide to revisit it. If I have a
> contact email, that makes things slightly easier, a slightly greater
> chance of actually reaching the person regarding whatever data or
> question I have. So, assuming that I am not the only person who
> prints things out, I want my email on every page of the site...if it
> is only the clickable "contact" link, it will not appear on the print
> out.

OK two different things there. If the web sites keep on disappearing
then you need a stripper program such as Pagenest. It will capture a
whole website to your local hard drive so that you have a local version
of it and can actually move around it on your computer without being
connected to the web.

> However, if it's just written there in the normal way, the spam bots
> suck it up and I am inundated with crap. An image solves that issue,
> at least in part.

> However, if it's just written there in the normal way, the spam bots
> suck it up and I am inundated with crap.

Yes on e-mail I had not thought of that as I am not a printer but you
can use something like this, all in one line
Send me mail:
<A HREF="mailto:"></A>
so you have a clickable link that opens up an email message and it shows
the address. You will not get a lot of spam and if there is too much
your mail program/virus/spamcatcher will get most of it. The only spam I
get is what rootsweb sends me every day as a List Admin.

> and as someone else pointed out, when it is tremendously easier to
> say mckemie.org <http://mckemie.org>; than the long freepages
> addresses.

Agreed but normally when you put a link on a site it is to get you
somewhere else and they will not know that the different address is teh
same site.

I have iansinger.com .net .org and .ca and tehy all go to the same place
but they are set up so that whichever one you go to that is what shows
in the browser window. Not sure if you can do that when redirecting to
freepages.


> Also after the DNA link you just have a bullet with no reason for it
> to be there.
>
> Not on my viewing...again, this is frustrating me, as it certainly
> needs to be viewable by the different browsers...or I need to figure
> out why I would see something different on my viewing...

Not sure if you have fixed your css yet but I see
* DNA Project
*
* Search
* Thanks & Acknowledgements
* Note to Researchers
* What's New Blog

with the starsbeing bullets


> The land survey is a .jpg, but is too small to read, and isn't
> clickable to enlarge. When I open it in Irfanview I see it is dated
> 1984 when for some reason I had just assumed it was a historical
> document from the 1800's.
>
> Yeah, this is still in progress :)

So why the current dating?

(Due to list problems this is going to the list and a cc to you for
faster service so you might see it twice.)

Ian Singer
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