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From: (David Faux)
Subject: Re: [DNA] Complicated Websites
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:58:34 +0000


Eleanor and List:

I have about 6 websites (yes I am losing count) and three separate webhosting accounts all with the same provider. I had a terrible experience with another provider and only accolades for the one I use now.

I wish to let people know that to set up a website it is not necessary to know one iota about html coding. Most of the web host companies are template, icon, and menu driven. You can add a picture, delete text, add a fancy flying globe or just about anything without having to go into the html codes - ever. The one exception is if you have a merchant account and use Dreamweaver or FrontPage to design the pages - but this is not an issue for most here.

It took me a few days to compose a website for our Department (and weeks to put all my lecture notes on-line) but all done without html - and it downloads immediately even with dial up. All my DNA and genealogical and professional web information can be accessed via one page via cross referencing.

Anyone interested in seeing one example of DNA and genealogy websites and other topics pulled from the websites but listed on the one page can go to
www.davidkfaux.org to see lots of examples. There you can for example access my Faux Surname DNA study, the Shetland site, a combined genealogical and DNA website for the Young family (with all sorts of pictures and pages from Family Bibles as well as the ancestral haplotype of my U.E. Loyalist ancestor Adam Young derived from descendants of his sons Lt. John and Sgt. Daniel).

David F.

--
Admin for FAUX Surname Project, and SHETLAND ISLANDS Y-DNA and mtDNA Geographical Project.
www.davidkfaux.org

-------------- Original message --------------

> When my husband Marshall and I sat down to create the RenshawDNA website, he
> was adamant that the html code for the files on the website be as clean as
> possible. Marshall reminded me that not everyone has a highspeed internet
> connection and that redundant code would slow access to the site for people who
> are still on dial-up lines. We have cousins in the U.S. and in England who
> are on dial-up, either because of financial constraints or because of
> unavailability of any other type of connection, so we are familiar with the
> problem.
>
> Marshall advised not using Microsoft html as there are many redundancies (I
> think that is the correct term) in their automatic code. He suggested I use
> Dreamweaver, and even in Dreamweaver I open up the html portion and take out
> chunks of excess code whenever I do a major update of the website. I am not
> very good at this, but I am able to preview the results of what I have done
> and then undo and re-edit where necessary.
>
> As other posters have noted, a website is a good way to indicate that a DNA
> project is a legitimate form of genealogical research. I do not want to
> discourage a mildly-interested Renshaw in a small town in Shropshire or in the
> wilds of Colorado from joining the project because the DNA website I have
> referred him to takes too long to access.
>
> Eleanor Gordon
> Renshaw Y-DNA Project Co-administrator
> www.RenshawDNA.com

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