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From: Carol C-H <>
Subject: Re: suggestions
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:44:16 -0600


That should have had a smiley face - I meant it to be funny. It would be
much better if Rootsweb would create a simple template for us to use, IMHO
- many of us (like myself) are not into web-page-making. Am gonna try to
learn -

Carol

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Like you told us to do yesterday - learn, like you had to do.

Carol

At 01:01 PM 02/16/2000 -0600,Mari wrote:
>What do the listowners that have no inkling of how to do a web page do????
>
>Mari
>
>
>At 09:55 AM 2/16/00 -0800, JOHN BALLARD wrote:
>>Great idea, Bob.
>> John Ballard
>>
>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I propose that RootsWeb allow all listowners the opportunity
>> > to setup a web site associated with their list(s) to be used
>> > only to promote the list (no personal use). This could be in
>> > a special area similar to freepages. Limits could be placed
>> > on the available space if that became a problem, 100k per
>> > page would be more than adequate (check out my list web site
>> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mahanweb at about
>> > 90K per list).
>> >
>> > RootsWeb could then setup a page listing links to all of the
>> > list web sites (i.e an index), and submit this page to the
>> > search engines letting them catalog the links on the page.
>> >
>> > The meta-tags would be setup on the list web sites to provide
>> > the appropriate titles, keywords, and descriptions.
>> >
>> > Even if you do not submit the pages, they would eventually be
>> > found by some of the search engines which use 'robots'
>> > (sometimes called spiders) to search and catalog the web.
>> > Though with the size of the web now days it may be awhile
>> > before a chance happening found the pages.
>> >
>> > Bob Mahan
>> >



Carol C-H <> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in
what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but
rather to what he does not say.
~~~Kahlil Gibran~~~

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