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From: "Harold Kilmer" <>
Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Announcement: USGenWeb Project sites hosted onTGN/RW("RootsWeb")
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:26:57 -0700
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Tina:

Thanks for the update on the Rootsweb banner. Also I would like to thank
you and the board for your work on obtaining a banner that identifies the
USGenWeb Project with the links to our national site on the same line that
it shows Rootsweb and Ancestry com as the host. Since this issue came up
last summer I have been trying to think of some way to "brand" all of my
pages in some way so that there would be no doubt that they were associated
with the USGenWeb Project. The banner that is custom to the USGenWeb
Project does that.

Please forward me the coding needed for the "Custom to the USGenWeb Project
banner" when it is available.

All of my county sites already have a display for being hosted by Rootsweb
on them. They are in the acknowledgements at the bottom of the page. It
would be nice if we had a choice of where the banner is posted. This banner
is a small price to pay for using the web space.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Harold Kilmer, NMGenWeb SC
CC for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea,
Luna, Quay, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, and
Sandoval Counties in New Mexico.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina S. Vickery" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: [STATE-COORD] Announcement: USGenWeb Project sites hosted on
TGN/RW("RootsWeb")


> Please forward to all USGenWeb Project lists.
>
> ---
>
> To All USGenWeb Project members who host sites on TGN/RW ("RootsWeb"):
>
> TGN/RW ("RootsWeb") has implemented a policy change in
> which banners are to be placed on all TGN/RW hosted
> websites. The USGenWeb Advisory Board contacted RootsWeb
> in regard to their plan to install banners on their
> webspace and have negotiated a banner specific to The
> USGenWeb Project that will be placed on the national pages
> of The USGenWeb Project. While these negotiations were
> ongoing, TGN/RW postponed applying the banners to sites of
> the USGenWeb Project to work on the concept of USGenWeb
> having a custom banner.
>
> The banner that we have negotiated identifies the USGenWeb
> Project as being hosted by RootsWeb and RootsWeb as a
> community of The Generation Network.
>
> The banners are viewable here:
>
> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default1.jpg [default one]
> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default2.jpg [default two]
> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default3.jpg [default three]
> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/custom.jpg [custom to
> USGenWeb Project]
>
> RootsWeb intends to begin the placement of the banners
> beginning on or about March 15, 2008. The
> generic/freepages banner will be included on the server
> side [TGN/RW], and will not require any involvement from
> the webmasters. Any USGenWeb Project site that wishes to
> have the USGenWeb Project specific banner instead of the
> generic/freepages banner will be supplied with code to
> insert on their pages in order to cause that banner to
> show up when their pages are viewed. The line of code
> they will provide us is not a replacement banner. It will
> simply include a parameter on the page that the server can
> read when rendering the banner that will tell it to render
> the customized USGenWeb [Project] banner instead of the
> default one.
>
> The Board has made it very clear to TGN/RW that they
> should be the ones to implement the custom banner on
> Project pages. TGN/RW understands how editing each
> individual page could be a concern for account holders
> with a large number of pages. Most solutions they have
> looked at for doing this involve significant initial or
> ongoing development or operations work, but they are still
> brainstorming to try and find a good solution. They will
> get back to the Advisory Board this week after they have
> been able to investigate further.
>
> The Advisory Board has strived to maintain a balance of
> TGN/RW business needs as our host, while being mindful of
> the Project's paramount mission and goal to provide free
> genealogical data to our visitors and the USGenWeb Project
> community as stated in our bylaws.
>
> As National Coordinator, I want to thank all involved for
> their patience and input as we have worked to achieve this
> balance.
>
> In tandem with this, and perhaps more importantly, the
> Advisory Board is discussing a hosting agreement with
> TGN/RW. While that hosting agreement is confidential in
> nature, due to business concerns of our host, the Board is
> working to insure that the work of our many volunteers and
> contributors is protected.
>
> We welcome any of your questions/concerns as we all work
> together to finalize this negotiation process.
>
> Tina Vickery
> National Coordinator
> USGenWeb Project
>
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