Planting Your Family Tree Online: How To Create Your Own Family History Web Site, by Cyndi Howells

Planting Your Family Tree Online - Companion Web Site

		Planting Your Family Tree Online: How To Create Your Own Family History Web Site A BRAND NEW book by Cyndi Howells Creator of Cyndi's List Published by Rutledge Hill Press A Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. PO Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214
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Welcome to the companion Web site for the book: Planting Your Family Tree Online: How To Create Your Own Family History Web Site, by Cyndi Howells. The book is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating a genealogy Web site. It contains numerous addresses for Web sites, as well as samples of HTML and e-mail messages to use during the process. This companion Web site is here for two reasons:

To give owners of the book a current set of links for the online references listed in the book.
To give owners of the book the ability to easily copy and paste the samples from the book.

The links and samples from the book are supplied on this Web site for each of the following chapters:

Chapter 2	Chapter 7	Chapter 10	Chapter 13
Chapter 5	Chapter 8	Chapter 11	Appendix
Chapter 6	Chapter 9	Chapter 12	Glossary

Table of Contents For The Book

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Should Read This Book?
Chapter 1 - Why You Need a Genealogy Web Site: Publishing in Pixels versus Publishing in Ink; Always a Work in Progress; Leave a Trail for Your Cousins to Follow; Help Fellow Genealogists and Set an Example for Others
Chapter 2 - Find a Home for Your Web Site: What to Look For; Where to Look; Domain Name Registration and Hosting; Extra Tools and Features; What Is the Best Choice for You?
Chapter 3 - Plan Ahead for a Successful Genealogy Web Site: Who Will Visit Your Site?; How Should Your Site Look and Behave?; What Is the Purpose of Your Site?; Types of Genealogy Web Sites
Chapter 4 - Structure Your Genealogy Web Site: Folders and Directories; A Model for Web Site Structure; Let Your Ancestor Chart Be Your Guide; Duplicate the Organization on Your Computer's Hard Drive; Plan Ahead-Avoid Broken Links and Lost Cousins
Chapter 5 - Select the Contents for Your Genealogy Web Site: The Title; What You Should Include; What You Should Not Include; Food for Thought: NGS Standards and Guidelines
Chapter 6 - Create the Basic Web Pages: Using Genealogy Software; GEDCOM Web Page Conversion Software; Customizing the Software's Output; Displaying the Data without Genealogy Software; Using HTML Editors; Using a Text Editor to Write HTML Code Yourself; The Home Page and Index Pages; Checking Your Work; Getting Help from Friends and Professionals
Chapter 7 - Personalize Your Web Site with Color and Style: Remember Your Mission and Audience; Colors in Backgrounds, Text, and Links; Fonts and Formatting; Graphics: Backgrounds, Bullets, and More
Chapter 8 - Customize Your Web Site: Navigation Tools; The Common Footer; Disclaimers; Getting Search Engines to Notice Your Site
Chapter 9 - Enhance Your Web Site with Extras: Links and Bibliographies; Photographs and Scanned Documents; Downloadable Files; Multimedia; Automated Features and Forms
Chapter 10 - Guarantee Success: Common Web Site Dos and Don'ts: Web Site Title Follies; Purpose or Mission Statement; Contact Information; Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation; Location, Location, Location!; Broken Links; Background Graphics; Colors That Blind or Hypnotize; Anything That Moves; It Really Isn't Music to My Ears; Frames Are Evil; Things That Make My Browser Crash
Chapter 11 - Check Your Work and Give Your Site a Trial Run: Proofread and Review the Site; Validate Your HTML for Accuracy and Usability; Upload the Pages to the Web Server; Check Navigation, Verify Links, and Confirm Accessibility; Test Your Site in Various Web Browsers; Back Up and Archive Your Web Site
Chapter 12 - Make It Official: Publicize Your New Web Site: Strategies for Making Your Site Known to Other Genealogists; Genealogy Mailing Lists and Message Boards; E-mailing Other Family Historians; Online Genealogy Columnists and Editors; Genealogy Web Indexes and Search Engines; Surname Registry Sites; Internet Search Engines; Offline Announcements; Last, But Not Least: Stationery
Chapter 13 - Keep Your Web Site Alive and Kicking: Give It a Checkup: Why You Should Check and Update Your Site; Create a Maintenance Routine; What's New; Annual Maintenance; Share New Things You Have Learned; Reevaluate Your Research and the Purpose of Your Site
Appendix: National Genealogical Society Standards and Guidelines: Standards for Sound Genealogical Research; Guidelines for Using Records, Repositories, and Libraries; Standards for Use of Technology in Genealogical Research; Guidelines for Genealogical Self-Improvement and Growth
Glossary
Index

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