Planting Your Family Tree Online - Companion to Chapter 10

		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
Order Online: Amazon.com \| Barnes & Noble

Companion to Chapter 10

An absolute link looks like this:

<A HREF="http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/ngs_standards_and_guidelines">NGS Standards</A>

A relative link looks like this:

<A HREF="ngs_standards_and_guidelines">NGS Standards</A>

Stamp Out Linkrot!
Google (www.google.com) or AltaVista (www.altavista.com).

216-color safe palette (www.hitmill.com/html/color_safe.html) (Updated)

Break out of frames:

<A HREF="http://www.your Web site address.com/" TARGET="_BLANK">Click here to break out of frames</A>

For example, the HTML code for a link to Cyndi's List looks like this:

<A HREF="http://www.CyndisList.com/" TARGET="_BLANK">Cyndi's List</A>

Adobe's Acrobat reader get.adobe.com/reader (Updated)

Learn More about Web Design Dos and Don'ts

Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability
www.useit.com/alertbox/
- Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability (12 May 2002)
  www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (May 1996)
  www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
A book by Jakob Nielsen (Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing, 2000)
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
A book by Steve Krug (Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing, 2000)
How to Make an Annoying Web Page
www.users.nac.net/falken/annoying/
HTML Bad Style Page
jnocook.net/html/badstyle.htm (Updated)
The Top Fifteen Mistakes of First Time Web Design
www.cyberindian.com/web-designing/article.php?article_id=70 (Updated)
Web Pages That Suck-Learn Good Web Design by Looking at Bad Design
www.webpagesthatsuck.com
Web Publishing for Genealogy :A Web site and book by Peter Christian
www.spub.co.uk/wpg/index.html

Planting Your Family Tree Online:
How To Create Your Own Family History Web Site
Companion Web site for the book, available at: Amazon.com
Updated