Planting Your Family Tree Online - Companion to Chapter 7

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		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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Companion to Chapter 7

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Where Do You Specify the Colors? Example taken from Cyndi's List:

<BODY BACKGROUND="http://www.CyndisList.com/cyndi/graphics/cyndibak.gif"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#521800" LINK="#660099" VLINK="#004000">

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Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets
www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Web Design Group, Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/
WebDeveloper.com's Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_css_1.html
WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets
wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/

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216 Colors-by Name or by Number?

Color Cube with Hex Number and RGB
www.html46.com/Color_Cube_Vr3.html
Non-Dithering Colors by Hue
home.midtown.net/support/Webpages/ndcolors.htm (Updated)
Non-Dithering Colors by Value
www.lynda.com/resources/hexpalette/value.html (Updated)
Non-Dithering Colors
www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/article.php/3479001 (Updated)
Web-Safe Color Picker
templates.cgi101.com/colors/

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Paint Shop Pro (www.corel.com), Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Photoshop Elements (www.adobe.com)

Playing with Colors

Colormaker
www.bagism.com/colormaker/
NetLingo: Web Coloring Book!
(Updated)
Two4U's Color Compose Engine
www.two4u.com/cgi-bin/color/compose/ (Broken, unable to find new address)

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Decimal RGB to Hex RGB Value Conversion Utility
www.limo.net/support/rgb-conversion.html (Updated)
RGB to Color Name Mapping
http://www.wellesley.edu/Systems.and.Networks/Count/rgb.txt.html (Updated)
Another: RGB to Color Name Mapping (Triplet and Hex)

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Browser-Safe Fonts

Browser News: Resources-Fonts
www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm
Design Tip: Finding Safe Fonts
www.netmechanic.com/news/vol2/design_no3.htm
Principles of Good Web Design: Browser Safe Fonts
www.stevegarwood.com/classes/design/bsfont.htm (Broken, replaced with the Wayback Machine)
Specify Browser-Safe Fonts
builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Graphics/Type/ss01c.html (Broken, replaced with the Wayback Machine)
What's Wrong with the FONT Element?
www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html

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Specifying Fonts in HTML:

<FONT FACE="Arial">

<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif">

<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" COLOR="#009900">

<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" COLOR="#009900" SIZE="+1">

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Graphics: Backgrounds, Bullets, and More
Genealogy Web graphics

Free Graphics from the Timberlake Family Home Page
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7906/freestuff.html (Broken, replaced with the Wayback Machine)
Glee Graphics
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/5503/ (Broken, replaced with the Wayback Machine)
Graphics by Shawna-Genealogy Sets
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/5922/gen.html
Genealogy graphics by Rhio's Sampler
www.rhiossampler.com

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Adobe Photoshop Elements (www.adobe.com) or JASC Paint Shop Pro (www.corel.com)

HTML Code for Your Graphics:

<IMG SRC="full URL for the graphic" BORDER="0">

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The HTML code for the graphic, with dimensions included, is:

<IMG SRC="full URL for the graphic" BORDER="0" WIDTH="xx" HEIGHT="yy">

HTML code, including the ALT text:

<IMG SRC="full URL for the graphic" BORDER="0" WIDTH="xx" HEIGHT="yy" 
ALT="Description of Graphic Here">

Accessibility: "Bobby" at bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
(Broken, unable to find new address) Lecture on audiotape by Birdie Monk Holsclaw, FUGA: "Accessibility Issues When Designing Your Web Page" at www.audiotapes.com/product.asp?ProductCode='BCBS37'

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Turning a Graphic into a link:

<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/"><IMG
SRC="http://img.rootsweb.ancestry.com/links/RootsWeb.gif" WIDTH="66" HEIGHT="75"
BORDER="0" ALT="Visit RootsWeb"></A>

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