Website Tutorials
The pages in the "Tutorials" section of this web hopefully will help guide you in making or updating your own County or State GenWebs. I've added a number of things that people have asked me about when making or troubleshooting their webs. Below are the topics in this section, with a brief description of each.
What does all this Code Stuff Mean? Definitions and a bit more on this page
Editing Your Site - A list of links to tutorials [not on this site]
Creating Pages or Categories for your site - A list of sample pages & categories you might consider using on your site.
Styling Text - How to add a bit of pazazz to your site with heading tags and text styling
Styling Images - How to get your images lookin' good on the page!
DWT & Page Editing - How to work with DWTs [Used in Expression Web and Dreamweaver]
FTP Programs - Programs you can use to FTP [upload/download] your site to the web
How to FTP your web - A short tutorial using Filezilla as an example.
USGW-Helppages Mailing List - Join the mailing to get help!
Rootsweb Help - For those that have Rootsweb accounts
How to Break Out of Frames - This coding is used when people pull your pages into their website, but place a "frame" around your work, so it looks like their work.
Processing Tombstone Photos - How to batch process tombstone picture, with slide show! Thanks, Tina.
Tips & Tricks - Just "stuff" that doesn't really "fit" into a category
If you need help, contact Marsha. I can't do hours and hours of troubleshooting, but I may be able to help you.
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