Cheryl, Wm, Thanks, Wm, for your confirmation, I was beginning to think that I was getting past it!!
Cheryl, both William and I do write websites, and also modify Pedigree webpages to suit ourselves. However, the OP asked why Legacy didn't give the option. In the tutorials on my website I do give a bit of javascript which can be used to insert pictures in Pedigree webpages. Ron Ferguso http://www.fergys.co.uk Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone singhals <singh...@erols.com> wrote: >As one of those annoying people who prefer to hand-code >their web pages, the issue isn't as easy as Voss suggests. > >The Defaults in "the program" are frequently displeasing to >users. So options are needed. For options to be useful, >the user has to know /exactly/ what each will do. AND has >to want that *every* time in the document. [Do you actually >want an empty box when you don't have a photo to display?] > >Consider too that inserting a photo frequently distorts the >page's visual appeal. Inserting 5 photos with 5 lines of >data will become visually boring, the eye will elide from >one to the next; if you alternate left/right placement for >the photo, a fair share of readers will do the vertical >read, and then complain that the picture shows a >birth-baptism but the caption refers to a marriage. > >If you really really want the picture with the event, insert >it by hand. Otherwise, put all these into the photo album >and print it at the end of the individual's information, as >a separate page, for those readers who care. IME most won't. > >Cheryl > >Wm Voss wrote: >> Really? Nonsense. The request has been made since I started beta testing >> in v2 and the excuse has always been exactly as Ron stated for ALL >> formats of web page generation. One would think a decade would be long >> enough to come up with some way to make the use of the vital event >> options useful in this context. >> >> Wm Voss >> >> On 10-Aug-13 7:39 PM, Brian/Support wrote: >>> Ron took the "we don't know where to put them" from the wrong context. >>> That statement was made several years ago by the programmer about the >>> narrative reports where the vital events are grouped into a single >>> paragraph. It would still apply to some formats of web pages (Ancestor >>> and Descendant). Pedigree web pages list the vital events as bullet >>> points so it may be possible to include pictures with the vital events. >>> >>> The suggestion to include vital event pictures is recorded in our >>> enhancements project as is another suggestion to include source pictures >>> and, from a discussion recently, the option to not convert image files >>> to jpg. Since the programmers never give any indication of which >>> suggestions are being considered or being introduced I can give you no >>> further information. >>> >>> Brian >>> Customer Support >>> Millennia Corporation >>> br...@legacyfamilytree.com >>> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
