Hello, group!
I just wanted to announce the first version of my new Legacy-generated website — www.hainings.net. In the past, I have uploaded versions of my tree to various other places (Rootsweb, Ancestry, and even MyHeritage). For me, one of the best benefits of having your tree online has been finding cousins that I wouldn’t have been able to reach otherwise. However, recently I began to realize that because of various changes to the coding of Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, most people doing a general Google search on the name of a grandparent would not be able to find me even if that grandparent was in my tree. Sure, they can find me if they search specifically at Rootsweb or on Ancestry, but many new folks just starting out don’t know enough to search those particular websites. The solution to this problem — as far as I’m concerned — was to get my own domain and to do a website based on Legacy-generated webpages. There are other genealogy website programs out there — but they break down into two main types. The difference between the two types is whether or not you have pages of static material (how Legacy does the pages) or whether the information comes dynamically in response to a query. In terms of having lists of names that can be Google-indexed, the static pages actually work better for me. Anyway, I just thought I’d mention how easy it was to create a website with Legacy. Legacy did all the really hard work — generated the bulk of my pages — and I tweaked it a bit (courtesy of Dennis Kowallek’s LTools <http://zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/what-is-ltools/> ), and did some hand-coding (with help from WUL <https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/WUL/info> ). And the result is plain to see. I’d still hope for a few more improvements in Legacy’s webpage output (lifespan on the names in the family links box!!), but overall I’m quite satisfied with my new website. cheers, Kirsty Haining J Seattle, Washington www.hainings.net 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
