Thank you, Ward, for your reply. I had not realized that Google was not
appropriate. Ron Ferguson just advised me of that, too. I wish the various
FAQs had some of that info in them; I wouldn't feel nearly as
computer-inadequate :)
Regards,
Lorraine
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ward Walker wrote:
> Lorraine,
>
> I also considered Google Sites recently (as I had to migrate some pages
> from the defunct GeoCities). After some digging, I discovered that there is
> no way to upload more than one page at a time to Google Sites. Thus it is
> not suitable for a family tree.
>
> After investigating a few other free web hosting sites, I decided to pay a
> small annual fee for a paid web hosting site (www.FatCow.com). There are
> many others to choose from, and several sites are dedicated just to
> reviewing them. One bonus is that you can be registered for one domain name
> as part of the deal. Sites like this are designed so that people
> knowledgeable about web servers can use the raw tools, but there are also
> some user-friendly tools to automate common tasks. For access control,
> rather than having to invite people, like with Google Sites, you can create
> passwords for files and folders.
>
> Good luck.
>
>Ward
>
> - Original Message -
> *From:* Lorraine
> *To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> *Sent:* Friday, October 09, 2009 1:27 PM
> *Subject:* [Bulk] [LegacyUG] [Legacy] Cannot Get FTP to Work for Created
> Web Pages
>
> Hi, listers,
>
> I have searched already the help, tip, user archives to help me get the
> exact help I need, but am just not getting it right. Perhaps it is a
> misunderstanding of the differences between "host," "ISP," and "website."
> As I spent some hours yesterday trying to do it again, I am feeling very
> frustrated and hope someone can give me step-by-step pointers. I want to
> place this family tree on a website that is both free and has
> invitation-only access, because it has many living people in it, and I want
> the other family members from this side of the family that is not documented
> to collaborate freely on adding their own data and pictures, as well as
> information about their/our direct ancestors. I have a family tree for my
> line up at Ancestry as a public tree, because those lines deal with people
> not living.
>
> My Legacy "create web pages" works just fine. I think. When I first tried
> to do this some months ago (yes, I am starting from the beginning, again), I
> set up an account with my provider, Cox Cable, for web space. Then I
> discovered that I couldn't trust that it would be completely private and it
> had little space available, and I deleted the account. For the short time it
> was up, I could get the FTP to work.
>
> I am using the Firefox FTP, because Mozilla Firefox is my web browser. I
> have already set up an empty private web site at
> http://sites.google.com/site/ that seems to be just what I needed. I
> think. But then I could not connect to the site using the FTP. I ended up
> deleting the add-on FTP, reinstalling it, deleting the account for the FTP,
> re-setting it up. Nothing works. All I get is "unable to connect." I was
> trying various versions of the website address as the host in the account,
> both with the complete web address name and with only the root address:
> http://sites.google.com/site/. Am I missing a complete step here?
>
> Do I need to first go through the service provider Cox to *get* to the host
> website at Google, or is the "website" not the "host"? I really hope someone
> can help this unsavvy-in-tech user!!! I have followed the steps in the helps
> from Google sites, from Firefox FTP, and from Legacy. It must be easy,
> right? Or so many people could not be doing it successfully. What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lorraine
>
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