Web design

[Guy Etchells]

Many people are put off running a website thinking they will have to find out about coding etc., but really there is no need. Today many word processors have the facility to save the page as htm or html, this means if you can type you can design a website.

Yes, I know that programs such as Microsoft Word add extra gunge to pages written using them but that does not really matter, it will not in most cases effect the way your pages are displayed.

Try it and see.
Most of my webistes are very basic written using Word and saved as htm, they are not the most technically brilliant pages and the coding could be reduced by using other programs, but they work.

They get the information over to practically everybody even on the most basic computers.

If I can do it so can you - no excuses go ahead and write your own website.
Cheers
Guy

[ziksby]

Just had a look at a couple of your sites Guy (Googled to find them)... very impressive but simple, as you say. Lots of dedication required to get all those links.
I use Yahoo to free host and build my pages, mainly transcripts of my History of Astronomy lectires. Easy to upload the odd picture as well.

[Guy Etchells]

It would have been easier to have used the url in the sig below my postings ;-)).

By the way have you noticed any of Rod's postings on the lists about the phenomena seen at in the night sky Eston in Leicestershire in the 1716 as described in the Annals of Newark (page 207).
... meteors: being all in confusion, and darting one against another, with incredible force and swiftness, for about an hour and a half.
The description later mentions ... a bright globular body appear'd as big as, and like the sun at its rising, but not quite so clear.

Cheers
Guy

[wozgeog]

"Spiders", "Crawlers", "Spam harvesters", "email grabbers", "email collectors" and "spambots" may seem to be a foreign language to some but PLEASE consider protecting your web page against these. Unless of course you like getting loads of spam in your e mail and don't mind your family tree appearing on the main search engines. Any "sensitive" information can be used by anyone with intmessage="Spiders", "Crawlers", "Spam harvesters", "email grabbers", "email collectors" and "spambots" may seem to be a foreign language to some but PLEASE consider protecting your web page against these. Unless of course you like getting loads of spam in your e mail and don't mind your family tree appearing on the main search engines. Any "sensitive" information can be used by anyone with internet access........."identity theft!!!!"

[Guy Etchells]

Oh please, yes email adress harvesting does take place, it would be naive to think otherwise but it is not as great a threat as some would make out.
I have been very active on a number of mailing lists, newsgroups forums etc. for a number of years yet receive very little spam despite always using my true email address.

The vast majority of "spiders" and "crawlers" liable to visit a web page will come from search engines and the like to aid the listing of the site, a situation every webmaster wants.

As for identity theft about four or five years ago an american offered one million dollars to anyone who could prove a case of identity theft due to information available online, up to when I last heard (about six months ago) nobody had claimed the money.
Let's face it there are one hundred and one easier ways for a criminal to carry out identity theft so why should they bother. One of the fastest. and most frequent is by cloning cards when presented in shops & stores. The assistant takes the card, additional id and retires to a back room to photocopy them. Instead he/she clones the card by using a swipe machine copies the id and before the customer departs from the shop his/her details can be on the other side of the world.
As for using anything connected with your name or family as bank security forget it, it has been know for at least 30 years that such passwords are worse than useless and are an open invitation to fraud.
Cheers
Guy

[Mary Young]

It would have been easier to have used the url in the sig below my postings ;-)).
Guy

Hello, Guy
I wonder if your signature isn't working - I can't see any url below your name.

[Mary Young]

Ooops! The signature doesn't seem to work for anyone now! I can see it in the Preview, but not after posting to the Thread.

[Neil Reynolds]

Mary,

It looks like you've managed to turn off the display of signatures. If that's the case, go to User CP and click Edit Profile. Then scroll about half way down to the Thread Display Options to ensure that the Show Signatures check box is checked. That should enable you to see everyone's signatures.

Regards, Neil

[wozgeog]

Thanks for the info Guy, perhaps you should tell the FBI to stop wasting money.

"FBI warns of latest expensive Internet traps and tricks

The FBI, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Earthlink have jointly issued a warning on how the growing ranks of Internet crooks are using new tricks called "phishing" and "spoofing" to steal your identity."

[Guy Etchells]

Exactly the fraudster sends out emails (supposedly from banks etc.) asking you to confirm (reveal) your bank details and passwords.
The niave fall for the con and send the fraudsters everything that is required to empty their accounts.
That is not the same as gleaning info from family history websites as I interprited your original posting to be about.
Cheers
Guy

PS no bank or finance company would ever send an email asking for security details.