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From: Don Wingfield <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Web page creation
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:11:54 -0600
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20031102032742.00a3d010@pop.sprynet.com>


Hi, Donald:

I have some questions, whether to help you look for a different program or
to work to improve Second Site.

1. What features do you want that Second Site does not have?

An option of which type of narrative to use. Ancestor, descendant, family
style orientation as UFT had. Pedigree style.

2. What do you mean by "does not read the dates from my data set as they
were entered"? Can you give an example?


The date is fixed. In my county we use the date format "mmm dd, yyyy" I also
does not produce dates with the provision for the differences in the Julian
and Gregorian calendars. TMG does this in it's reports.

3. What graphics do you want to use?

There is no provision to select graphics other than the ones supplied.

4. How would you like a feature that hides data of living persons to work,
if you do not want to hide the person entirely? What information would you
provide? If you want to select the information at the time the Web pages
are created, how do you want the selection to work?

I have 4 generations that are living at the moment. I can get my fathers
name to show in the output as a living person. Where am I and my children
and my grandchildren? All I want is for the names to show. Cousins and other
relations will know where to start to see their ancestors, but what about
someone else. Eg. an unknown family line that is looking for connections.

5. I presume, when you say you "have used web page creation in other
programs", that you mean Web pages created directly by other genealogical
software. What other software works in a way that you like?


UFT and Legacy

I'm on the beta team for Second Site, and the list admin for SECONDSITE-L,
so I confess to a bias. I also confess to having a list of wanted
enhancements for the program that have not all been met yet [grin]. Your
input may help. And if you can answer at least some of my questions, there
may be ways of getting you what you want, or most of it, already -- whether
via features in Second Site you may have missed, or by identifying an
alternative program, or by using TMG's own HTML output.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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