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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Web page creation
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:24:17 -0600
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20031102032742.00a3d010@pop.sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <LDENIDGJNKMFGDHNGHKPAEFECEAA.dbwing@sasktel.net>


At 12:11 PM 11/2/03 -0600, Don Wingfield wrote in response to my:

>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.

Hi again:

Some, but not all, of my reply in this message seems to be
redundant with another message. I apologize for that.

Second Site generates a Web Site, where the "proper" way
to connect people is by hypertext links. This is what the
Web is all about. However, you can generate HTML narrative
reports directly from TMG in a number of formats, which
include the styles you mention (among others). I have not
spent much time working with them, however.

>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.

I would also like to see an option for the date style
you mention, e.g. "June 26, 1983". However, I think
most users find the "26 June 1983" style to be more
than acceptable, and the majority find it preferable.

>3. What graphics do you want to use?
>
>There is no provision to select graphics other than the ones supplied.

I have created a site using Second Site that uses only
graphics I have created myself.

>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.

I agree with your frustration at the limitation. It is
the reason I do not use "exclude Living" at all. I use
flag-based exclusion instead, but this is not entirely
satisfactory either.

>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 don't know about Legacy, but I am a former "UFT
Refugee". I had an online web site for about two
years that was generated and updated from UFT 3. In
my opinion, Second Site is vastly superior in every
respect of which I am aware. Can you give a *specific*
example of a feature in UFT's HTML output that you
prefer to Second Site's?

Darrell


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

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