Site Help

Site Structure 

The diagram shows the essential structure of the site. There are other pages in various nooks and corners, but this is the layout of the chief pages -- my mental image of the site. (The resemblance of the background to a brick wall is no accident!)

The pages are classified by type (Pedigree, ODT, etc.) as well as by family. An index of families is provided for each type because some families may have no representatives of certain type of page; pedigrees are provided only for ancestral families, for example.

Once a family has been selected, the buttons on the pink NavBar can be used to navigate to the different types of pages for that family.

Genealogy pages

Organized by families, these pages will be recognized by the pink NavBar with buttons to select the various page types within the particular family named on the left edge of the NavBar. The buttons on the pink NavBar look like this.

Pedigrees

For ancestral families, these pages lay out my pedigree leading into the particular family.

ODTs

These pages lay out the descendant trees for each subfamily in the family. Subfamilies are families that share a surname, but may or may not be related to each other.

Sources

These are bibliographies of sources for each family. Some special source pages are included as well.

Celebs

Persons of note in the family are documented here.

Annex

Each family is also represented here, where the presentation form is different from my ODT layout. The same data is used, with additional people, notes and specific source citations.

Gallery

Images associated with the family. To date, no gallery pages have been produced.

Note that the button color matches the background color of the pages in that collection.

Miscellany

Various ancillary pages.

Page Layout 

As may be seen in the figure, each page has five distinct sections or areas.

Header

This is a block positioned at the top of every page. It is divided into three sections, left to right:

• Left: Forward and back buttons, in case your browser doesn't have them. Handy links to sundry services.
• Center: Links to the indices of each group of pages. The complete URL of the page. An image indicating that the page is loading, which changes to an American flag when loading completes.
• Right: The site logo, either Genealogy, et Cetera or Celebrities, et Cetera. A link to my news blog. A button which shows the other pages that link to this page, as known by Google.

Content

The content particular to the selected type of page and for the selected family.

Services

This block, positioned just before the trailer block at the bottom of each page,

• The URL of the page
• The date when the page was last uploaded
• A counter of visits

Tokens positioned in the right margin are links to additional services and declarations. For example the W3C HTML token will validate the page html and display the result.

Trailer

This block, positioned at the end of every page, is divided into two rows of three cells each.

1. First row:
   1. Left: Colophon
   2. Center: Copyright
   3. Right: Contact information
2. Second row: (This row is suppressed for printing.)
   1. Left:Search box
   2. Center: Navigation links
   3. Right: Monitor box

Background

The same background is used for all pages in a collection, e.g. all ODTs have the same tan background.

Common Features 

The following are common attributes or features of all or most pages on this site.

Abbreviations and acronyms

A special sort of popup, these will provide a definition for most abbreviations and acronyms found throughout the site. They may be recognized by the dotted underline, like this: ABCFM. The definition should popup when you hover your mouse cursor over it. The cursor should also change to the query cursor () as you roll by.

Advertising

The host facility, RootsWeb, posts advertising at the top ond bottom of the page, i.e. above and below the page layout. Advertizing helps to support the repository.

Colophon

Located in the Trailer, clicking on the image brings up a page of explanation.

Common styling

Content		Emphasis levels
Ordinary text Book titles Sample input Sample output Code Variables		(001) Emphasis (010) Emphasis (011) Emphasis (100) Emphasis (101) Emphasis (110) Emphasis (111) Emphasis

• As far as possible, links will be rendered on a yellow background with thin red outline as you roll your mouse cursor over them, . This will help you identify links that are not distinguished by color or underlining, Easter eggs, for example.

If your browser does not support CSS, you will miss many details on my site. CSS is used extensively to style my pages. Without CSS support, the pages should be intelligible, but probably with much difficulty.

Contact information

In the Trailer block, at the bottom of the page: My email address and postal address.

Easter eggs

This term, well known to the arcade crowd, denotes hidden aspects of a page. They are usually provided for my own convenience, but may be of some use to others.

Indices

Located in the middle pane of the header, links to the indices for the various collections of pages.

Page Navigators

Headings: Two buttons ( ) positioned at the right end of headings on some pages allow navigation to previous and next heading. (Some browsers have this capability built-in, e.g. Opera, "W" and "S")

Vertical: These three buttons are supplied on certain pages, fixed to the right edge at the middle of the window. (Opera insists on placing them at the top of the window.) The three buttons are links, from top to bottom,

1. To the TOP of the page
2. To the TOC of the page
3. To the BOTtom of the page

Pink NavBar

The Pink NavBar appears at the top of the Content of genealogy pages. It is always identified with a specific family, which is noted on its left end, and provides navigation between the various types of pages for the family.

Popup tooltips

Many of the features make use of the title= property to pop up short descriptions for selected page elements. These operate when you hover your mouse cursor over an element that has this property. Here is an example: Hold your mouse cursor over this word: "test". If your browser doesn't display this: popup tooltip, perhaps after a short rest, you should probably get a better browser. This facility is standard, and has been available on conforming browsers for several years.

Another example: You have perhaps noticed the popup that occurs within the text of this page, identifying the heading under which the cursor rests.

If your browser doesn't support this, the page will work, because tooltips do not affect page functionality, but you will be missing many help opportunities.

Printing

Each page is arranged to automatically print efficiently and economically.

1. Backgrounds are suppressed.
2. Non-essential items are suppressed.

Site navigation

Help Pages 

Feature Add Date^* *Added:
Sep 2007

Feature Add Dates (such as shown at the right) are displayed for added features that do not immediately propagate to all documents.

Other Help Pages 

• Annex Help
• Celebs Help
• ODT Help
• Pedigrees Help
• Miscellany Help
• Sources Help