Brian, Thanks for the link. Interesting reading, but not something that has much impact for me in naming image files. Google is concerned primarily with searching out keywords, and many folks would like each word in a series of words to be "searchable." That's not a concern for me in placing an image file in a web page. If Google tries to search a web page of genealogical data there are plenty of instances of the various surnames on a web page for Google to "find" without having to search through the image file names. Google apparently treats words connected by underscores as a single word (e.g. "This_is_a_single_word_to_Google"). That's not a concern when it comes to image file names, and changing to hyphens between the works degrades readability considerably, so I'll stick with underscores until such time as they cause a real problem.
John John Zimmerman Mesa, AZ On 10/15/2012 12:25 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > > And just to show that the entire Internet is still in its > infancy, along comes Google and changes the ground rules > for the underscore. Interesting reading here… > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/04/of-spaces-underscores-and-dashes.html > > OK, at the risk of this entire thread getting off-topic, > it does bear some importance to Legacy users who want to > put their files on the Web. But I think the moderator is > about to pull the plug on this anyhow. > > Brian in CA > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook > (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
