So far, your summation seems to be spot on. You’ll still need to clean up some of the HTML code generated in v8. Actually, you don’t NEED to do it but may WANT to do it especially if you plan on adding any other bells and whistles to your pages. And as you stated, you should be capable of moving your files to wherever you wish and then having v8 find them without a lot of problems. And it’s not a matter of updating each and every link but rather telling Legacy this is where the pictures reside and then Legacy will find them all.
My biggest complaint about v8 web page creation is that the program doesn’t create a “stay alive” process during the creation. This is only of importance if you are planning to include pictures on your web pages, something that will vastly increase the time necessary to complete the creation of the web pages. For example, if you have a large family file with lots of pictures, the process will take several hours. But most computer systems have a default power saving mode in which the hard drives and the entire system will go into sleep mode after 30 minutes or 1 hour of inactivity. When that happens, your web creation process is put on hold until you move the mouse or press a key. The work-around is to modify your system settings to a “Never Off” setting, something that is usually not recommended. It’s a shame Millennia couldn’t incorporate this “stay alive” process because other software such as DVD burning programs and Video rendering programs do it routinely. There are a number of small bugs that are new to the v8 web process and you’ll probably see them when you use it. I have a 3 page list of such bugs but I’m still working on a full definition of them and making sure that they can be re-created. Some others have stated that they cannot include source document pictures in the web output but mine are coming through without problems with the exception of one type of page selection. I’m still checking out the picture creation process but as I stated, this slows down the creation to several hours. And at my age, I may not have several hours. Brian in CA From: Gordon Small [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How's the Web Page Output - Legacy v8 I created my genealogy site using v7.5. Although I've continued my research, It's been years since I've updated the web and now I'm planning on another update soon. I purchased v8 when it was released and played around with it for a couple days but all my data still resides in my v7.5 installation. I like the fact that the v8 installation is more Windows compliant and uses the windows file structure like it's supposed to be used instead of how v7 did it putting the user files in the root drive. This would be my main reason for the upgrade. I don't plan on using many of the new features of v8 like the source writer because I have too many sources now to go back and redo them all. There *may* be other features I could get used to though. :-/ So, I have a couple questions. 1. If I move all my "user" files (i.e. my personal added content such as the "family.fdb", photos and documents. Not the Legacy user profile files) from C:\Legacy over to the My Documents/Legacy Family Tree folder is there anything that will cause me problems? This probably isn't a big deal for me because I can usually wade through missing links to photos and things like that. But if anyone has had any problems I'm interested in knowing if I can expect any surprises. 2. I'm heavily into web creation. The web output of v7.x, while it leaves a lot to be desired, is not that hard to work with once you know how to work around the deficiencies. I'm particularly interested in the pedigree web page output. For those of you that have upgraded to v8 and output to pedigree web pages.... Are there any gotchas in v8 that broke things that worked v7? Thanks, Gordon 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
