Hi Mike I've done this for my own family. But the main thing I did first was to separate my wife and myself in terms of the Legacy files. After creating separate files for each half of the family, I then created the web pages in separate projects and hand crafted (in notepad) an overall home page, using the Legacy created home page as a template. In this way my own overall home page looks similar to the rest of the web site. As you say, you can point to this overall home page with the option on the links page.
Since doing that I've added a couple more trees and some other pages to the Home Page, but the overall concept remains. You can see what I've ended up with at www.jearnshaw.me.uk I'm not a web designer and so some of it may not be very clever, but it does seem to work. Although the home page looks to just be a description of my family and research, the words have been carefully chosen to pass the "rules" used by Google and other search engines. ie I used an optimiser to find out if the web site would come out well on search engines and then used the advice given to write a home page that met the rules - such as mentioning each key word more than 2-3 times but not so much that it looked like a throwaway word. So far it appears to have worked in that I have had lots of emails from people who have "stumbled" over my site. If anyone knows a better way I'd love to hear about it. (as an aside it's amazing how many people type their own name into Google and then get a shock when they see it!!!) NB I haven't tried to do this with everyone still in one Legacy file Jack -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Carroll Sent: 11 January 2006 23:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy & Web Site Structure Hi, I've been reading Cyndi Howells' "Planting Your Family Tree Online." One suggestion she has for web site structure is to have different sections for different surnames, where you think of the sections as chapters. So I might start with my grandparents, for example, and have sections for Carroll, Stone, Fogarty, & Patterson. One reason she gives for doing it this way is that when the audience is relatives, say cousins of mine, they will mainly be interested in the part(s) of the web site that mention their ancestors. I can do this in Legacy, I guess, by using the Ancestor web page style, and making 4 separate web page projects, one for each grandparent. Then I would use some HTML editor (not Legacy) to make the home page or main index page, which would provide links to the separate projects. It looks like I could use the Home Button option on the Links tab of the web page dialog to tell Legacy to link each page back to the home page that I created outside Legacy. I was wondering if anybody else has tried something like this (and maybe run into problems I haven't thought of), or has any other thoughts on Legacy & web site structure. Thanks. Mike Carroll Oro Valley, AZ Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
