Exploring Rootsweb: Are you using Dream Weaver, WS_FTP, or Front Page to publish your site?

in my email from Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com
or RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: Freepages-Help

In a message zzz@cebridge.net writes:
If you are trying to get to your file manager, you need to go to
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi

Are you using Dream Weaver, WS_FTP, or Front Page to publish your site?
If so, you will need the information to upload. There's a login, password,
etc.....all of which can be found at the Rootsweb site. Of course, someone
familiar with that may be able to tell you exactly where to look, as I just
use the file manager to do all of my pages. It just seems a lot easier than
the programs available --

First DO use My Network Places in any Microsoft operating system
and the Wizard to set up this url

I use ftp://dnkcen:mypassword@users.rootsweb.com/

you MUST use

ftp://yourusername:yourpassword@users.rootsweb.com/

and open it

then put http://www.rootsweb.com/fileman/ into your browser address bar

Windows OS - and Netscape have built in ftp
separate utilities are unnecessary and belong to the past

if you paste:-

ftp://yourusername:yourpassword@users.rootsweb.com into Netscape 7.2 and use

the edit this page after navigating to the one you want to fix

edit it using Netscape Composer

WYSWIG or TAGS of HTML code according to taste

and then publish

it works well

with one disadvantage it duplicated the gif and jpg

which were already in my images file on site.

so I used fileman to go on line (ie or into my folder on the Rootsweb machine's hard disk)

and delete the duplicates and repair the broken links which appeared in the page

http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/index.html which is my front door to that site.

The changes to this Danish national archives web site http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/ on Monday 27th September 2004,
meant I needed to update that page twice this week,

adding the news about passwords and fixing some broken links

I used "right click for a new new window " in a google search string

site:www.rootsweb.com "right click for a new new window "

which found the other three pages for me.

Then I found an URL had been changed and a link was was broken

the search string

site:www.rootsweb.com Statens Arkivers KIRKEBØGER på Internet

found the 4 pages to fix

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updated October 2 2004 Hugh Watkins

goes in the footers

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Mrs. Google said:- "Your search - site:www.rootsweb.com "updated October 2 2004 Hugh Watkins" - did not match any documents," which means google is not updated yet

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site:www.rootsweb.com updated "Hugh Watkins"

finds nearly all my pages - and a noticeboard

and site:www.rootsweb.com created "Hugh Watkins" finds 27 more,
and now I can see where I need to review and update

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Please note all these tools are freebies !

BTW you don't really need to buy books on html anymore

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&amp;amp;hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=w3+html

finds

http://validator.w3.org/ which found two mistakes in my copy pastede code of

this page:-
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/index.html

both in line 287 - and so back to fileman