Website Support Table of Contents

The following topics may help you with creating and editing your XXGenWeb site pages; troubleshooting coding problems; uploading web pages to your website; and provide useful tips, tricks and tools.

• Topic Ideas for Your XXGenWeb Site - Ideas for categories you might consider using on your site.
• Design Tips - Dos & Don'ts.
• Styling Text with CSS - How to add a bit of pizazz to your site using CSS, heading tags, and text styling.
• Styling Images with CSS - How to get your images lookin' good on the page!
• Using Templates to Redesign Web Pages - Create your own NEW design or get a jump start by using a template.
• What does all this Code Mean? - Definitions and a bit more on this page.
• DWT & Page Editing - How to work with DWTs using Expression Web and Dreamweaver.
• Tips & Tricks - Helpful tools for county coordinators.

Know the difference!

HTML - HyperText Markup Language - Creates the structure of your web, header, footer, content, and layouts.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets - Creates the "Style" or "Look" of your web. Describes how colors, fonts, image placement, heading tags, and more should be displayed on the web page.

JavaScript - Creates browser behaviors. It is what makes a dropdown menu work, a slide show to "slide," a lightbox to show photos, and more.

Editing Your Site - Links to Tutorials

• Batch Processing Tombstone Photos - How to batch process data, with slide show! Thanks, Tina.
• How to Upload Files using FTP - A short tutorial using FileZilla as an example.
• Joining Google Groups - How to set-up a Google account and join a group.
• Microsoft Expression Web 4 FREE [offsite] - Genealogist, Pat Geary, shows how to Download Free WYSIWYG software & explains how to use it.
• Round The Bend Wizards Help Center [offsite] - This is a great, detailed site for Expression Web tutorials as well as generic web editing program tutorials.
• W3Schools [offsite] - This site has information for beginners and for experienced webmasters.
• HTMLGoodies [offsite] - This site has lots of goodies!
• HTML.com [offsite] - Helps web developers at all skill levels to craft the best HTML and CSS possible.

Need More Help?

Join the USGenWeb 'Discuss' Group

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Page content reviewed and/or updated by the Advisory Board 2023 Jan

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