Talk:Developing Genealogy Web-Pages

=Discussion= If you have any thoughts or ideas on Developing Genealogy Web-Pages, please e-mail me and I will document the conversation here, as well as adjusting the book, as needed.

Bob Fornal [mailto:bob@fornal.org bob@fornal.org] http://bob.fornal.org

Delete or move this section
This sort of discussion of general website creation etc. does not belong in a book about genealogy. Put it in some book about HTML and hosting and whatever, and link to it from here. Not only does it not belong here, but lots of this information is quite wrong and/or out of date. How many people are actually going to hand-code family websites these days?! A discussion of the various CMSs around that are suitable for genealogical research would be useful, but not this! Sorry if I'm harsh, but I'd love to see this book grow into something that one could recommend to the hordes of 60-something grandmothers who are wanting to 'do their family history'. :-)

What the above user said
But a little less harshly. I would rename the book as "Minimalist Web Development." IMHO, minimalism will never go out of style. I used write web pages that proudly displayed the "Built With Notepad" logo. The right to do that is one of very few things I actually miss about being an ex-Windows user. Also, the digital divide is real, even here in America, so a sneakernet-based method of managing a website is an extremely powerful toolkit to be sharing in the public domain. Perhaps some of my own ideas from http://tribes.tribe.net/netizen would be appropriate for inclusion in such a tome.

N8chz (discuss • contribs) 19:39, 11 November 2011 (UTC)