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| Watson/Canet Home Page |
From each of the entries on the chart there is a link to a narrative about the individual. These range from rather long entries with photos and documents to shorter entries.
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| Whitley Family Group Chart |
| Site URL | http://watsoncanet.webcon.net.au/ |
| Site Name | Watson and Canet Family History Site |
| Author | Michelle |
| Author's Contact Details | Email Link provided |
| Last Updated | Not evident |
| Age of Site | Not evident |
| Software Used | Cannot ascertain. Appears to use genealogy program on family line pages |
| Persons in Database | Cannot ascertain |
| Time Span | 4 generations for each family line |
| Index of names | Not evident |
| Prominent Surnames | Displayed on home page |
| Password Protected | Free access |
| Details of Living Persons Supressed | Does not appear to include living people |
| Data Sourced | Sources mentioned in individual narratives |
| Search Facility | No |
| Photos/Documents | Photos and relevant documents included in individual narratives |
| Geodata | No |
| Navigation | Site Navigation sidebar on all pages makes navigating easy. Plus smaller menu at bottom of pages |
| Design | Very good elements |
| Extras | 1. Pages for Brickwall ancestors with opportunities for fellow researchers to register details. 2. Links to Places of Interest, Genealogy and Online sites |
1 comment:
Dear Geniaus,
Thanks for the feature. I thought I'd answer some of your questions:
Software - the website is entirely coded in HTML, with extensive use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I use Dreamweaver to develop and manage my websites. CSS allows me to completely change the look of the site by changing one .css file. I used CSS for two reasons, it allows me to update navigation and other standard elements contained on all pages by changing a single .css file and it allows me to better optimise page viewing for text based users including those viewing the site on mobile devices.
The site is nearly completely text based. All this means it loads very quickly and it looks exactly the same on a computer monitor as it does on an iPhone or iPad.
For example the trees are not generated by family tree software but are manually coded tables made using HTML.
This site wasn't so much a replacement for a full family tree but to make my research more accessible and to make it more likely to be harvested and listed in search engines.
What I need to do is to add links to both my blog and to my Ancestry family tree, which is much more extensive.
Cheers,
Michelle
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