2010 Summer Web Site

I am very close on releasing this website!!! A quick visit by Joseph last night solved my CSS issue and I was finally able to fix the margins through pages containing text in the body. ( I am officially dumb for missing this easy fix, but that's why he's the expert. It took him all of three minutes to fix it ) So a quick re-write of four biographies, manually adding all media to GRAMPS and adding new photographs to photobucket will do it. The testing thus far has gone excellent! All other pages appear to be bug free and the genealogy data flows seamlessly. I am hoping everyone finds the new design pleasing and a bit more appropriate to the subject matter. I am getting excited as it has been a long time since I have actually released anything new on this website, due to family and work. The stars have appeared to line up for granting me the giant amount of time needed this year to not only release the new version but to make new releases much less time consuming. I am still not sure how this will relate to just how quick I'll be able to update data but with a bit of luck and some creative coding, I might be actually able to update monthly.! OK ... That's the news .. Now back to the biographies. Just a note... I am not providing footnotes for sources or references on line in the biographies. Those remain in the Ferris Library and are available upon request. It's just easier to show the Biography without all the clutter and let you take me at my word of it's accuracy. Once again sources are available upon request. !!! Thanks and happy hunting. !

2010 Summer Web Site

I have organized the data across the pages, coded the ones that need it so that they will blend with the data. The thirteen main pages related to the site are up and running and I should have them bug tested before mid week, of next week. Still to do are some pesky fixes and the re-writing of the Biographies page. Adding the media to the GRAMPS software from FTM manually is pretty time consuming and I think two days will take care of that. I am very excited to finally have it in the testing status so I can see it in a web browser and view the new design. I am hoping that before end of fall I will have developed a new strategy which will allow for quicker versions to be released. I am going to call on the king of code in our family - Joseph - and ask him to spend a brainstorming session with me for an afternoon. Though I like to be able to call this site my own and be proud of my creation, I am not above consulting the expert in this web software engineering field. His insights and suggestions are always spot on though often also beyond my programming skills !!! I guess in all this the good news is I plan on releasing this new version for all of you to see on the following weekend. Week of June 12-13th. Take a look and as always, please send me you suggestions, additions, and corrections. Thanks again for looking in. Hello to my newest "found cousin" Larry Ferris in Nova Scotia. Looking forward to our future discussions. Happy hunting out there !