November 17, 2024

In 2010 I decided to make a website, primarily to share my genealogy research. As Janice Sellers told me, "A website is a cousin-catcher."

What I know now versus what I knew when I started: page names, navigational hierarchies, points of view.

Portals, menus, icons, categories
Herding the audience with converging option

My website homepage

Top of my SiteMap Genealogy section.

Genealogy Portal honoring my parents

Genealogy Hub for navigating from my grandparents

My 2018 idea for the Hub and menu icons as a sort of remote control interface

	Hubs and Portals
	Finding Aids
	Genealogies
	Matrices = Family Groups
	Names
	Geography
	Photos
	Female Lines
	Stories, Narratives
	Novel perspectives & slices, Family Gatherings, Diagonals, Cross-sections, subsets & supersets

Should the menu for a tree look like a tree?

This is what the hotspots look like inside my web design program, Adobe Dreamweaver.

A Finding Aid is another way to get around.

Websites don't need to have their own finding software: Google and other search engines now provide this EXTREMELY useful service for all websites.

Genealogies

This category has changed over time, and has included downloadable pdf summaries of research on specific families, as well as web pages devoted to similar material.
The problems of point of view and generations

Matrices or Family Group Sheets

My father's mother's family, the Altsteins, Oldsteins, and Stones and my Aunt Fanny's Address book.
Generational navigation: Chutes and Ladders

Names

The names of Toby Yecht; Stacks

Geography

Photos

Albums, resolution and restoration, watermarks

Female Lines

Stories and Narratives

Novel perspectives & slices, Family Gatherings, Diagonals, Cross-sections, subsets & supersets