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
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Hubs and Portals |
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Finding Aids |
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Genealogies |
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Matrices = Family Groups |
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Names |
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Geography |
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Photos |
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Female Lines |
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Stories, Narratives |
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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
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