Web Page Editing for FreeREG.

The majority of the web pages are maintained by the webmasters. Should anyone wish to become responsible for any aspect of the website they are asked to contact the webmasters.

Coordinators are encouraged to maintain the content of their county webpages following the basic layout adopted by FreeREG. The county pages are incorporated into the website by either of the webmasters every 4 weeks.

Managing your county pages is quite straightforward.

The files are managed in Notepad; they are text files but with an html or shtml extension.
You make the changes with Notepad and look at what you have done using your browser.
The webmasters can provide you with the basic current content for your county.
The layouts vary slightly but the principles remains exactly the same.
Each line in the a county page is made up from the same building block that starts with the <tr> and ends with the </tr> shown below.
Each column in the row is made up of the content between the pair <td> </td> within that block.
The only complex part is in that first column where we tell the Browser there is a link to an external webpage using the piece between the <A> </A>. In this case we are linking to the specific parish on the Genuki website.
What ever you put between the <td> </td> or <td class="done"> </td> or <td class="progress"> </td>in any column will be displayed.
To add another line simply copy the block between the <TR>and the </TR>. and paste it between the lines you want the line to appear at. Just make sure the paste is done between the end of one block and the start of the next. i.e. Paste after the </TR> and before the next <TR>.

<tr>
<td > <A HREF="http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/w/walpole_st_andrew/">Walpole</A></td>
<td > St. Andrew AT</td>
<td class="done"> AT<br>complete<br>missing 1638-1667 </td>
<td class="done">1600-1812 </td>
<td class="progress"> </td>
<td >Pat Greetham </td>
<td class="done"> 1600-1812 </td>
<td class="progress"> </td>
<td >Pat Greetham </td>
<td class="done"> 1600-1812 </td>
<td class="progress"></td>
<td >Pat Greetham </td>
</tr>

It is very simple and easy.

A more complete description is available on the Google Groups Discusion Group in which coordinators are members; http://groups.google.ca/group/freereg-coord-distribution?hl=en

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