This page contains links to notes for most of my talks. Where practicable narrative text has been added and link material added to form stand alone tutorials. These talks were originally put together and presented at the Computer Group of West Surrey FHS - and as such these notes were only accessable via the WSFHS Computer Group's program page which I host. However due to growing demand for talks by other FHS's - I have moved these pages so be to be directly accessable from my main web-pages.
Titles and Descriptions
- Home Computer Networks
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How to set-up home networks - and consideration of some of
the security issues. If you have more than one computer in your
home that needs to access the internet - then a home network
could be your answer - allowing printer sharing and providing
quick way to transfer files between computers - without the
file size constraints of floppy disks.
- Graphics for Genealogists
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Computer Graphics is a big subject and a single talk can only
scratch the surface. Consequently these talk / demonstrations
are formulated to cover a number of aspects that should be of
particular interest to genealogists - not forgetting that
today's images are tomorrows historical data. Topics that can
be included (but not all in one talk):-
- creating - combining - and editing images
- making those old documents and pictures clearer
- restoring damaged photographs
- colouring black and white photographs
- creating simple animations
- why those screen images look different when printed
The pages here are a basic introduction to colours - displays - and printing. The bulk of any talk being demonstration - as graphice is very much a visual process.
- Web Site Design
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Web page creation is now quite a simple process - and with
a large number of ISP's including web space for free
- why not design your own Web-Site of one or more pages.
Whilst the simplest way of creating web pages is to use
one of the free wysiwyg screen editors - they can be
done using a plain text editor.
Also web-pages don't necessarily have to be published on the internet - as they provide you with a very flexible way of storing cross referenced Family History notes & images. Notes in this universal html format can easily be shared - as they can be displayed by any computer with a web browser - regardless of what operating system is in use. Organise your notes into webpages and you will be able to browse them as you do the Internet.
Since putting these notes on creating web-sites together - "universal" browser support for stylesheets has increased to a level where they can be generally used to control page layout. A single Stylesheets may be used to contol the layout of a whole website such that the appearance of all pages can be changed by alterations to a single file. Whilst the checklists are as valid as the day they were written - this talk and support pages now require a significant update. Although usable pages can be produced using the techniques herein - stylesheets result in cleaner - more flexible and more readable html code. Particularly if hand coded - as opposed to using a wysiwyg editor.Meanwhile I am in the process of composing some interim pages to help bridge the gap. Following that (time permitting) - I will be re-vamping Web-Site Design notes.
Having published your pages - don't expect the world to beat a path to your door - this takes time - effort and content of interest. However private websites can compete with the professionals as can be seen from a typical months statistics for this web-site.
