Link to new page about English beer and other products which are available in the Netherlands and to it's home page.
The first section is to remind me of what images I have uploaded. Below are
The second section is to remind me of things like where our other "homes" are and what to do after changing a web page to advertise my Trevan family history (or genealogy) web site
Section 1 - Web Page Creation
Where to Make Your Own Animated GIFs Online
To make an animated GIF you can either buy some software or use an on-line site. In both cases you need to prepare your static GIF files separately an in advance of the animation phase.
For the on-line service you need to upload the GIFs to their site from your hard disc or give the URL if they are already visible on the www.
There are other useful looking links available from http://www.andover.net/links.html
World Access - My main Trevan family history web home page
- Computer
- comp_001.gif
- Under construction
- Compressor - const001.gif
- Flags for where the Trevan family lived
- Australia - ausflag1.gif
- England - eng_flag.gif
- Kernow (Cornwall) - kernow.jpg
- Nederland (Netherlands / Holland) - nedflag1.gif
- Union Jack - ukflag01.gif
- USA - usaflag1.gif
- Links
- Chain - link_003.gif
- Maps
- North America - namerica.gif
- USA - usa_map1.gif
- World - world_05.gif
- New
- Yellow label - new_0001.gif
- Trees
- Deciduous with fruit tree_003.gif
Under Construction
Button of man with shovel - const001.gif
Backgrounds
Peach - peach_01.jpg
Section 2 - Publishing
Whowhere?
View "Collis Family" at whowhere? - now obsolete
Limitations
- requires .html naming convention
- needs Netscape x-html plug-in to download
- readers get commercials in extra windows each time
Features
Geocities
View Mary's Families Originating from Cornwall at Geocities and can be editted in the members area
Limitations
- server often uncontactable from the Netherlands (or >20 hops when it is)
- reads get random commercials in extra windows
- cannot have links to other advertising pages
- encourages "dwellers" not to use their own names, which is not what genealogy is all about
Features
Excite
A more powerful search engine
Features
free email - Libby Batchelor set up as collis.research@mailexcite.com and Mary Trevan as mary.trevan@mailexcite.com
A more powerful search engine
Features
Yet to be fully explored
A page with links to many search engines and similar pages - Internet Resource Site or Sax in Oz - search engines
simple Altavista or
advanced Altavista or
Excite or
Lycos in the UK or
Dewa by categories
(I use Family & People, Personal Home Page, and Hobbies and Games)
URL Submission
2007
Search Engine Optimization and SEO Tools
2001 - may no longer be valid!
A multiple site free submission site, Submit It which
includes a limited free service which includes most of those listed below,
Submit your URL for free manually, page by page and
visible quickly at
Dewa
or use the META tags and web-crawlers with (out-of-date)
Old AltaVista (1 to 2 day delay) (new) Altavista or Lycos (UK) which says 2 - 3 weeks to be listed, or indirectly to Excite
or use one with it's own indexing algorithm
Web crawler which says up to 2 weeks, but you need to write your pages with this search engine in mind
To check your page for correct usage of META TAGS check here with 
Proxy Servers
When my ISP cannot contact certain sites, here are some of the alternative proxy server sites which I can try
- World Access - http://apc.wxs.nl/proxy.pac - the one recommended by my ISP here in the Netherlands
Doesn't help for getting access to the rest of the world!
- http://proxy.mcmail.com
It takes about 20 seconds for my machine to contact this proxy, but then everything happens quickly and the connection has not been broken (so far!)
- A site with a list of alternative proxy servers
Distant Cousins
Surname Submission - I've used it before but got no reply 19 Jun 1999 (no matter which proxy server I tried!) It may or may not still exist.
