I think most of you have heard about the guy that is charging folks to
access links that are actually going to free sites, including some
USGenWeb pages.
There is nothing illegal about links. The problem is he is making the
links appear to be on his site, and he is charging folks to access.
Holly Timm has created a very nice header that you are free to use on your
county web sites. As long as your site is on Rootsweb, this will work.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~seky/sampleheader.html
Note that it identifies the page and gives the URL. This is important,
as this guy has framed one page of Confederate records that is on the
Lamar Co. Tx USGenWeb site, but there is no way to tell who that page
belongs to unless you scroll all the way to the bottom and see the link
back to the main page. So you need to identify ALL of your pages on your
web site with a state and USGenWeb header.
I think our archives TOCs are pretty strongly identified as with USGenWeb
and being a free site, but it wouldn't hurt to help folks break out of
frames. Here is what I am putting at the top of the Texas TOCs that I
take care of.
<P align="center">
Press <a target="_top"
href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm">here...
to break out of frames</p>
Got that from Marti. Should have used it years ago.
David
dmorgan(a)efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm