Jacki,
I will say again, thanks for pointing out the broken links, however the message
was interpreted by me to mean that my page was not up to standards for the guidelines.
I did not see anything stating that my page met the guidelines and a suggestion
that those links be corrected.
I apologize if I read it wrong and as stated in my message yes, some links were broken.
I fixed the Lee Co. page last night and the others will be corrected today, however
I feel no need to correct the missing slash or the redirects.
Debra
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacki Jonas
To: GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Fw: Compliance Checks -- SW Region
I *never* said that the page had to pass this link-checker. Just that it
was a quick place to find broken links.
In fact, the current Guidelines do not address broken links. I mentioned
the broken links as a courtesy, but apparently I wasn't clear on that. I
do apologize for that. Broken links did not get anyone a noncompliance
notice -- I am sending emails to *all* the SW CCs as I work my way thru the
pages.
For the record, I don't care about redirects, nor about missing trailing
slashes -- the two things Debra mentions below. Those come up as a yellow
warning using this link-checker (it's not a validator). What she didn't
mention is the red
HTTP Code returned: 404
HTTP Message: Not Found
messages that it also returned.
Those links are *broken*.
Most (but not all) of those are on secondary pages, and use
http://www.rootsweb.com/~GAGenweb/
rather than
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/
which I mentioned in my original message to her.
Do those broken links make Dougherty noncompliant? No.
Dougherty is in compliance.
I used only the minimum page requirements in section 16 of the Guidelines to
determine areas of non-compliance.
And yes, in case you are wondering, I did check Colquitt as well -- using
the same checklist I used for everyone else. There are a couple of minor
things there -- links to the neighboring counties are not on the front page
(guideline 16E), they are on the history page. I don't have all the
resources listed in guideline 16F. I had hoped to correct those pages
tonight, but instead I've answered Debra's question. I will be unable to
correct those pages until the first of July -- well within my 30 days --
but I will do so then.
Peace,
Jacki
At 01:06 AM 6/24/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Ok,,
Now I do understand why Bettie was upset.
I did run my pages through this validator and came up with quite a few
redirects for
bobby.org which is the disability validator address indeed
and still
viable but redirects to new pages and several errors on not having the
/
at the end of
the directory ie: gadoughe instead of gadoughe/
My question now is the same as Bettie's,, where in the guidelines does it
say
that our
pages need to meet the w3c validator for us to be in compliance with
the
GAGENweb??
I have asked this of my RC who sent me the notice on my page.. Now I
am
asking of the
SC,, why do our pages have to meet the W3C validator and where in the
guidelines
does it state this??
Debra Crosby
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacki Jonas
To: poohbos(a)poohbos.com
Cc: GAGENWEB-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:02 AM
Subject: Compliance Checks -- Dougherty County
Hello Debra,
I have started visiting the counties in the SW region to check for
compliance to the Guidelines, which are located
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/guidelines.htm#16.
I visited Dougherty County today and only found the following.
Misc:
1) There are broken links. The quickest way to find these is to use the
linkchecker at
http://validator.w3.org/checklink. If you check the box to
check recursively, it will check the whole site. IIRC, most of them were
typos using capital GAgenweb instead of gagenweb.
Thanks, and have a great day!
Jacki
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Colquitt County GAGenWeb Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/
Southwest Regional Coordinator
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