Charles,
I think your missing the point of having the current year somewhere on
the page. It's not so much as letting your visitors know what the
current year is, it is more to let those visitors know that the site has
at least been updated sometime in the last year. I didn't take Sandra as
saying we need to just put the date on the page but that in someway it
should be included as a "last updated" notice or copyright notice.
I tend to update all my pages with a copyright notice every year which
includes the current year as well as the last time a page has been
updated. Even if the content hasn't changed, a current copyright date
would appear that you have at least visited the page to make sure it
still works. Visitors just want to feel like they are looking at a site
that has not been sitting there unchanged for a few years.
I don't think you have to do this to every page, just your main index
page. I'm well aware that a lot of data on a site is never going to
change but the main page is the one everyone sees first and it should at
least give the appearance of being current.
Denny Shirer - drdx(a)neo.rr.com - Canton, OH
Shirer Family Genealogy -
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong
Muskingum County, OHGenWeb -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmuskin/
Charles R. Weese wrote:
> 4. and we have our current year displayed on our index page.
>
> Sandy Quinn
> your Ohio SC
I have been thinking about number 4 ever since you started
talking about it. I don't see any benefit to it and it has never been
required before. In the nine years I have had my sites, I have never
had a year displayed on the home page (except for the last updated text
beside each subpage link that is updated occasionally). That is a more
precise date than just the year.
I think most of my visitors are smart enough to figure out what
the current year is without me telling them.
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Charles R. Weese, 4012 Pardee Rd., Stow, Ohio 44224
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http://web.raex.com/~cweese/weese/
and
http://web.raex.com/~cweese/vance/ for my family info.
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Gallia County Ohio at
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Jackson County Ohio at
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