GEDCOM Converter...

[Del Ferguson]

Does anyone know of a Windows XP-compatible freeware program that converts a
GEDCOM file to Strict XHTML and CSS? I'm currently using GED2WWW, which is
a great little program. I'd just like to get away from manually modifying
the output files to match my other website pages. I use PAF 5 for my
database; however, the web pages it generates are even harder to convert to
Strict XHTML and CSS. Thanks.

Del Ferguson

[Bill Cribbs]

I like GedPage
http://www.frontiernet.net/~rjacob/gedpage.htm
because it lets you make a custom header and footer.
If you want to change the font and size of the text in
the content, just put the code at the end of the
header and it will format all of the surname page, the
names pages, and family group sheets accordingly.
To see various examples, go to http://www.famgen.net
and look at several of the families that are online.
They are all made by Gedpage.
Bill
GenealogyBuff.com
http://www.genealogybuff.com

--- Del Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:

Does anyone know of a Windows XP-compatible freeware
program that converts a
GEDCOM file to Strict XHTML and CSS? I'm currently
using GED2WWW, which is
a great little program. I'd just like to get away
from manually modifying
the output files to match my other website pages. I
use PAF 5 for my
database; however, the web pages it generates are
even harder to convert to
Strict XHTML and CSS. Thanks.

Del Ferguson

[Del Ferguson]

"Bill Cribbs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I like GedPage
http://www.frontiernet.net/~rjacob/gedpage.htm
because it lets you make a custom header and footer.
If you want to change the font and size of the text in
the content, just put the code at the end of the
header and it will format all of the surname page, the
names pages, and family group sheets accordingly.
To see various examples, go to http://www.famgen.net
and look at several of the families that are online.
They are all made by Gedpage.
Bill
GenealogyBuff.com
http://www.genealogybuff.com

--- Del Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:

Does anyone know of a Windows XP-compatible freeware
program that converts a
GEDCOM file to Strict XHTML and CSS? I'm currently
using GED2WWW, which is
a great little program. I'd just like to get away
from manually modifying
the output files to match my other website pages. I
use PAF 5 for my
database; however, the web pages it generates are
even harder to convert to
Strict XHTML and CSS. Thanks.

Del Ferguson

Bill,

Thanks for your response; however,
it is not exactly what I'm looking for.
It is not freeware and does not output
file in Strict XHTML. Basically, it is
almost what I have now.
Thanks anyway.

Del Ferguson

[Joe Makowiec]

On 11 Jan 2005 in soc.genealogy.computing, Del Ferguson wrote:

Does anyone know of a Windows XP-compatible freeware program that
converts a GEDCOM file to Strict XHTML and CSS? I'm currently using
GED2WWW, which is a great little program. I'd just like to get away
from manually modifying the output files to match my other website
pages. I use PAF 5 for my database; however, the web pages it
generates are even harder to convert to Strict XHTML and CSS.

You don't say anything about your hosting. If you have PHP (and
preferably MySQL) available, you might look at PHP GedView. It's dynamic
rather than static, and uses GEDCOM for input. I just ran it through the
W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) and it only threw one error (a
table height) on XHMTL Transitional, and the CSS needs a fair amount of
work to be valid.

http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

[Del Ferguson]

"Joe Makowiec" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

On 11 Jan 2005 in soc.genealogy.computing, Del Ferguson wrote:

Does anyone know of a Windows XP-compatible freeware program that
converts a GEDCOM file to Strict XHTML and CSS? I'm currently using
GED2WWW, which is a great little program. I'd just like to get away
from manually modifying the output files to match my other website
pages. I use PAF 5 for my database; however, the web pages it
generates are even harder to convert to Strict XHTML and CSS.

You don't say anything about your hosting. If you have PHP (and
preferably MySQL) available, you might look at PHP GedView. It's dynamic
rather than static, and uses GEDCOM for input. I just ran it through the
W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) and it only threw one error (a
table height) on XHMTL Transitional, and the CSS needs a fair amount of
work to be valid.

http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

Joe,

Thanks for the input. I haven't really explored PHP, yet. I may just try
the program you suggested. I just want to keep it simple. I'm reading
(slowly) several e-books about PHP and haven't enough knowledge about it to
determine if I want to take the leap. In my previous life, I started with
computers in the UNIX world, so it might not be so bad to jump into it. I
know there are several free photo galleries written in PHP out there, but I
haven't had much luck in making them work in my server--Charter Webpages. I
think I read somewhere that there is a test PHP program that will tell you
what your server is capable of. I'll have to give Google a work-out and
find it. Thanks, again, for your suggestion.

Del Ferguson

[Del Ferguson]

"Joe Makowiec" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

On 11 Jan 2005 in soc.genealogy.computing, Del Ferguson wrote:

Does anyone know of a Windows XP-compatible freeware program that
converts a GEDCOM file to Strict XHTML and CSS? I'm currently using
GED2WWW, which is a great little program. I'd just like to get away
from manually modifying the output files to match my other website
pages. I use PAF 5 for my database; however, the web pages it
generates are even harder to convert to Strict XHTML and CSS.

You don't say anything about your hosting. If you have PHP (and
preferably MySQL) available, you might look at PHP GedView. It's dynamic
rather than static, and uses GEDCOM for input. I just ran it through the
W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) and it only threw one error (a
table height) on XHMTL Transitional, and the CSS needs a fair amount of
work to be valid.

http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

Joe,

I looked at PHPGedView; read the information and FAQs; and went through the
test they recommended to verify PHP on the server. Guess what? Charter, in
this area, doesn't support PHP. There is a chance that the extension has to
be php3, but I figure the program has to work on a newer version of PHP,
anyway. That would explain my problems with several online photo albums
written in PHP. So, I guess I'm back to my quest for a free Windows-based
converter that conforms to strict XHTML and valid CSS. Maybe one of the
original "wizards" out there can update their great programs (GED2WWW,
GED2HTML, etc.). I'm not opposed to buying something that I find
outstanding, I'm just a senior citizen trying to hold on to my pennies. Fat
chance, right? Cyndi's List gives a list of several and I'm still slogging
through Google and looking at online examples. If they don't pass the
validator I use with FireFox, I move on. Again, Joe, thanks for your
suggestion.

Del Ferguson

[Joe Makowiec]

On 12 Jan 2005 in soc.genealogy.computing, Del Ferguson wrote:

I looked at PHPGedView; read the information and FAQs; and went
through the test they recommended to verify PHP on the server.
Guess what? Charter, in this area, doesn't support PHP.

That's no fun. I gather this is ISP-supplied webspace? You may want to
consider getting your own - hosting can be had for US$60/year and a
domain name as little as US$8. Even at that price, almost all hosts
throw in PHP; most throw in a database.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe