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Volume 1 Issue 1 March 1998



SOFTWARE REVIEW


Pssssst! got 2 Meg or less of hard drive space at your local Internet Service Provider (ISP)? Want to participate in Gene Starks GENDEX database system and have your family listed with the other 2,000,000 names? Well if your watching your available on line resources like I am and need to produce "contacts" with your displayed information on the Internet the answer to our problems is LESLIE HOWARDs GED2WWW program.

Features
  • Produces very little HTML (can be less than 300 bytes/individual depending on options selected). Much less HTML than most similar packages.
  • Can produce a gendex.txt file suitable for indexing with Gendex
  • Supports accented/international characters (ANSEL set)
  • Produce portable, standard HTML that is browser independent. The output of GED2WWW is tested for adherence to standards with WEBLINT before every release,
  • Dates can be hidden for individuals that are (or may be) alive.
  • Summary page, index pages, surname page, and data pages produced.
  • Dates can be listed with individuals on the index pages.
  • User selectable text/background/link colors
  • User selectable background images
  • Very fast! Benchmarks: 6400 person GEDCOM in 70 seconds on 33MHz 486 w/ 20 MB RAM 22000 person GEDCOM in 15 seconds on 150MHz Cyrix 686 w/ 64 MB RAM
  • DOS and UNIX versions available (DOS version will run under Windows 3.1, 95, and NT).
  • Source code is distributed free.
  • Low cost of $0!!!!!

    Design Philosophy

    1. The primary purpose of an online genealogy database is not to share all of your information with the world, but to drive contacts with other people who are researching your lines.

    2. Many people have limited Internet resources (web host space, browser bandwidth), so the HTML files should be kept as small as possible.

    To accomplish #1 the database should be well indexed and extensively cross-linked. To accomplish #2 the amount of information listed for each person should be as little as possible, while still providing enough information to support #1.

    Cousin Doug is currently using this program on his web site Freeman Links, so if you want to see the output from this program just zip over to that site.


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