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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Re: Max chars limit (5500). My current draft is around 12000... Any pointers please?
« on: Sunday 05 April 15 13:51 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your pointers both Bob and Ken...
The rub of the matter is certainly a simple question "anybody know the whereabouts of the diary of X, killed one hundred years ago?". The problem is X had massive responsibilities in a situation that was difficult enough already. I have to be maximally sure I cover his back as best I can.
X came from Marlborough, Wilts. That's why I had always had RootsChat in mind as the place to launch. I will not bring anything new to the subject. However researchers in the past have already been on the quest for this diary and there are plenty of allusions in the specialized military literature to X. I just wanted to spell out those facts in a neutral objective way perhaps to discourage people from leaping to conclusions too quickly. At the same time, the descendants of X might be very reluctant to let his name get dragged in the mud. We have no contact. I need to be very tactful. This is why I am still intent on a multi-page account.
Berlin-Bob's reply in particular gave me a wake-up call and made me realise I need to figure out how to create a blog/ web-site specially for this query. My target audience is thus anybody who actively types in "X" into a search engine. I just need to feed those Webbots properly.
Shame really I had half got used to Bulletin Board markup language, much simpler than the whole CSS/ HTML thing against which I am fighting now at Wordpress and Blogger. For the moment I have to switch brains and go technical.
Gallipoli100 is fast approaching. The clock is ticking. Time to study my Emacs editor manual.
Thanks for all your trouble in moderating an excellent web-site,
Jeremy
The rub of the matter is certainly a simple question "anybody know the whereabouts of the diary of X, killed one hundred years ago?". The problem is X had massive responsibilities in a situation that was difficult enough already. I have to be maximally sure I cover his back as best I can.
X came from Marlborough, Wilts. That's why I had always had RootsChat in mind as the place to launch. I will not bring anything new to the subject. However researchers in the past have already been on the quest for this diary and there are plenty of allusions in the specialized military literature to X. I just wanted to spell out those facts in a neutral objective way perhaps to discourage people from leaping to conclusions too quickly. At the same time, the descendants of X might be very reluctant to let his name get dragged in the mud. We have no contact. I need to be very tactful. This is why I am still intent on a multi-page account.
Berlin-Bob's reply in particular gave me a wake-up call and made me realise I need to figure out how to create a blog/ web-site specially for this query. My target audience is thus anybody who actively types in "X" into a search engine. I just need to feed those Webbots properly.
Shame really I had half got used to Bulletin Board markup language, much simpler than the whole CSS/ HTML thing against which I am fighting now at Wordpress and Blogger. For the moment I have to switch brains and go technical.
Gallipoli100 is fast approaching. The clock is ticking. Time to study my Emacs editor manual.
Thanks for all your trouble in moderating an excellent web-site,
Jeremy
. Here's my proposed structure (assuming that the 5500 upper bound is strictly enforced):