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So … a couple of days ago I posted my thinking about ways to make a mobile version of my website. A few hours later, I found Google Developers recommendation to use “Responsive Web Design” and I added that to the post. I concluded that I’ll probably use it. Now guess what was on my mind after that. Yup. ...

In 2008, I redesigned my Behold website to work well, look good, have unique features and be memorable. I’m still very happy with it, and the way I customized and integrated the forum and blog into the design is something I’m quite proud of. I carefully chose a fixed size width of 782 pixels that printed ...

Every so often, I take a step back and assess where Behold is. I always have my Future Plans that I am aiming for, but they occasionally have to be adjusted for new ideas, new trends and new objectives. A number of important things have been going on that are causing me to make small course corrections to the ...

About 5 years ago, I was very impressed when my best friend, who lives in Vancouver, sent me a link to his Picasa Web Album with photos of his trip online, a service provided by Google, I was able to view, comment on, and download the pictures, as were all the others he shared the files with. This was early on ...

The provisional program for the Unlock the Past Cruise (February 10 – 19, 2013) is now posted. It looks like a terrific program with about 150 sessions in the four lecture theatres in the Conference area of the ship. The conference area is reserved for our exclusive use on this cruise. I’m personally ...

I’ve written recently that I’ve been looking for a new camera with GPS capabilities. For a genealogist, the ability to capture the location of the gravestone, ancestral home or workplace of your relative will help you many times over. First, you will be able to find your way back to it. And anyone you give ...

I’ve pretty well got the mechanism working in Behold. Now it's a matter of finalizing what life events I want it to handle. Now what the heck are “Life Events”? My idea are that they are anything in a person’s life that is significant enough to change that person’s life in some real way, Often these ...

I was surprised a couple of days ago to get an email from a Behold user in Prague, who told me that Behold wasn’t sorting the Czech letters correctly in its Name, Place and other indexes. I was a bit surprised by this as I thought that Windows was supposed to sort Unicode correctly, and the exact sorting ...

One thing that I’ve done to Behold’s Everything Report as I add the life events, is a sneaky little restructuring of how the family group is presented. Up to now, I’ve been following the traditional genealogy software way of presenting families. You have the father, the mother, their children and the ...

I’ve tweeted over the last few days of GEDCOM X’s announcements on its blog posts. I’ve followed its progress since Tamura Jones broke the news about it last December. I met Ryan Heaton, the employee of FamilySearch doing the most work on it, at RootsTech in February, and listened to his talks on the ...