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This screen contains:

1. GEDCOM file to read from:

2. Search button for GEDCOM file to read from:

3. Two radio buttons '.HTM' and '.HTML':

4. Two check boxes 'English' and 'French':

5. Name for base (first) page edit box for both English and French:

6. Title button for both English and French:

7. Other Output Languages button:

8. General Settings button:

9. Privacy Settings button:

10. Optional Pages button:

11. Language button:

12. HTML Directory to write to edit box:

13. Search button for HTML Directory to write to:

14. Close button:

15. Create HTML files button:

16. View HTML files button:

GEDCOM file to read from:  

This is where you specify the GEDCOM file that you will be importing (reading from).  This is a file on your hard drive, that was created by whatever genealogy program you use to store your information.  This is probably not the file that your genealogy program uses, but a file that it can create.  In my example, I named the file PAPINEAU.GED.  Yours will not be named the same, but it will have the .GED extension.  If you don't want to type in the path, you can use the Search button to allow windows to help you find the file.

Click here for more information about and a better description of GEDCOM files.

 

Search button for GEDCOM file to read from:

When you press the 'Search' button next to the edit box for 'GEDCOM file to read from', you will get this popup dialog.  You use this to navigate to the directory (folder) where you GEDCOM file is located.  Then you click on the file once to select it.  Then press the open button.  This will put the file path and name in the 'GEDCOM file to read from' edit box.

Two radio buttons '.HTM' and '.HTML':

These radio buttons allow you to select the file extension for your HTML files.  This makes little difference to the creation of the files.  But some people have a definite preference, so I allow you to select which you want to use.

Two check boxes 'English' and 'French:

This is where you specify which languages you want to create webpages in.  You can select any or all of the languages available.  Only two of them are displayed here, the others can be found by pressing the 'Other Output Languages' button.

Name for base (first) page edit box for both English and French:

This is where you specify the name of the base (home page).  This is defaulted to index.htm.  Most websites require that the homepage be named index.htm (or index.html).  If the main GED4WEB page, is going to be your website's homepage, then leave it index.htm.  If the main GED4WEB page is not going to be your homepage's main page, change it to a different name.

Each language must have a different name for the base page, and you can specify the base page name for each.

Title button for both English and French:

If you would like to specify the title of your base page, you can do that here.  Each language can have different text for the title of the base page.  When you press the Title button next to one of the languages you select, you will see the Title popup dialog

Other Output Languages button:

Follow this link for a full explanation of the other output languages.

 

General Settings button:

Follow this link for a full explanation of the General Settings.

 

Privacy Settings button:

Follow this link for a full explanation of the Privacy Settings 

 

Optional Pages button:

Follow this link for a full explanation of the Optional Pages.

Language button:

Follow this link for a full explanation of the language dialog.

HTML Directory to write to edit box:

When you create your web pages, you need to have somewhere on your computers hard drive to store them until you are able to upload them to your website.  This dialog allows you to specify where (on your computers hard drive) you place the files it creates.  All files created by GED4WEB will be created here.  In this example, the files will be created on my computers D driver in the directory MyHTMLFiles.  You can not specify the address of your website here.  GED4WEB does not copy the file to your website.  There are plenty of FTP programs available for free on the internet.

Search button for HTML Directory to write to:

If you don't want to type in the HTML Directory to write to, you can press the search button and navigate through your computer's hard drive(s) and select the directory that way. 

Close button:

When you are done using GED4WEB press the close button to close the program.

Create HTML Files button:

After you have all the settings the way you want them, press the Create HTML Files button and watch as GED4WEB creates your files.   You will see a status bar appear and keep you updates as to the progress of the file creation proccess.

View HTML Files button:

After the files have been created.  Press the View HTML Files button and GED4WEB will launch your default web browser and load the main (base) page.  From here you can navigate around your new web pages.