OHGenWeb County Coordinator Technical Help Page

This page is geared to help you find programs which will help you in making your webpages and make your life a little easier on the internet.

Freeware Programs

  • Firefox — Internet Browser that is far superior to Internet Explorer. Hundreds of available add-ons for specialized work, including webmasters.
  • KompoZer — Webpage making program
  • Gimp— Image program
  • Fast Stone Image Viewer — also does some image manipulation.
  • Filezilla — FTP program
  • SmartFTP — FTP Program (Effective July 1, 2008, SmartFTP is no longer a free program)
  • Thunderbird — email program
  • Irfanview — Image Viewing program
  • Xenu Link Sleuth — is a freeware program you download onto your machine, and you can run it to check all the links on any web page (or a whole web site). Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It generates a report of all broken links, and you can set it to also generate a site map. You can set it to email the report, or to generate an html version of it.
  • The Javascript Source — There are a lot of things you can do with Javascript. Here you'll find hundreds of scripts ready for you to copy and paste. There's also a script to encode e-mail addresses so spammers' harvesters don't pick them up.
  • Dynamic Drive — DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your site.
  • HTML Entities — Need to use a special character like ¢ or Æ or even ♠ but don't know how to do it? Entities provide a method of entering characters that cannot be expressed in the document's character encoding or that cannot easily be entered on a keyboard.
  • Open Office — Alternative to a lot of Microsoft products, like Word, Excel & others. Rather large program, but the word processor will easily save a word document as a .pdf file.
  • Open Source Web Design, Open Web Design and Free Layouts — Thousands of Open Source templates.
  • Stock.Xchng — Thousands of free photos
  • Non-Dithering Colors — Hex codes for the 216 colors that will render the same on any screen.
  • Web Album Generator- Web Album Generator is a software program that creates all the HTML, JPEG thumbnails, and CSS for your online photo albums—all you need is your digital pictures!

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Find an Ohio County

You can find ANY Ohio county easily by using http://[county].ohgenweb.org and inserting the name of the county you wish to visit.

Special Projects

OHGenWeb Links

For Researchers

For Volunteers

OHGenWeb State Coordinator

Maggie Stewart Zimmerman

OHGenWeb Assistant Coordinator

Mary Ann Hetrick