Second Site

Second Site
Information
Publisher / Author	John Cardinal
Version	4.2.2
Latest Update	April 16, 2012
Creation Date	2002
Operating System	Windows
License	Commercial
Category	Web Publishing
Languages	English
Prices	$29.95 - CD-Rom $9.95 - Upgrade
Links	Website Product Page FAQ

Description

Second Site is the best way to publish your TMG data in HTML format. It has more features and provides more control than any GEDCOM-based method. If you are serious about publishing your TMG data on the Web, or if you are sharing your data with family members on custom CDs, you need Second Site!

Second Site is also a great tool to review your dataset. It is fast, and the HTML format makes the data easy to browse. Many users have reported that it has helped them to find inconsistencies in their data and other problems.

Features

• Second Site creates custom web sites but requires no knowledge of HTML.
• Reads data directly from your TMG project: no GEDCOM data loss!
• Supports hundreds of site customization options, but you can create a great site in six easy steps.
• Second Site manages all the pages that make up a site, including optional custom pages that you create as well as pages it generates from your genealogy data.
• Second Site has multiple page Formats including narratives, grids, and others.
• Second Site uses Themes to control the look of the generated site, and comes with more than a dozen Themes you can use as-is or customize.
• Second Site uses Layouts to control page structure, and comes with more than 50 Layouts including various one-column, two-column, and three-column options.
• Second Site supports TMG sentence definitions.
• Second Site handles witnesses and roles, and provides options to include or exclude the names of witnesses, parents, children, and co-principals.
• Second Site creates pedigree, descendant, relationship, and timeline charts.
• Second Site creates special custom content like maps and calendars.
• Second Site includes TMG exhibit files when it builds pages, and supports image, text, audio, and video exhibits attached to people, events, sources, citations, and places. Image exhibits may have an image map.
• Second Site builds exhibit galleries, a list of thumbnail images for image exhibits with links to the full-size image
• Second Site supports TMG's citations and sources.
• Second Site recognizes web site references in source definitions and makes them clickable links.
• Second Site simplifies the process of publishing via CDs and includes support for automatically opening your site when the CD is inserted in a drive.
• Second Site includes support for international sites and TMG's alternate language sentences.
• Second Site understands TMG's formatting codes ([BOLD:], etc.).
• Second Site indexes all names.
• Second Site makes custom indexes based on criteria you specify; make a list of veterans, or immigrants, or any group of people who share a notable characteristic.
• Second Site will calculate relationships.
• Second Site respects TMG's exclusion markers.
• Second Site allows you to specify page sizes.
• Second Site encodes e-mail addresses to hide them from "e-mail address harvesters". Doing so protects your privacy as well as the privacy of your fellow researchers.
• Second Site uses CSS stylesheets and JavaScript to create professional looking pages. Stylesheet parameters are visible in the user interface so that users can customize the appearance of the pages without knowing CSS.

News & Version History

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