Dear Jim, I entirely agree with your conclusions - I guess I have started a new thread by mentioning WorldGenWeb ;-). I agree especially that - despite all sorts of shortcomings of WGW - there is something to be learned by just looking at their pages. Just now you only wanted to start a discussion on availability of pages in German and English - for my Switzerland pages I have to add French and Italian, and there is a lot missing : there is no other way around this problem (in my case) than finding more individuals with the necessary language skills, willing to contribute; I am making slow progress there. The language best represented on the Swiss pages is undoubtedly English - so this shouldn't be a problem for our overseas friends ;-). I'll add my comments to other issues when the time comes. Best regards - Wolf

---------- Von: Jim Eggert[SMTP:EggertJ@LL.mit.edu] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 1998 19:38 An: genstaff-l@genealogy.net; webpages-l@genealogy.net Betreff: [webpages-l] Website design

There are several deleterious tendencies evident in many of the WorldGenweb sites that I think we have thus far successfully avoided in our German genealogy website: ....... I thus propose we attempt to restructure our web pages along these lines, with the first one replaced by:

a'. Universal page availability in German and English.

Discussion is invited.

-- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu