[thelist] Advice on building a genealogy website
CosmicFawn
CosmicFawn at mystrealm.com
Sun Jul 6 15:34:30 CDT 2008
I'm attempting to build a family website including displaying a family
tree which I'd like to do in Flash. My problem is I'm not sure where to
begin. I'm going to need to be able to take information contained in a
GEDCOM file and display that information on the site as interactive
Flash. Similar to sites such as geni.com
I enjoy figuring this stuff out on my own and learning new techniques
but I'll admit in this instance I just don't even have a starting
point. I'm looking for advice on what languages I should be looking at
to do this in. You know, don't want to spend the next couple of months
learning something only to find out it doesn't lead me where I need to
go and end up having to start on a new one.
I've looked at XML but not sure if I can have 2 parents rather than just
1 and I don't want to have to manually update my flash every time I add
or change something in my tree. Any direction pointing is really
appreciated!
On a side note, I'm really glad I stumbled onto this site. I've learned
so much just reading all the articles. Great job!
Thanks, Rae
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