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One source of frustration for promoting my TNG templates and mods is that I've never had a place to demonstrate them, for gathering together feature information, or for providing guides on installation and use. Now I've solved that problem. I've owned the domain eGenea.com for many years, and now that domain serves as a portal for all my TNG-related work. I'm planning on adding a lot in the coming weeks, but in the short term the most interesting part is the live demonstrations, with fully functional databases, of my four 'drop-in' TNG templates--much better than checking my templates out on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy where I'm limited to one template at a time. As I add templates, guides, and mods, I'll update the site and announce the changes here. Keep an eye out for a comprehensive installation and usage guide for Citation Master which I developed a few years ago but never published. The site itself is supported by WordPress. The TNG template demonstration sites run on TNG 15.0.4 and use a sample database that used to be provided with Reunion for macOS. - Bill Herndon eGenea Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

The 4th release of the templates NearDark2 and NearDawn2 are now available for TNG 15.0 and later. I can read about the updated look-and-feel, new mobile support, responsive design, and other features in this article. (Click for a larger preview.) The v3 templates are only compatible with TNG 15.0 and later due to updates in how TNG's mobile mode is handled. If you want to see one of these templates in action, either NearDark2, NearDawn2, DayLight or NightLight (depending on my mood ) is active on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. Below are some screenshots of how the new floating nav bar and mobile mode look when active (for NightLight and DayLight but NearDark2 and NearDawn2 are similar). You can download the .zip packages here or from the TNG Wiki: NearDark2 v15.0.0.3 NearDawn2 v15.0.0.3 Remember that these templates need the eGenea Support Mod for loading language strings and the Template Manager for loading the template configuration. Bill Herndon

The 4th release of the templates DayLight, and NightLight are now available for TNG 15.0 and later. Although cosmetically v15.0.0.3 doesn't change much--the look-and-feel is largely the same--there are some big changes under the covers, and some cool new features for your site. I've spent a lot of time improving the mobile layout and finally (after a lot of trial and error) solved the issue of presenting the navigation bar on TNG detail pages. (Click for a larger preview.): Here are the new and updated features: All of the table-based formatting has been removed in favor of flex and grid boxes (a much more modern coding standard). What this means is the templates respond much better to changes in the browser's width, scaling and repositioning seamlessly and automatically. The right-side navigation bar can now be revealed on a TNG detail page (such as getperson.php or browsesources.php). Look for the hamburger icon that appears in the content section when you switch to a detail page. This even works on mobile devices where it's important not to clutter the content sections with the navigation bar. Responsive design for mobile is greatly improved, and I've even managed to integrate my mobile upgrades with the TNG mobile mode. This is important because TNG's mobile mode makes changes to the content sections of pages, reducing the size of diagrams and tables to accommodate mobile devices. I've added some new icons that are more indicative of what they do. There's now a "scroll-to-the-top" icon in the footer. I'm now going to go back and make the similar updates to NearDark2 and NearDawn2. Unfortunately, due to a number of changes in how TNG processes headers and footers, I cannot port these new templates to TNG 14. So the v3 templates are only compatible with TNG 15.0 and later. If you want to see these templates in action, either DayLight or NightLight (depending on my mood ) is active on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. Below are some screenshots of how the new template looks at 'mobile' size and with the floating nav bar visible. You can download the .zip packages here or from the TNG Wiki: DayLight v15.0.0.3 NightLight v15.0.0.3 Remember that these templates need the eGenea Support Mod for loading language strings and the Template Manager for loading the template configuration. Bill Herndon

After having been away for awhile I am back at it so updated to version 15 today. All seems to be going well expect for 2 small issues. #1: There is a white space in the menu bar that looks like something should be there? Where would I locate that? I am using Template #13. #2: For the main index page of the family tree, on my pc the photo strip is knocked down a line and just looks awful. Now if I change my browser to view at 90% it looks the way it should and how it looks on my other pc at 100%. Can someone suggest a fix for this?

Please go to Ancestrees.com to see my problem. Underneath the photo of a statue of Pocahontas, I have entered 3 out of 4 highlighted ancestors, but I can't seem to get the picture for Charity Wright Cook to come in. I've saved the photo I want to use of her under charity.jpeg and charity wright.jpg. No matter which I try to bring up on Template 21, it gives me this error. Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. This is the photo I want to bring in. I have photos under both names loaded in my media files online. I can attach them to her profile on her record easily but not to the template. Thanks so much for your assistance.

See screen capture below. Performed what I thought was just minor editing in the Feature Links and Feature Paragraph this am. Actually went into General Settings to select a default tree. Looked at several other settings but to my knowledge did not alter anything else. After logging out was when I noticed. It carried me to a login screen instead of the url of our public site, I clicked on "public" something link at the bottom of this login page and noticed the duplicate "welcome area" at the right of the page. Would appreciate any help in resolving. Site: https://pierrechastain.com/PCFA_2023/TNG/index.php Version: 13.0.4 Jim

I am using the extrapgtemplate.php to create articles using Template 15. Is there a way to direct a visitor to the login screen if they click on a photo or an article prior to logging into the site? If they use the menu items it automatically directs them to the login screen. But clicking on a photo or article linked to the extrapg template it throws a 404 error if you are not logged in. I have identified the area in the index.php that seem to do this for menu items but I am unable to figure the syntax I would use or even if this is where I should make the alteration if it is possible The site url is www.dirtroadsandfrontporches.com and I have linked to a sample article page using the extra page template on the large sample photo included in the template. It works fine when logged in but the error shows it is looking for login.php in the /articles/ folder. Thanks in advance for any help.

This is the third release of the templates NearDark2, NearDawn2, DayLight, and NightLight for TNG 14 and later. There is a single new feature: The list/menu in the Navigation pane now has a title that can be set and internationalized in template parameters. In addition, spacing issues between footer sections have been fixed, and font legibility has been improved in the administration pages. (Click any of the images for full-size previews): If you want to see these templates in action, one of the four is live on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. Bill Herndon

Dear Friends, I am afraid I will keep seeking your help until I set up all my site. Using template 21, The background in this template is of one color, and I would like to set a texture for it. I have a tile image but do not know how or where to add it. The image in question is attached

TNG 15.0.2 Template 2 Hello, folks, Back in February of this year when TNG 15.0 first came out, some users were able to help me reduce the font size on my TNG main page, by adding some code to my templates/template2/css/mytngstyle.css file. Thank you again, Philip & Rob. I find myself at this time needing to do the same to set specific font sizes in 3 different places on my TNG 15.0.2 site. Menu bar: If you look at THIS page, on the Menu Bar, note that the first 3 items (Home, Search & Login) are much larger than the next 3 items (Find, Media & Info) and the 2 items on the right side of the menu bar (Print & Bookmark): ...and with the Menubar Optimizer mod installed, note the menu items with the larger fonts too: I am hoping that someone can tell me what to add to my templates/template2/css/mytngstyle.css file, so that all the menu items are the same font size (I wish to have them all the same size as the Find, Media & Info items. Tabs: Next, on the same sample page above, note the somewhat-large size of the tabs (Individual, Ancestors, Maternal line, Paternal line, Descendants, Relationship, etc.): I am hoping that someone can also tell me what to add to my templates/template2/css/mytngstyle.css file, so that all those tabs on that line use a slightly-smaller font size. The line below that, with Personal Information, Sources, Event Map, etc., is perfect as-is. topmenu.php: Finally, on the same sample page above, note in the Top Menu the size of the fonts that display Home Page, What's New, Photos, Histories, Headstones, Reports & Surnames, and over on the right size of the bar, the text First Name & Last Name: Likewise, I am hoping that someone can also tell me what to add to my templates/template2/css/mytngstyle.css file, so that the text in white is slightly-smaller. After I get the font size smaller, I will removing the menu items in the middle, (Home Page, What's New, Photos, Histories, Headstones, Reports & Surnames), and adding the 2 radio buttons on the right (Birth & Married), so that my TNG 15.0.2 topmenu looks the same as my TNG 14.0.6 was: Thank you in advance & have yourselves a great day. Regards, John

It was a long time coming, but I've completed the 1st official releases of templates DayLight and NightLight for TNG 14 and later. These are entirely new templates built on a common framework that also supports templates NearDawn2 and NearDark2. In getting these to v14.0.0.1, I've fixed a number of issues with CSS in the administration and mod-manager pages and made a ton of improvements for mobile viewing. DayLight and NightLight have the same features as NearDark2 and NearDawn2 including: Contemporary style with larger, legible fonts, easily modified features and content sections, and removal of the problematic pull-down menus in favor of a footer section containing site links. Basic localization for Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), English (EN), French (FR), German (DE), Italian (IT), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (Brazilian) (BR), Spanish (ES), and Swedish (SV). (Many thanks to Jan Bos for his Dutch localization strings!) Full translation for Spanish has been included as an example. Mobile-ready An abbreviated site menu that behaves as I intend with [Home] [Search] [Logout/Edit - Login] being permanent elements--[Print] and [Bookmark] remain optional and are selected in TNG options. Footer features which are used for copyright statements, "Contact Us" and information statement sections, and can be managed entirely within the template parameters. Example feature sections are fully populated from the TNG database. Template parameter switches that control the visibility of items in the Navigation menu: 'Mother's Family', 'Father's Family', 'Maternal Ancestors', 'Paternal Ancestors'. A built-in system and demonstration for creating additional pages that have the look and feel of the homepage. (I use this for my Terms of Service page on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy.) Below are previews of the home page and an individual page for DayLight (click for larger images): ... and for NightLight: Installation instructions are available from the TNG Wiki as are the download links. Bill Herndon Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

TNG 15.0 Template 2 Hello, folks, One of the things that has changed in TNG 15, at least for Template 2, is the font size, which is now slightly larger. I personally do not like the larger font size, and wish to return to the font size used in TNG 14 and before. Is there a simple way that I can change the font size to a smaller size, possibly by simply adding some code to my template 2's mytngstyle.css and/or templatestyle.css ? I know absolutely nothing about CSS, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance & have yourselves a great weekend. Regards, John

Hello! I got some good advice here a while back about modifying templates.I want to customize my public page, nothing else. I will keep the index page in PHP, but HTML for new pages. I have managed to modify the index page to my liking, add content, delete obsolete variables and so on. But I can't figure out how to change the setup page (template 15). It is a bit untidy even if I get all the content on my index-page as a like it. I know how to remove/add text to the labels in the seup table, but not to change the table as such. In the 3 rows, for instance, - Tornedalen, blank, tatt ut av siden (meaning - removed from the site) below - I have managed to remove the labels, but not the rows as such - even if I have removed the variables from the index-page. I looked through all possible pages, but I just can't find it. I'm asking for the coding as such - only where I can find the code, governing these setup-tables.

Good day, I have TNG 14.0.2, Template 14, with modified colors and fonts. There is a multi-function box on the left side, below the heading, to log in or search names. What I'm trying to do is place a second box right below it to place links to pages and stories. I've been trying to find the exact insert point in the index.php file, with no success. Can anybody help? Thanks.

The second production release of templates NearDark2 and NearDawn2 for TNG 14 and later are available from the TNG Wiki. There are no new features for these templates, but a lot of work has been done to fix the CSS for administration and mod-manager pages, as well as a ton of work to enhance viewing on mobile devices. Features include: Contemporary style with large, legible fonts, easily modified features and content sections, and removal of the problematic pull-down menus in favor of a footer section containing site links. Basic localization for Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), English (EN), French (FR), German (DE), Italian (IT), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (BR), Spanish (ES), and Swedish (SV) is complete. (Many thanks to Jan Bos for his Dutch localization strings!) Full translation for Spanish has been included as an example. Mobile-ready An abbreviated site menu that behaves as I intend with [Home] [Search] [Logout/Edit - Login] being permanent elements--[Print] and [Bookmark] remain optional and are selected in TNG options. Footer features which are used for copyright statements, "Contact Us" and information statement sections, and can be managed entirely within template parameters. Feature sections are fully populated from the TNG database. Template parameter switches that control the visibility of items in the Navigation menu: 'Mother's Family', 'Father's Family', 'Maternal Ancestors', 'Paternal Ancestors'. A built-in system and demonstration for creating additional pages that have the look and feel of the homepage. (I use this for my Terms of Service page on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy.) Below are some previews of NearDark2 (click for full-size images): Here are some previews of NearDawn2 (click for full-size images): If you want to see these templates in action, one or the other is live on Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. The 1st production release of DayLight and NightLight, built on the same foundation, are also available from the TNG Wiki. Bill Herndon Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

I found NearDark2 interesting but trying to download I get this message. Greetings, Niels Access Denied You do not have permission to view this page. Please check your credentials and try again. Error Code: 403

In our earlier site we had the opportunity to code a default web link in the individual person page and add personal items to it as a search in another website we manage. I wonder if it is possible to do so in TNG. If, than please give a hint. Regards Ton van Steenoven

I am working on a modified theme on my wampserver to redo my people/family data. I copied my modified template from my live site that has the img captcha mod installed. It is not installed on my wamp server site, but I get this error in firefox's inspector: ERROR for site owner: Invalid domain for site key. It all points to styles_ltr.css, whatever, wherever that is. Anyone have a thought on this?

I just noticed it. As indicated in the heading, in the Sosa list... 1) the text in the heading bar is cut off 2) the list of people, Sosa number, generation number, etc., does not match the layout of the heading bar. Is this a bug for template 12??? Who can confirm this, too???

Hello everyone, Many years ago I added three fields with "today's" birthdays, marriages and deaths to my main page. I would like to add it again, but to be honest, I no longer know how I did it or/and which file I edited. (I use template 12) Can anyone help me with this?

Hi everyone, TLDR: How do I apply the style changes I made for my homepage to all other areas of my site? I'm a new TNG user (as of last week!). I have some knowledge of CSS and HTML so I've been making some stylistic changes to my homepage. I'm nearly finished editing my homepage's look and feel, and then I want to turn to the other pages. Here's my homepage: https://www.vangelder-robinson.family/ Here's an example page that has yet to be edited to align with my homepage style: https://www.vangelder-robinson.family/maint.php It looks like some of the changes I made for my homepage did transfer over to the other pages, but not sure what files I should be looking at to edit these other pages. Is it all within the template's folder, or should I be looking somewhere else? Or maybe I should've used the "mytngstyle" in the overall CSS folder and not the Template 17 folder? Thanks for any guidance you can provide!

When upgrading from TNG v14.0.3 to v14.0.4, the footer text for template 4 is no longer placed in the right position. Except for the front page, it's no longer on the bottom part of the page, but it's either behind images or partially visible behind the page-specific text in the main part of the page. Below is an illustration of how it looks at the places-page. The template works fine for v14.0.3. The only mod installed is OpenStreetMap. Switching to other templates like # 2, 5, 20, the text is in the footer text is in the right location. Does anyone have a fix? Thank you! Rgds, Tor

Not seeing that this issue has been raised by anyone else. Updated from 14.0.3 to 14.0.4 with Template 4 today and now finding that the “This site powered by…” footer is not appearing at the bottom of all pages. It’s positioned as it should be on the home page but on, for instance, the What’s New, Photos and Documents pages it appears further up the page over existing text. I’m aware the Version 14.0.4 included a Template 4 specific change (“header and footer were reworked to use DIVs instead of HTML tables”) and wonder if this is related? Any suggestions on how to fix the issue would be appreciated. Thank you. Bill

TNG 14.0.4 Template 2 Hello, folks, On the getperson page, is there a way that I can slightly widen the legend column on the left, so that a few of my wide legends don't wrap? A sample of where some of my legends currently wrap can be seen here (with the lower 2 legends): I am hoping that this can be widened in my template's templatestyle.css (or mytngstyle.css), so I won't need to repeat the widening after TNG upgrades. Thanks in advance & have yourselves a splendid day. Regards, John

I noticed a disappearing PDF button on person page Normaly there is a button PDF available. (Screenshot 1) But once tables is clicked the PDF link is disappearing (Screenshot 2) It only returns after leavin the decendants tab Anyone else having the same issue?