Creating Genealogical Webpage with Flowchart appearance

[nobody special]

I am trying to create a family tree consisting of boxes with transparent background, connected with arrow terminated lines. My
latest failure was based on having created a transparent *.gif image and arrows in Fireworks, and programming a border around
the *.gif image. I then attempted to insert links consisting of names into the boxes which when clicked takes the user to a page
with all known data for that individual.
I used CSS which I am just learning. I found it impossible to position the text links into the image boxes.

If someone would care to comment I am wondering what method might succeed to implement this.

Thanks in advance,
nobody special
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[phil_gg04]

Hi "nobody"

I wrote treefic.com, which does exactly this. Have a look at it. I
use absolute positioning to place each item of text and each line
[lines are empty DIVs with an appropriate background colour] where I
want it on the page to build up the tree. I can't give you the code,
but I'd be happy to try to answer any questions.

--Phil.

[johnSteve]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:08:59 -0500, "nobody special"
<ge*******@comcast.net> wrote:

I am trying to create a family tree snipIf someone would care to comment I am wondering what method might succeed to implement this.

Thanks in advance,
nobody special
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I combined strict html and valid css with a table to create this
depiction of 3 generations:

http://www.sturgood.com/dna/trace_demo.html

very flexible, and very expandable, but very labor intensive
class names are pretty self-explanatory, but css is here

http://www.sturgood.com/dna/css/tablestyle.css

play with it

johnSteve