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43 Sandvox sites tagged “history”

Dallas County Arkansas

Dallas County Arkansas

“I chose the design because it felt like something Old World like. Since genealogy deals with the past, I wanted something that would represent that.” — Jamila Barahona

Original Flutes

Original Flutes

“I liked this design because it was simple and didn't distract from my content, which is very visual in nature.” — Michael Lynn

Outwood Community Video

Outwood Community Video

“We have 600 hours of film and 7000 old photographs of oul local community that we want to share with the world.” — Outwood Community Video

Family and Friends of Dakota Uprising Victims

Family and Friends of Dakota Uprising Victims

“We collect many stories from the descendants and put them as PDFs that viewers can read. We added many photographs of victims' families, tombstones, victims' claims, plus historical narratives on the causes of the war. The pages we chose allowed us to display this information.” — Joyce A. Kloncz

New Brighton Area Historical Society

New Brighton Area Historical Society

“Most of the information was gleaned from the former iWeb site. It was easy to import information and photos, but also easy to add more information.” — Joyce A. Kloncz

The Transit Van Club

The Transit Van Club

“Started 10 years ago it has helped people locate and use the site for history and present day information about the Ford Transit.” — Peter Lee

Index to Maps

Index to Maps

“All of the content shown on my site was developed for six book volumes, which were developed in MS Word, converted to .pdf and easily imported to Sandvox. All of the cartographic images were also easily imported (drag & drop).” — Jim Siebold

Spotlighting Southeast Chicago

Spotlighting Southeast Chicago

“The website, begun new, has not had a lot of time to develop such anecdotes. However, on the day after its first post on the Internet, it gained this comment: "In one paragraph, you effortlessly move from Native Americans to farming, you are one amazing writer Kevin!"” — Kevin Murphy

Lovewellhistory

Lovewellhistory

“I like to reserve the scrapbook-like photo pages of the Telegraph Office theme for showcasing historical photographs, which invite closer inspection, and generally use the slideshow page for eye-pleasing contemporary photographs of historical sites. I'm always interested in knowing what kind of...” — Dale Switzer

The Upchurch Collection

The Upchurch Collection

“People have found friends and family by viewing my site. Often they supply further old photographs as a way of thanking the website. A good exchange!” — Michael Gunnill

Rellyseeker

Rellyseeker

“My website is about my family history research business. My site has my genealogy blog and has my own family's genealogy findings under the headings: BIGHAM-HORNER, POWELL-DIX, MAWHINNEY-DALTON, MARTIN-HARRIS, HECTOR-ALLEN and JOHNSON-GARNHAM.” — Jan Powell

Bill Lebovich

Bill Lebovich

“My website is intended to highlight the various types of photography I do, which range from 4"x5" black and white archival photography of historic buildings and structures to digital photography of modern architecture. I list my credentials as an architectural historian and author of books,...” — William Lebovich

Roseglen, North Dakota 58775

Roseglen, North Dakota 58775

“I believe that it is an attractive website, but I didn't use anything particularly clever or tricky to achieve it. This is pretty much what can be done with Sandvox.” — Michelle Anderson

Welcome to larryray.com

Welcome to larryray.com

“My Sandvox site was found by a French Cine Magazine publisher and researcher, Lionel Grenier, who interviewed me about my connection as actor and production manager on director, Lucio Fulci's 1980 classic film, "The Beyond," much of which was shot in New Orleans, LA. Lionel published the interview...” — Larry Ray

William de Lange

William de Lange

“It was love at first site when I saw the Hydrogen design. It is really beautiful. However, I also like some of the new designs Sandvox has released, so I might be considering an overhaul at some stage...” — William de Lange

Beaumont Family History

Beaumont Family History

“We have 5 books on the Beaumonts of Yorkshire England that cover various families and different areas the Beaumonts lived in and around.” — Michael Beaumont

Burgett Capital

Burgett Capital

“I think everyone should voice a point of view on politics, economics, history, society and culture. This is a step in a long-term transition out of the business world and into academia and publishing.” — B.L. Burgett

Mr. C's Web Site

Mr. C's Web Site

“Mine is a Web site for my high school classes. It features curricula for my 9th and 10th grade English classes, as well as U.S. history links for my Advanced Placement U.S. History class.” — Thomas Cambisios

The City

The City

“The design I chose appealed to me because it has a sort of moody elegance. It provides a good framework for text and pictures of urban scenes from around the world.” — Terry Grundy

Western Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies

Western Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies

“Several teachers have complemented us about the links provided on the website and also the monthly newsletter gets notes of appreciation.” — Leo West

Worshipful Company of Firefighters

Worshipful Company of Firefighters

“The site uses a number of PHP routines which are simply integrated through RAW HTML. This is great to make use of PHP and MySQL to change the look and feel of the page in a few lines of code, most of which can be found as examples on the net.” — Colin Simpson

Fotografia News

Fotografia News

“Prima usavo scrivere delle parti in javascript per personalizzare il sito..adesso, con Sandvox, non ne ho più bisogno. In ogni caso è davvero semplice integrare le parti in javascript/HTML in Sandvox.” — Ferrari Raffaello

Welcome to appendicitis.pro

Welcome to appendicitis.pro

“In researching this website I discovered the story of a Russian surgeon who removed his own appendix in antarctica. The story includes a wonderfully graphic picture of the surgeon operating on himself.” — Jeffrey Sedlack

Tom Seddon

Tom Seddon

“I chose the particular Sandvox design I am using because it is clean, simple, and easy to navigate by anyone and avoids extraneous "bells & whistles" just for their own sake.” — Thomas Seddon

G-159 Historical Research Museum

G-159 Historical Research Museum

“I have actually made a lot of new friends who correspond with me on a weekly basis. They have in turn, notified other past G1 pilots and mechanics who have stated it is about time this aircraft is represented properly.” — Robert Scott Morris

World Wide Vails

World Wide Vails

“I chose the design Clockwork Blue because it has a banner across the top and it's simple and uncluttered.” — Ginny Vail

South Island Papillon Club

South Island Papillon Club

“We used pares with and without sidebars, embedded you tube video, photo album, plain text, photo pages, facebook like, site map and lots of links between pages to keep people moving about and exploring the website.” — Rick Holcomb

Irish High Crosses

Irish High Crosses

“At this point in time I have kept my website design very basic. Photos and text have allowed me to share my study of Irish High Crosses without knowing much about website design or computer programing in general.” — Barney McLaughlin

Birman Cats Breeder

Birman Cats Breeder

“The name of my cattery is Du Laddak Doré. Doré means golden in French. So the design usin with the sun was appropriate to the content.” — Alain Lescart

Presbyterians on the Frontier

Presbyterians on the Frontier

“I did nothing particularly unusual. The main thing I did was to edit my photo that I wanted to use in the banner because Sandvox does not permit manipulating a photos inserted in a placeholder.” — Parrish Jones

Alresford Heritage Old Photographs

Alresford Heritage Old Photographs

“A collection of old photographs in and around the town of New Alresford in Hampshire, including the Streets, Roads, people and groups. Split into easily viewable sections containing thumbnails and larger images. Some of the sections include West Street, East Street, Broad Street, The Dean,bStation...” — Godfrey Andrews

Authentique Caserne

Authentique Caserne

“I tried the Sandvox free trial to get acquainted with the application. I was amazed at the way it performed easily for me. I went out and bought a licence to make the site more friendly for the users.” — Garey Côté

Sussex Castles

Sussex Castles

“I once had an email some student doing a project on castles. He had only found the site though google because we had both misspelt the name of a castle the same way!” — Richard Bird

Blackswans

Blackswans

“I adopted accordion and will be incorporating a tabbed presentation of data in due course. I will also be linking to external sites.” — Steve Evans

Travelling Light

Travelling Light

“Martin genealogy, Scotland, traveling,” — Ross Martin

Office  of the State Historian of Connecticut

Office of the State Historian of Connecticut

“I chose the Mimocity design because I wanted to create a newspaper like site suitable for my story teasers.” — Walter Woodward

Jenee's Tree

Jenee's Tree

“I've tried a couple of different designs, however I've come back to Simply Blue because it suits my site, is easy on the eyes and looks good. I get a lot of positive feedback from fellow researchers when they've been for a visit, easy to navigate seems to be the comment I get most.” — Jenee McCusker

Tower Hills

Tower Hills

“Tower HIlls is a website dedicated to the analysis of created worlds, using analysis of actual historical data and experience. It has as strong emphasis on economics, demography and related topics.” — Jeremy Baker

Ellingtonia

Ellingtonia

“It is one of only two that would provide what I needed. All the others restricted the width of the information that I needed to provide without wrapping. The only alternative was to use a smaller point size which would lead to illegibility. The other point that I like is the simplicity. Too many...” — Marcus Girvan

Sonant History - Your Story, in Your Voice

Sonant History - Your Story, in Your Voice

“My service is very personal, so I use examples from my family to illustrate the importance of capturing spoken stories. Sandvox makes it easy for me to update my audio messages and story samples.” — James Barkley

Medieval Studies and Anglo-Saxon England

Medieval Studies and Anglo-Saxon England

“I tend to use "sorted title lists" more than anything else, because they allow me to build a variety of sub-categories on any page. Sorted lists are esp. useful for building course pages, because you can link to various resources (i.e. dictionaries, links, readings, etc.) for any given course. It's...” — Patrick McBrine

Dana Hand

Dana Hand

“Our site is what designers call a brochure; it provides information in a compact form. For that reason, we chose the Neo-News design, but modified it with a banner and kept the page form tight, to fit on laptop screens. The design is flexible enough to allow us to add on future book and film...” — Dana Hand

Alistair Forrest - History's treasure brought to life

Alistair Forrest - History's treasure brought to life

“My first radio interview about my book was on Radio Europa Mediterraneo (REM FM) and the host of The Book Show had obviously browsed my website. The very first question she asked referred to an obscure book I wrote 25 years ago, which was mentioned somewhere on the site. So I was not only...” — Alistair Forrest