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I don’t know how I missed Zotero. Don’t get around enough I guess.
I said I wouldn’t harp on about Firefox anymore but I just hafta. As if there aren’t already enough reasons for switching browsers, here’s one more and this is the King of them all. You can’t possibly, as a self-respecting genealogist, not want to use Zotero. It’s impossible.
Zotero is a Mozilla extension for creating a library of your online research and source citations, to be used online or offline.
It’s a genealogist’s dream-machine. Go watch the video tour and video demo. Watch them both. It’ll only take a few minutes. Then come back and write me a thank-you (just kidding) and then Get Firefox (not kidding).
To use Zotero you will have to be using at least Firefox 2 (or Netscape or Flock). It will not work in Internet Explorer. After you have your Mozilla browser and Zotero installed, go back and watch the 14 other Zotero video tutorials.
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Boy I wish I shared your enthusiasm for Firefox but it’s nothing but a headache for me as a designer. I can design a page and preview it in IE 7.x and it looks great first time, every time. But when I preview in Firefox it’s a disaster that requires reworking and reworking and reworking.
As a user, I prefer Firefox. It’s my browser of choice. But as a web site designer, I HATE IT!
(Can you tell I have mixed feelings?
Well, you know, as my readers have heard, ad nauseam, my design headaches have been the other way around. Everything looks fine in Firefox, a train-wreck in IE. Some of that has been my fault, but not all of it. Something that takes 8 line spaces in Firefox will take 13 in IE and throw a whole page out of whack. I’d like to blow it up with dynamite!
Perhaps you refer to design CSS-style which I’ve seen over at Creative Gene having visited once or twice. I was thinking of going that way if I ever have time. Now having heard from you, perhaps not.
Anyway, don’t let all this put you off Zotero. Just get Firefox and do it.