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Here you will find frequently and maybe not so frequently asked questions about the website. If you have questions about anything on the Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery website, send an email to
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About the Website
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The Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery website uses the Joomla content management system (CMS). The Joomla software manages the obituaries, news articles, and the menus. It generates the HTML code and is managed through a menu-based system. The template used throughout the system is JS Jamba, freely available at JoomlaShack.
The photos are managed with a web-based system, Google's Picasa.
The Grave Search and Photo Search are a custom-written applications by the webmaster. They use the PHP language, XML calls and the MySQL database.
The host service is JustHost. JustHost provides the Linux server, Apache web server, MySQL database, Joomla and other free utilities through cPanel. We moved the website to JustHost in March 2011 and have experienced great customer support and better performance at a lower cost than our old provider. www.friendsofsilverbrook.org has been in operation since May 2007. |
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The dates displayed in the Grave Search follow the extended ISO 8601 format. Year-Month-Day (YYYY-MM-DD) makes it easy to sort by date if the date is treated like a string of characters. When we have just Year and Month, but no Day, the Day is represented by "00". If we have Year only, the Month and Day are represented by zeroes. Unknown dates can be either blank or "0000-00-00". The side effect of this standard is that unknown Month and Day will be sorted before January 1 of that year.
The first source for the Grave Search database was an Excel spreadsheet. Excel begins its dates in 1900. Full dates before 1900 were represented by text strings. Unknown month and days were sometimes represented by the first day of the month or of the year. Sometimes years were represented as a number.
We admit there were mistakes made in transcription and importing the records, which we are trying to correct by researching obituaries, tombstones and other records. If you see any errors, please write us at
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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's a way to read a lot of news stories quickly on the internet. You will see little orange squares at various pages on this website. The one here  gives you a feed to all the new articles on the front page of the website. The link can then be viewed in Internet Explorer "Favorites" under the tab "Feeds". Some email programs also have RSS news readers. As new stories are added, the your application is updated with the latest news titles. If you find an article of interest, click to read more. It's just another way to keep up with what's happening at Silverbrook Cemetery! |
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