Pedigree Software for the New Millenium

* Cross Platform * PC * MAC * LINUX/UNIX * Amiga *
* Not Copy Protected *
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Release Date WebPed Sitemaker 1.0 available for Linux, OS10 Macs and Amigas NOW, July 2002, WebPed Sitemaker will also run on Wintel systems which have PERL installed. PERL is available at no charge from the CPAN.org site.

This link takes you to samples of and interlinked set of WebPed generated pedigrees.
All the pedigrees in this set were generated by a choosing a single record in a WebPed database.

WebPed will exist in two varieties:

1. WebPed On the Net.
   
   
   • A Website which houses a pedigree data base and delivers pedigrees to visitors at your website.
     
   • Also available as an installable CGI script for your own website.
      
2. WebPed at Home.
   
   
   • WebPed SiteMaker. Reads a pedigree database. Outputs pedigrees and other reports. It can generate a complete site with appropriate index files and links. For an example use this link to the Debbie Littleton Memorial Greyhound Pedigree Database. The entire set of pedigrees and indices were generated by WebPed with a single command.
     This capability can be used in conjunction with a CDROM to allow clubs to publish "Year CD's" or breeders to produce "Kennel/Cattery/Farm/Herd CD's". Owners of WebPed professional are granted a redistribution license so that they can use this product in their own publications.
   • AVAILABLE: WebPed Sitemaker Basic. Prints up pedigrees and animal reports in a variety of formats.
   • WebPed Professional. Additional Functions for the serious breeder.
   • WebPed Registry. This full featured program is powerful enough to run a breed registry.
     

WebPed is able to import pre-existing datafiles and to provide a clean export of datafiles with no hidden "protection" features. These exports can be made in a variety of formats including "comma deliminated" and tabbed text.

I started WebPed as a project to allow access to my Borzoi Database through the World Wide Web.

Although I had written a small pedigree management program in Basic over 18 years ago, I had abandoned that effort when I discovered that reasonably priced commerical pedigree programs were available. Much of my spare time subsequently, was spent building a large Borzoi database using one of these programs.

WebPed at Home was inspired by my fear of loosing the use of my 40,000 record dog database after the passing of the author of the pedigree program I used to manage the database.

In fact, had I not had the infamous "corrupt disk" error from that previous program in Nov of 1999 I would not have taken the interest in writing WebPed.

Because the Pedigree program market is highly competitive but not very lucrative, the major pedigree programs restrict the access to the USER GENERATED datafiles by various copy protection schemes, in effect trying to keep the user dedicated to the use of the program by holding the user's labor in creating their user's database as hostage. In some cases pedigree program authors seem to think they can copyright the databases created by the labor of their customers.

Projected Release Date WEBPED1.0 Late Spring 2001

WebPed will never hold your records hostage!
WebPed includes an export capability that allows export of your records in a comma deliminated format.

I decided to write WebPed in a cross platform language so that it could easily be ported to new operating systems and to reduce the chances of incompatibility with future OS releases. The core of WebPed runs equally well under Unix, Linux, DOS/WinTel, AmigaOS and MacOS.

As a serious and successful dog breeder, I have written WebPed to be a useful tool for the serious breeder. It is not my intention to hold a client base based on client inability to access their data with other programs.

Sample WebPed pedigrees:

1. Text, 4 generations.
2. Text, 5 generations.
3. HTML box format plain, 4 generations.
4. HTML box format, 5 generations, repeated ancestors color coded.
5. HTML box format, 6 generations, repeated ancestors color coded.
6. HTML individual animal report .