Re: [PCWorks] GeoCities is closing; transfering a website
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:47:15 -0500
A few things Harold in addition to what Hugh said.
http://doteasy.com/ and
http://www.freeiquotes.com/free-professional-web-hosting.html
(http://www.000webhost.com/) have free bannerless hosting. I'm
not familiar with the latter, and I'd be a bit suspect of them
because of the looks of their webpage ("Infos" like plural makes
sense, the nav menu is jumbled up, and all links on it go to
000webhost.com homepage).
What Hugh means by "absolute" is in the code using
"http://www.geocities.com/buddychai2/SenatorVotes.html"; instead
of "/SenatorVotes.html" which is call "relative". It's easiest
to use relative links because you never have to change them,
unless of course you change the path of any of them. XP's
Notepad has a find/replace option, I use that feature in Metapad
quite a lot. But they are only limited to one line. If you have
to do a lot of find/replace with long lines or large blocks of
code, you'll need a program for that. I use "Find and Replace"
but they've disappeared.
How this would work would be (using Metapad as an example):
Find what: "http://www.geocities.com/buddychai2/";
Replace with: /
That way in one click all absolute links would be made to
relative links. Of course you don't want to do this for outgoing
links that go to other websites, those will of course have to
remain absolute.
You'll need to get a domain name. You can register a domain name
at Doteasy I mentioned above, if you want it hosted by them
because it's cheaper than transferring a domain over to them.
Their rates may have changed, but it used to be $35 one-time fee
if you're transferring to them, and $18 one-time fee if
registered through them, but $18 yearly domain renewal fee. But
I think the best thing to still do is getting the name from
GoDaddy (.99 thru about $9.95 depending on what coupons you use
and what "packages" you order), and it would be about $8.95 per
year for the domain name renewal.
If you want to keep using something like JavaScript, you'll have
to download that and save it. But I would guess most of it if
not all is for the Yahoo/GeoCities ad garbage. Looking at your
code, the first JS file is
http://www.geocities.com/js_source/pu5geo.js and that's ad
garbage. So those types you would not want, or need. You also
have to do this with CSS (style sheets). Looking at your code,
odd the first one doesn't seem to exist
http://themis.geocities.yahoo.com/jsoff.css but the second one
does http://us.geocities.com/js_source/div.css so you'll have to
download all of those and upload them to the new server if you
want to continue to use them. Like JS, the CSS files can be for
fonts, page layouts, etc. So if you don't use them the pages
will not look the same. They can also be for some ads, so you
need to look at each one to determine that.
Regarding "its" and "it's", I guess Hugh is referring to "it gets
a line all by it's lonesome", which is the only error of such I
saw on the page. While the apostrophe usually denotes possessive
(contractions not withstanding), and it would make since that
"it's" should be used since it is being used a possessive in that
context, "it's" is not used that way. It's (hee hee), the
opposite. The way to remember this is if "it is" makes sense in
the sentence, then "it's" can be used. So since that doesn't
make sense in your sentence above, "its" should be used.
-Clint
God Bless,
Clint Hamilton, Owner
www.OrpheusComputing.com
www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
Hmmm...
The pictures are simple-Rt-Click, save as. Keep them all in the
same folder.
All your links are
absolute:'http://www.geocities.com/buddychai2/SenatorVotes.html";
They will have to be changed, but most editors can do this with
"Find/replace".
Remove the <javascript> tags and anything else "added by server".
If you happened to want to change the background, and learn the
difference between "it's" and "its", I know a guy who can help.
It's possible someone will come along with a wholesale moving
scheme, so
keep your ears open.
Go Daddy has good prices for web space.
Harold B. wrote:
Hello again ... By the end of the year, GeoCities will be ending
their service in providing webspace to the public; they will be
giving more information about this during the summer. Now I have
a huge website with them ...
http://www.geocities.com/buddychai/Navigator.html ... which I
originally started if only to learn what goes on behind a webpage
that makes a webpage look like a webpage (it grew like Topsy
whoever he/she is). So now I know some html coding and that's
about it. But the site is there and would like to keep in on the
internet (maybe only a matter of "hey, this is my work" or it's
like bringing up a baby; you bond with it).
All the pages are backed up in coded form on MS Word documents. I
do not have the pictures backed up of which there are many (see
Old Brooklyn, Current Brighton Beach, Magic, Optical Illusions,
etc). I know very little about using Notepad for backing up pages
other than putting text in Notepad and saving it in HTML. I built
the site using the GeoCities editor and typing all the necessary
text and coding in it (or copy/pasting from one of my pages to
another the basics). I know nothing about FTP except what the
letters stand for; in other words, I've never used it.
So the question is ... How can I make the easiest transfer of the
website from GeoCities to another webspace provider? --- Harold
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