Re: [PCWorks] GeoCities is closing; transferring a website
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:04:59 -0500
I don't know how "Backstreet Browser" (sounds like some kind of
p-0rn browser, hee hee), would actually work for what you need.
If you have a lot of pages and images, using an FTP program is
the simplest thing to do. I rarely need one, but when I do I use
WS_FTP.
After logging in to your site, you're presented with a left and
right side panes, where the left side is any folder on your HD
and the right side is your website directories. You can
highlight anything in the right pane area then just click to
transfer to your HD. It will maintain all the website's folders
or directories hierarchy. So you just do the reverse when
uploading to a new server.
-Clint
God Bless,
Clint Hamilton, Owner
www.OrpheusComputing.com
www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold B." <haroldbraun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PCWorks] GeoCities is closing; transferring a
website
Regarding your suggestions on transferring a website, it will
take me time
to read and understand them (and hopefully apply); I'm slow with
these
technologies. Vern even suggests downloading a new browser,
BackStreet
Browser, which claims to be a website downloader. Worst scenario
is that I
might just say bye-bye website; it was fun while it lasted. ---
Harold
> 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.
> From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" ... 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
................ Original Message...................
> 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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