Re: [PCWorks] GeoCities is closing; transferring a website
- From: "Vern" <r60slash5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:26:37 -0700
>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.
I don't believe Geocities allows FTP access on the free accounts.
Vern
>
> 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).
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