Ah yes, correct. I see now they don't allow that anymore. -Clint God Bless, Clint Hamilton, Owner www.OrpheusComputing.com www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern" >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 > > > ----- 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). ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . 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