The independent company I work for is being acquired by a corporation. I’m told that the corporation is going to go to a Wordpress template for all 14 of their facilities. That means my work of the last 10 years will go bye-bye. I’d like to somehow put the existing site (which has worked very, very well for us) on a DVD or preserve it in some fashion for potential demonstration purposes with freelance clients, etc. How do I go about doing that before this change occurs?
ftp, all the files you or others have uploaded to the web or the site
local files, if you use compiled files, for example, flash has two files, the .fla you work with and the .swf you compile
database, if you use one, you need to export and download it. PhpMyAdmin has the utilility, if you access databse through it.
I think I dont forget any thing. Once you have all this you can burn a DVD to save your work, and if you want to upload it to another server, you can do it.
Your site doesnt seem to have program that requires a server, so you can show it from the disc directly.
You could try something like Sitesucker http://sitesucker.us to pull down all linked pages and files. And it’s free to try.
But, it has some short comings. Web sites with lots of javascript links or unusual html tags you will have a problem with. It won’t touch database content either, although it will bring in whatever is displayed on a page as long as there is a recognizable link.
Thank you for this. I was hoping there was a way to simply burn a copy to a disk that could “play like the real thing” on a DVD, even if it no longer existed on the server.
Maybe easier would be to go through the laborious process of taking screenshots of the pages?
I was hoping there was a way to simply burn a copy to a disk that could “play like the real thing” on a DVD
Easier than burn the files on a disc?
As far I saw in a quick view, and people here perhaps know other ways, because the know more than me, your site is html, with a quite simple structure that should work in local. You dont have a form or any that needs a server to work. And the images adresses are just there
ups. I saw your images are not relative adressed, so pages link them through the server. Then, perhaps you need some software to re-write all this links, or making by hand. Try the one Chuck says. I dont know no one.
Haven’t looked at your site…but how much of it is Freeway generated? A few times I’ve uploaded a file copy of a 100% Freeway created site to my desktop, burned the file to a disk, and was able to open the “published” html files in a web browser on an old windows machine. This method should work for any parts of the site that sit on your local machine.
If the site is entirely FW created then this will work. Or simply make a copy of the Site Folder and burn that to a Disc.
As long as you know that you need to start at the index.html file in the Site Folder on the Disc you will be GTG. This will not work if you are relying on drawing information from a Database on your server but as long as you have internet access then external links should work.