HTML help

March 29, 2006 6:10 AM

I use Yahoo Sitebuilder for my wife's site, but I also used it to build a small satire site which I want to post via FTP. How does a tech challenged crustacean turn the Sitebuilder code into regular html?

Is it even possible? I certainly hope so, or two weeks of work is down the drain. My wife's site is in my profile, if you want to see what I mean.
Thanks in advance.

posted by lobstah to computers & internet (8 comments total)

I don't know much about Sitebuilder, but save the HTML from your browser?
posted by scottreynen at 6:31 AM on March 29, 2006

If you want to see the HTML; go to your page on the web, then in the browser View- Page Source. If you want to copy it then - the select all copy- then paste into a regular HTML editor or text editor. I am guessing that you somehow what to copy the whole website to your PC, play with this or hunt for other website copier /ripper
posted by priorpark17 at 7:06 AM on March 29, 2006

in firefox hit CTRL+U, then hit CTRL+A, then CTRL+C

That will put a web pages source code into the clipboard. Just paste that into notepad and save it as an HTML file.
posted by delmoi at 7:40 AM on March 29, 2006

You'll need to upload all the images seperately, of course.
posted by delmoi at 7:41 AM on March 29, 2006

Depending on what you've done, you might also find that sitebuilder has allowed you to insert various bits of script that are hooked into source code that's on Yahoo's system, and which might stop working altogether if you export things to a different site. Just FYI, in case you find things aren't the same on the other site and wonder why.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:12 AM on March 29, 2006

I'll second Delmoi - I've just done a quick test and it seems to work well. You'll have to do that for each page but I suspect that it's a bit less daunting than the (excellent) HTTrack suggested by priorpark17. Come to think of it, I'd be happy to download the site and send the files to you, should you need that.

As for reworking the material for uploading to another site, you'll probably have to rework the image paths, e.g.

img src="sitebuilder/images/newhome1-444x452.jpg
to
img src="yoursite.com/images/fog01.jpg

It might be an idea to take the opportunity to put the images in either a simple folder called "images", or one folder for each category [fig, port, still, repro, etc.] and update the links in the html to correspond.

If the sitebuilder software has renamed all images when you've uploaded them in the past (e.g. newhome1-444x452.jpg), again it may be a good time to create a simpler naming structure for these images before uploading.

I'm horribly busy and there are better qualified folk out there but there's an email address in my profile, feel free to shout if you get stuck. Or of course post back here, I'll bookmark this question and keep checking back.

Good luck and p.s. I love her work!
posted by ceri richard at 9:59 AM on March 29, 2006

Thanks for all the answers...I marked them all BEST ! I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out, short of rebuilding the mini site by hand in my old Dreamweaver 2.0. The thing is, it was for a contest...where they will rehost the mini site (11 pages), but the yahoo code is too funky, and I didn't want to screw up my wife's site, where I had it parked. That HTTrack was kinda cool, but the learning curve was a little too steep for me...I'm an old fart. :) thanks again...and ceri, I'll tell Judy you like her work, she LOVES compliments !
posted by lobstah at 10:30 AM on March 29, 2006

It makes my day to see that shading on an answer :-)

lobstah, do you have a deadline for the contest?
posted by ceri richard at 12:11 PM on March 29, 2006