You may have noticed a profound silence from me recently.

Unfortunately I got a Trojan Horse Virus into my computer, despite almost daily updating my antivirus.

I didn't have a CD rewrite so sadly apart from a few bits and pieces have lost the last three years of data from my machine.

As you may know I have a website up there in cyberspace.

I created it using Serif Webplus 6 a webpublishing program that is a wysuwig type of program.  You create pages in the program and they are then published to web in htm/html.

My problem of course is I now no longer have any of the pages in the program used to create them.

does anyone know how I can get my published pages copied into a program so that I can eidt them and republish as and when necessary.

In other words what I want to do is reverse the publising process!!!

Otherwise it will mean creating my webiste completely from scratch again.  I have a lot of links in my pedigrees to photos etc, and this would take an awful long time to do!

When you uploaded your web pages to your web site you would presumably have used an ftp client to do so ?

Using the same client you should be able to download all the information on your website to your computer.

I have a web building programme installed on the PC ( Dreamweaver) and when I had to get a new PC recently just connected to the sites and downloaded straight to the PC.
Just bring the hole lot down, images and all and you should be OK

Ingrid

Bringing it down as files and webpages, or HTML code is not a problem, but how do0 I put it back into the program I used or another, so that it looks like the pages I used to create the webpages, so that I can edit it????

Christine told me how to save the HTML version by doing View and Source, but I don't want to or know how to work with HTML to edit my site.

Ahh, you need to get hold of an HTML editor package such as Dreamweaver then, there are loads about to choose from. Actually some versions of Windows have one built in called Front Page Express.

Most are WYSIWYG and once you have this you should be able to see your web pages and edit or create new ones as you want. :)

I have an excellent easy to use one called Serif Webplus 6, but my problem is as I lost the saved pages in this program, I don't jnow how, or if it is possible to copy my webpages back into this format, doesn't seem to be an option to reverse the publishing process.

Looks like I will just have to do the pages agfain one by one, using the ones on the web to remind me what was on them, and to copy and paste the text and pictures.

I was hoping for a simpler less time consuming way, as there are over 20 pages!

Hi B

Did you get the email I sent to you the other day giving a couple of options?

If you have saved your webpages somewhere on your computer can you not open them from that location using Serif Webplus 6 maybe something like file/open ?

If you click view then source on the top bar, you should get all the page codes, which you can the copy and paste into your web programme, it won't have the pictures but you can add them in to the blank spaces.

Ingrid

Christine suggested that, but my program doesn't work with HTML code but normal text.  If you need to use HTML fragments it will put one in for you in a box and shows as a graphic until you publish it

I could do this, but it wouldn;t help me edit the pages, as I have no idea how to work with HTML

I did have the pages saved, but lost all my files when I had to reformatt the hardrive afteer getting a virus, as no other solution would make my computer well.  Unfort6unately I didn;t have any back ups, as most of the pages would not fit on floppy disks.

Mmm my programme works in both, so you paste the code then change the view, so you can work either way.
Mind you've I've just been caught out a treat, I've recently had to get a new PC that is running on XP Pro and it automatically uploads pages when you save them if you are on line !!!!!!
So whilst editing and playing I've just lost all my previous pages.

Ingrid

Which program do you use, I might be better off using a different program to edit the pages as they are now on the net, than the program that creatd them?

I wonder if someone with Dreamweaver etc would be able to save the code for you and then send it to you in htm format?

Helen

Hi Brainless

I have just found an even easier way and emailed it to you - please let us know if it works

No it didn't work :(  Which program did it work for you in?  And did you use one of my pages to try it?

I use Dreamweaver MX, you can view in either WYSIWYG or script etc., so easy to change between views depending of what you are working on.
I've copy and pasted the code for your page into Dreamweaver and it came up but without the pictures.
I'd be more the happy to do that and e-mail it to you if it helps.

Ingrid