[FRIAM] scraping a web site

[Nick Thompson]

Hi gil, 

 

A very kind offer.  I am a bit overwhelmed by all of this.  Didn’t expect such an array of info so fast, given how slow things have been in the past. 

 

I have to read through everything carefully and think what to do next. 

 

Take care, 

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 11:11 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

 

Nick yes it called giving me a call. I don't know how you set it up.  In short it's a very routine thing to do. Wit

I'd do it for you for free because I consider you a friend.

 

Thier's always some Oops when you do so. And it depends on how you, fam, and or friends set it up. I

 

-Wordpress (for example) now has some rocking tools specifically for moving between Weby Web  hosts.

 

-Basic HTML is pretty portable, But again it depends entirely on how you or a friend set it up.

 

If you can oldschool FTP to earthlink just download it. From experience it's a good idea to start the new web-host upload it, to make sure you didn't miss something. 

 

Robert Corginger hit the nail on the head. In simple speak Web-making-tools such as the OG DreamWeaver and Wordpress (as of 4.6) have a variety of tools to move it around. I swear by Database->Files Folder Plugins for wordpress for that reason. 

But needless to say you do have options. 

 

As to what host? That's a matter of taste and how much you want to play Admin.  Like I said to Steve. I LOVE to have Wordpress on Gilsplace.net just to keep up with trying out setting up  or keeping up a website.

 BUT for just a quick article or rave or geeking out?

Wordpress.com all theway. Wix and Weebly (however that's spelled) are a close tie though.

Because they just work. 

For what it's worth ipage.net <http://ipage.net>  AmazonCloud,  get rave reviews. namecheap in my experience isn't to bad. help is a totall crap shoot though.

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:28 AM, glen ep ropella <gepr at tempusdictum.com <mailto:gepr at tempusdictum.com> > wrote:


Hey Nick,

I went ahead and downloaded your page(s) and put it up here:

  http://agent-based-modeling.com/ntnd/nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html

Let me know if I've missed anything.  I'm happy to help move it wherever.

-glen

On 01/03/2017 08:49 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I am in the uncomfortable position of being bound by threads of steel to Earthlink.  Many, MANY, years I go I started a website on Earthlink, {http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
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> }, and put a lot of my writing, and some commentary up on it.  The website creation and editing medium (trellix) was pretty good for its time, and there are many ways that I find the site quite satisfying.  But gradually Earthlink has withdrawn its support, and now I am not sure I could get in to edit or change it.  Meantime, Research Gate has gotten started, and provides a somewhat better place to meet the world and archive my stuff.  And also, having the site on earthlink binds me to them and their 22 dollar a month fee.  So. …
>
>
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> I am wondering if there is a way (or a service that would) scrape the website and, possibly, dump it into a new and more reliable, more website creation medium?  Please, ambulatory knowledge only.  I don’t want a people doing deep searches to answer this  question .


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