[FRIAM] scraping a web site

[Gary Schiltz]

As if Nick's head isn't already spinning from all the advice, one thing I
would mention is just how big a share of web access these days is via
mobile devices, i.e. smartphones and tablets. According to some
(reputable?) sources, glean from a single Google search, mobile use has
overtaken desktop use (desktop includes laptops). If true, then is a good
idea to design new web sites with this in mind, and use a platform that
supports "responsive" design, where the platform detects the capabilities
of the user's browser and formats pages accordingly. I haven't dug into
Nick's site yet, so I don't how amenable the pages are to formatting for a
four inch screen :-)

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Kirby eh? it was kind of quirk when I tried for what's worth.
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Barry.  Fabulous.  N
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
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>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Barry
>> MacKichan
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 04, 2017 12:07 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>> friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site
>>
>>
>>
>> Squarespace (https://www.squarespace.com) has a good reputation.
>>
>> If your site doesn’t require any code on the back end (and I would guess
>> it doesn’t, given its age) you could put it on Amazon S3, so you pay only
>> for the storage space (a few cents per gigabyte).
>>
>> --Barry
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3 Jan 2017, at 21:49, Nick Thompson wrote:
>>
>> Dear Phellow Phriammers,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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/
>>
>> }, 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 gradually Earthlink has withdrawn its support, and now I am not sure I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. …
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 .
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, as always .
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
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