Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

Heya, smallweb!

This is an open post to talk about what you're working on, what you'd like to show off, cool resources, things that maybe aren't working so well, etc.

Also please check out previous posts to see what people are up to or if you might be able to help someone out.

Comments

[starfleetbrat]

Sounds like you've already done it, but info for anyone else that needs it:

you can preserve sites on the wayback machine. There's a "save page" section on the front page, you can enter a url and it will save a copy. You need to do it for every page of your site though. And you can repeat it every time you change your site so it can act as a history of your site.

https://web.archive.org
https://help.archive.org/help/save-pages-in-the-wayback-machine/

[kalloway]

I wish! I've just been dragging the same files around for nearly three decades. (But there does seem to be an incomplete backup on the Wayback Machine, which is enough. Mostly what I need is story titles so I can match them with files, and the listings I need are there.)

[aikoto]

Another tip, when saving webpages with it, I recomment having an Internet Archive account!
With it, on the Save page you can check "Save outlinks", which as the name suggests, also saves any page that is linkedino the one you're archiving.

So for example, if you archive an index, it will save the pages linked in sidebar too. Or for a blog, when archiving page 4 it will save pages 3 and 5 as well.
I like to archive old fan websites and it has been a time and lifesaver.