Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

Bob Hutchins in central Texas

>First, Howdy! And, welcome to the slippery slope.

Ellis has been kind enough to create CD archives of ALL of WoodCentral. There is currently a CD of the first 5 years of WoodCentral. Ellis will send you one free of charge for the donation of a mere $50. Think of how much you get from the expertise available to you here on the forum Mr. Walentine provides and the value of the CD archive and you'll agree, I'm sure, that this is a TRUE BARGAIN. PLUS, you'll be helping to defray the expenses that are necessary to keep WoodCentral alive and free.

Hope this helps,

BobH

Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

Dean Burke - Yakima, WA

>This is more a question for your web browser than WC. Mozilla saves a folder with all the page components (ShakerShelves_files) and a base page (ShakerShelves.html), which is what you open later. This is extremely handy, whether you later buy the CD or not.

Dean

PS George, great article. Thanks for posting it.

Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>If you save a page as HTML, then you only get the text and formatting, but not the pictures, because the JPG or GIF files are not embedded in the HTML code. Therefore, since the most valuable posts are often those that are illustrated, you would be better off saving those as a web archive. Your browser has an option to save pictures in the archive, which you should turn on for these. There is also an option to save links, and even to choose how deep to go (i.e., links to links to links, etc.) with the saved links. If you find the responses to a posting add value (which in many cases they do), then you should save links. You only need to save them one link deep, since all the posts related to the thread are listed on the first page of the thread. You will waste a lot less space if you turn off frames before saving the thread as an archive, otherwise, you will get all the threads for that forum for several days saved in the archive, which is extremely wasteful of bandwidth, WC server processing time and your own disk space.

Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>I see that you are computer literate as well as interested in hand tools. Where in Yakima are you located?JR

Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

Dean Burke - Yakima, WA

>Yes, I manage computer networks for smaller agribusinesses and some larger farms mostly nearer Moxee, which is just a very few miles from Yakima.

Dean

Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

Steve Kubien

>I'm only computer literate to the point of not being scared by them, so here is what I do....I 'copy' and 'paste' the entire page/article I want and save it in My Documents as a Word file. It's simple and seems to work for me. Besides, I tend to print off most articles or messages I want for reference and keep them in a good-ole-fashioned three-ring binder.

I wouldn't worry too much. This whole computer and internet thing is just a fad. They won't last. I predict they'll be gone before that other fad that won't die, the television.

Steve Kubien

Ajax, Ontario

Ditto.

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

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Re: Archiving The Great Articles on W.C.

GolfSteve in Calgary

>I've had better luck printing the web-page (or an entire web-site) in PDF format. When I say "print", I mean "print to file" - no paper is killed, just an electronic PDF file is generated.

The free PDF generators (eg. PDF995) will let you print a web-page in PDF format for later viewing. This works quite well for small documents or saving a page or two.

If you Buy Adobe Acrobat, the program will printout (to a PDF file) the page that you are on, and also follow any links and print those links. There was a great web-site on making guitars (Schramm guitars) that I saved in PDF format using this method. The document ended up being around 275 pages long, but I only had to hit print once then sit back and wait.

However, I don't tend to use this method very often. If there's an article that I want to save, I tend to print in out on paper and file the paper away.

Steven