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Move old web page to new site

Jul 29, 2005 2:31PM PDT

I have had a web page published on Tripod for a few years. I used Front Page to create the page. I am now using XP Home. I guess my Front Page expired so I purchased a new site through Tripod, using their web tools. I would like to bring my old site to the new one. I can view the old one but I can't change or add to it. I have emailed Tripod for help about five times and they answer all my questions with the same answer. I have my old page linked thru my new page but I am wondering if the old page will be dropped from inactivity? Any suggestions or help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Dan

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Is it free?
Jul 29, 2005 2:39PM PDT

Basically is the first account that you had free? In that case Tripod will most likely delete it after about 30(not sure, 30 seems the general rule) days of inactivity.

What does Tripod say exactly when you message them?

If your up for it you can just go to your old site, the (If your using Internet Explorer) click on View and then Source from the menu at the top. Then copy the source and paste it wherever. Keep in mind that you also have to save a copy of every image. Yes it can be time consuming especially with a lot of images, but if you really like the old site, you might as well give it a try.

* IMPORTANT NOTE *
I don't know Tripods rules when it comes to server-side languages, but either way, you won't be able to get this part using the View Source method. If you are using a server-side language, theres no point in explaining why, but for those of you who don't use them, basically server side languages are passed to the main server which interprets the code (i.e. PHP or ASP etc.) and then passes it to the client's browser for final interpretation of the HTML.

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Front Page web
Jul 29, 2005 2:52PM PDT

Yep, its free.
Basically Tripod tells me "go ahead and move it". but they don't tell me how. I'm not too swift on working web pages. I had a system figured out on my old page for what I wanted. But moving this is apparently more than I know how to do. I have tried playing with it everyway I could think of but no success so far.

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Moving to new account?
Jul 30, 2005 2:20AM PDT

Sorry, Your trying to move the pages from your old account to your new one right? If that is the case, there should be a way that you can view the code from logging in to your account and then just copy and paste it somewhere else.

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Can you
Jul 30, 2005 2:28AM PDT

Can you click on View

Then click on source

then copy and paste the code to the new page?

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Front Page expired?
Aug 7, 2005 6:21PM PDT

I'm having trouble understanding your post. What do you mean Front Page expired? Front page is a program that resides on your computer. That doesn't expire. Is XP Home a web design program too? Why can't you access your old site? Switching programs shouldn't keep you from accessing your site. You would have to input the old site info into your new program tho. Unless Tripod closed your old account (and if you can view it it probably isn't closed) you should be able to use an ftp program like CuteFTP to download from your old site to your computer and then upload from your computer to your new site. Somewhere in each of your Tripod account pages you should be able to find the ftp address for your accounts.