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Sitesucker alternativees5/16/2023 Illness Name | path/to/illness-0004-b.jpg | path/to/illness-0004-b.jpg | Description text Illness Name | path/to/illness-0003-a.jpg | path/to/illness-0003-b.jpg | Description text Illness Name | path/to/illness-0002-b.jpg | path/to/illness-0002-b.jpg | Description text Illness Name | path/to/illness-0001-a.jpg | path/to/illness-0001-b.jpg | Description text Name and number all the images sequentially, so they are in their matched pairs like this:Ĭreate a CSV file that stores all this data in a simple format like this:.I am sure others might chime-in with some of their own thoughts. I have built websites with concrete5 in the past, that have been able to handle several thousand products and combinations, without breaking a sweat.Ī couple of ideas for you to consider. concrete5 does a great job of enabling site-wide searches and building navigation lists that can easily sorted into alphabetical order. Because the website would be database / dynamically built. If items did need to be on their own pages (so you have 1,750 webpages) I would consider building the website with concrete5. He or she would like you, if the same data did not have to be re-entered twice! You mention already having a server admin to take things further forward after RapidWeaver. If we started building something now in a primitive CSV database / table format, potentially what you build interim for RapidWeaver could be imported into an SQL Database later-on. That would save the potential problems of RapidWeaver needing to generate 1,750 webpages - which I am doubtful it could manage. What if instead of 1,750 webpages, you had some-sort of custom stack that would let you feed-in the data / pictures for each item and display it as a lightbox? Not difficult to use some jQuery Javascript to filter / sort lists and display a lightbox. After that, things can get crashy and just very sloooooooow… There is no ‘red line’, but RapidWeaver tends to choke at about the 500 page mark. SiteSucker is great at what it does though, and a valuable tool for any web designer to own.Īssuming these are 1,750 webpages - each one with two screenshots and some text, this is possibly getting too much for RapidWeaver to handle. Free alternatives possibly exist, if you don’t have the money to spend on it right now. Then you always have a copy nobody else can trash. Assuming that the website is still online and working. Short-term, use SiteSucker to clone the whole website and preserve the links. Many of the people on this forum are true experts and will help you and your client get through this disaster. But he’s not familiar with RW, or even Mac.įirstly, don’t panic! There possibly are some viable options available to you. I imagine that some server database wrangling may be involved, and our technical admin can handle that. So, is what we propose possible? I’ve used Foundation for the site, but I also have Foundry. We’re having our own software written currently which will be streets ahead of the Chinese stuff, but we need to support ill people in the meantime, and to send a message to the authors that westerners are not as dumb or as helpless as they apparently believe. So no file import ever takes place, and the authors cannot prevent users from building their own files since this is a major purpose of the application. Users then open the compromised software and manually enter our screenshot settings into it, plus paste the text info, then save their newly built file. We build an alphabetized list of 1,750 files - click on an A-Z letter to display a list of files that begin with it, or enter an illness or pathogen name into a search field to display all related files.Ĭlicking a file name opens a window or new page which displays the two screenshots one at a time as Facebook does with an image series - plus a scrollable text window that can be copied and pasted from. This involved recruiting a task-force of users to make two interface screenshots and a copy-and-paste text file for each of our 1,750 files. Since we work in the area of health, and the Chinese authors see us as unwanted competition in their bid for global control of our area of expertise, we had to quickly devise a way to get our work into their new software. Hi friends - I was just about to relaunch my revamped non-profit site when the free software we recommend to our clients was recoded to deliberately corrupt our files on loading and prevent them from working.
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