Yeah, but...! Re: Star Ranger's New Home?

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Dean Gundberg

Hmm... Looks like Dean's in mid-move.

Patience, Schoon.

The_Beast

> Hmm... Looks like Dean's in mid-move.

Yup, the conversion is in progress and I should have a good head of steam
going for the next week or two.

The website on the old address (http://star_ranger.homestead.com/)
should be available again tomorrow, the 5th when the new monthly bandwith
limit of 1 gig resets. Nothing much will change at that address until it is
gone at the end of the month so if you don't have to go there, please don't so
as to keep the bandwidth usage down. It would be nice to not max out a months
worth in 15 days again. All the good stuff will be back at the new site
eventually so please be patient.

I hope to have a shell of the site up by the end of the week and I'll give
you guys the first chance to take a look-see before it is available for
public viewing. I'll let you know where and when so stay tuned.

I take it that moving a website is more difficult that just copying the files?

(I don't have a website myself...only dabbled a bit with Netscape's HTML
editor...)

Donald Hosford

> Dean Gundberg wrote:

> > Hmm... Looks like Dean's in mid-move.
should be
> available again tomorrow, the 5th when the new monthly bandwith limit

Brian touched on several reasons why moving a site can be complicated. For me,
I had the site on a free host using their free Site Builder program. While
free and easy to use, this did cause some problems including some layout
limitations. Plus the html for those pages was far from efficient and easy to
read and it included such things as ads and frames that I didn't want on my
new pages and I didn't want to hunt all that code down in the HTML for each
page to get rid of it.

I am updating the whole look and format of the site while I have the chance
plus I'm using Frontpage to create the webpages. This all results in more of a
'conversion' of the pages instead of just moving the HTML files to the new
server.

Here is a page to look at as a preview:
http://www.star-ranger.com/SD3000.htm
Not all the links are working yet so don't try and get to another page from
there, just send any comments you have on the look, the layoutm, and how you
like it to me at this email address - dean@star-ranger.com

More pages to preview hopefully tomorrow.

Dean Gundberg

Starship Combat News The latest information on Space Games and Miniatures
http://star_ranger.homestead.com/
   Soon moving to http://www.star-ranger.com
New email: dean@star-ranger.com

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> I take it that moving a website is more difficult that just