Grab website code?

massahwahl

massahwahl

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Is there anyway I can borrow the code from a website? Heres what I am doing. I am good friends with the mayor-elect of our city and one of his goals was to redo the city website which sucks hard as of right now. I told him I was interested in doing it, and told him I would do a mock-up to present to him. Is there a way to get the current code off of the website so I can save some parts of it but expand upon other?

Also, what is a decent wage for doing this kind of work? If he likes my mock up and wants to buy the code off of me and have me maintain it, what does that run?
 
You could get all the files from the FTP folder.

As for the wage, if it's your first time, I've done websites for money, but again, I do it because I love to do it :P
 
Its hardly my first time, but ive never done it for a wage. I dont have access to the FTP folder yet either. Any other way? Or just start from scratch?
 
You could see if you are allowed to view the files.. or just grab the source and show him an idea with the main page. I know my GF charges $75 an hour to design the pages, the coding is a different story..
 
1) Install Linux, Unix, or OS X on a machine (OS X you need a mac)

2) In your package manager install wget (use fink commander in OS X to install wget)

3) Once you have wget installed perform the following command in the terminal

Code: 
wget -m http://domainname.com

That will mirror the whole site, code for code, and download it on your computer.

online man page:

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~bioskill/MAN/wget.html
 
Well the issue with this is that the person currently doing the website is, well, still doing the website. Bob Diebold (the mayor-elect) told me off the record that this guy was getting canned. So I cant ask to see the files because no one else knows that this dude is getting the axe. I think im just gonna do a mock up from scratch.
 
tlarkin said:
1) Install Linux, Unix, or OS X on a machine (OS X you need a mac)

2) In your package manager install wget (use fink commander in OS X to install wget)

3) Once you have wget installed perform the following command in the terminal

Code: 
wget -m http://domainname.com

That will mirror the whole site, code for code, and download it on your computer.

online man page:

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~bioskill/MAN/wget.html
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Awesome! Im gonna be installing ubuntu-studio in a day or so.
 
awesome! Any good website editors for linux to try? Also, can you tell me if the following programs are compatable with ubuntu:

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe Cool Edit 2.1
Cubase SX

For the website editor, Im used to Frontpage and a little Dreamweaver. So if any recomendations along those lines would be awesome.
 
ukulele_ninja said:
awesome! Any good website editors for linux to try? Also, can you tell me if the following programs are compatable with ubuntu:

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe Cool Edit 2.1
Cubase SX

For the website editor, Im used to Frontpage and a little Dreamweaver. So if any recomendations along those lines would be awesome.
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NVU, comparable to dream weaver, free open source
http://www.nvu.com/

As for adobe....they are kind of the industry standard, the GIMP is the closest thing to PhotoShop.
http://www.gimp.org/

The rest of the stuff you may want to google or post on the GIMP forums, I am sure there are tons of Linux design buffs
 
webbenji said:
I've been building websites for many years now and the best HTML editor i found was html-kit.

http://www.htmlkit.com/
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Im trying to learn some html, but its hard for me to follow sometimes because i am more a visual learner. So I cant visualize easily what im coding. If I do the site in frontpage, can I run the html through a program like this to clean it up?
 
ukulele_ninja said:
Well the issue with this is that the person currently doing the website is, well, still doing the website. Bob Diebold (the mayor-elect) told me off the record that this guy was getting canned. So I cant ask to see the files because no one else knows that this dude is getting the axe. I think im just gonna do a mock up from scratch.
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I dont mean to be silly or anything, but didn't you just tell everyone the current website designer for Newark Ohio is about to get canned.... you even names the mayor Bob Diebold....so you just announced in on the web. Hope he or any of his friends doesnt read this site!!

also if its this site
http://www.ci.newark.oh.us/
it looks pretty great as it it
and its using non static pages with asp so no amount of html grabbing is gonna get you the actual asp code, but you should be able to get the theme just using the static html
 
apj101 said:
I dont mean to be silly or anything, but didn't you just tell everyone the current website designer for Newark Ohio is about to get canned.... you even names the mayor Bob Diebold....so you just announced in on the web. Hope he or any of his friends doesnt read this site!!

also if its this site
http://www.ci.newark.oh.us/
it looks pretty great as it it
and its using non static pages with asp so no amount of html grabbing is gonna get you the actual asp code, but you should be able to get the theme just using the static html
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lol well damn your good.

Diebold is unhappy with the layout of the page and wants more information to be easily accesable on it. Thanks for the tips I'll try that and see what happens. I know the current webmaster edits in frontpage and used someone elses pre-made layout to maintain the site. Whoever set the site up is unknown these days according to Diebold.

Should I remove the names and such? I didnt even realize I messed up there..
 
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if you want code you don't need ubuntu:P right click every page and clcik view source, then paste in note pad or a site creator program.
 
shadowbt said:
if you want code you don't need ubuntu:P right click every page and clcik view source, then paste in note pad or a site creator program.
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lol, I literally just figured that out on the office computer. we have IE here and I have FF at home so I didnt even think to try IE. Thanks though!
 
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