Geoff Wicks wrote, On 8/02/09 20:03:
The Just Words! website is due to close in a weeks time.
The site host, Lycos, is cutting out all unprofitable activities, and although
they promised site hosting would remain until at least the end of March they
have now brought the closure forward to 15th February.
I have been investigating alternative hosts with the intention of making the
site a little more professional and until this weekend was intending to
relaunch the site as soon as possible. I am now having serious second thoughts
and may keep the site permanently closed.
Rewriting the site for a new host will be a time consuming task given the numerous links that have to be changed and I have to consider whether the usage of the site - 9 people per week - justifies this time investment.
QL activities take up much of my time that could be devoted to other things. In particular I have a number of family history projects that are on permanent hold. I have still not kept a promise to a niece that I made 3 years ago.
It is very tempting to abandon the QL to be able to spend more time on family
history. The last time I wrote anything for one of the family history magazines
I was paid generously for my work. The article produced a large number of
reactions including one from a distant relative I had never heard of before and
who had masses of family photos. In return she got a mass of detail from me
that peviously she had known nothing about. The QL prevents from doing more
work like this.
If you want something from the Just Words! website, download it in the next 7
days,
You would be very welcome to host it on my server - for free.
Pity you have not used relative links though.
It should be a simple job to run a script to change the links. If you
have say 'http://oldisp/your_directory/<local_link>' then removal of the
absolute link is dead easy. I can do that for you. All links would be
from the root of the site, but that is not a problem.
I did it recently for my school old boys soc, and had no problems.
I can also offer most script languages, including php with admin via
phpadmin web interface.
Best to buy a domain - justwords.org.uk is available and costs about £3
a year. You could then use that domain also as an email address.
DNS can then point to the *real* site transparently.
Tony
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