Remember to back up whatever you do
Posted by bill in Internet Business Basics, tags: blog_template, config_files, google_search, html_output, movable_typeIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Whether it is your web templates, page or blog posts or even stuff that you are doing in Word make sure that you are always saving and backing up your files.
At work I always have a process of backing up any config files before I make a change in case I screw up or have to regress back to where I was before but in the past at home in my business I have not always been so careful and have spent 2 or3 hours at a time fixing a page of PHP code (Idon’t know PHP well) when I made a slight mistake in recoding, it would have been much easier if I had just copied into notepad++ before making those changes.
If you do screw up I can tell you how I went back tonight to fix my wifes scrapbooking blog. I used Google.
I saw there was some code that my wife deleted and instead of trying to guess what was there before I instead did a Google search for her page, found it and instead of going to the link I just went to the “cache” that was sitting right after the description. The cache feature for Google is a way to see a page instead of actually going to the site itself, all the cache is is a copy of the page during Googles last indexing of it.
After I went to the cached snapshot of the page I simply went to view source and I could see the source code of the page. One thing to be aware of though is that in a blog template you are setting global settings and the page that you get from Googles cache is actually the HTML output that Wordpress or Movable type presents to the viewers browser. At least this way you can get some clues as to how the page chould look after it is fixed.
Still it is much easier and safer just to do the copy of the template before screwing with it.
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