No, and sort of, yes. No, in the sense that the site is built online, using WebsiteTonight templates and their server-side program(s). The "yes" part is not much, but you can copy any special html you have added, write down the color (hex) numbers of your text, and use this info to help speed your rebuild elsewhere . . ..
Add Comment No, and sort of, yes. No, in the sense that the site is built online, using Weebly templates and their server-side program(s). But you can use an archive copy (see Archiving Sites in Categories listing, below) of your site to aid in rebuilding another site.
After archiving your site, open the zip file and you will find a treasure trove of useful things: Uploads: click into the nested folders until you reach your files. Every thing that you ever uploaded to your site will be in here, in both its original form and any versions Weebly saved in an altered form. Most files will not have their original file names . . .. Most website builders offer swatch palettes with a rather garish selection of "web safe" colors. Weebly is no different, except, thankfully, they let you enter your own colors, too.
Since computer monitors are much more sophisticated than they were when that "web safe" distinction was made, you can choose other, more subtle colors for your site with confidence. The next thing is how to find the codes for the colors . . .. There are three places within the Weebly interface to change text colors: 1) under the DESIGN tab at the top of the page, where you decide the format of your SITE TITLE, PARAGRAPH TITLE, PARAGRAPH TEXT, and LINKS. Clicking on the color swatch will lead you to a swatch palette. Down at the bottom of the swatch palette, there's a white box where you can type in a hex code for a custom color. It must have a hashtag (#) followed by a code of six numbers and/or letters following it. For example, the hex code for black, is #000000, the yellow color used on this page is #CC9933. Type in your code and select OK. 2) Select any text within a text block, and click on the A with a red underline to select a swatch color or type in your own custom color. The method is the same as above. 3) for those familiar with CSS coding, under the DESIGN tab at the top of the page, there is a downward-facing tab on the far right labeled EDIT HTML/CSS. Clicking on that will take you to a split screen editor, where you will be able to change the site's CSS and see a preview of your changes before committing them with the SAVE button. Weebly is not great with the undos. I think it's their automatic save that is the culprit here. Usually that auto save is a very good thing — otherwise we'd be saving each little step in each little section, which could be positively crazy-fying.
Text: In the case of text, as long as you don't navigate out of the text section you are working in, you can often still press COMMAND-Z (Mac) or CONTROL-Z (PC) on your keyboard to undo what you've just done, just as if you were in a word processing program. But navigate that cursor out, and it's saved as-is. Deletes: In the case of deleting something you want back, that's where the "not great" comes in. It's deleted. The first thing I had to learn with Weebly was to slow down and try to be very present and zen-like, so I did less un-undo-able things. The other thing I learned was . . . |
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