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 . . ..
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 . . ..
Files>CSS/Theme: you'll find your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and and theme images nested within the FILES folder.
CSS info includes the text colors, sizes and weights, the background color, link colors, etc., which can save you some major rebuild time.
If you designed your own theme images and uploaded them, they're there for you to re-use. If you didn't, and you want to design your own in Photoshop, etc., you can use these (especially their dimensions) to figure out how to do that.
Html: double-click on the html file while you have your browser open and in the browser window you will see the page as it was at the time of archiving, which is a great help in rebuilding. If this doesn't work for you and you're really in love with the look and organization of your present site, be proactive and take screenshots of your pages to remind you how your site is arranged, for future reference.
You can also open the page files in Dreamweaver. You won't have Weebly's servers to recreate the page, you won't have rights to any template images* either, unless you substituted your own, but all the parts you created in the content area will be in place on an unformatted page. Image links may be broken, but easily restored. This may save time for building a new website.
*Some templates have been donated to Weebly by designers and will have their contact info in the source code. To find out if your template has this info, go to your published site online, right-click on the page and select VIEW SOURCE. For my fellow Mac users, control-click on the page and select VIEW PAGE SOURCE. If you are using Dreamweaver, check out the html code.
Text: to save your text, copy and paste the text from each page into a word processing document and save as "text only." It's easier to copy and paste from the site itself, or the html page displaying on your browser than it is to take it from the actual source code, which will retain all the extra formatting codes.
CSS info includes the text colors, sizes and weights, the background color, link colors, etc., which can save you some major rebuild time.
If you designed your own theme images and uploaded them, they're there for you to re-use. If you didn't, and you want to design your own in Photoshop, etc., you can use these (especially their dimensions) to figure out how to do that.
Html: double-click on the html file while you have your browser open and in the browser window you will see the page as it was at the time of archiving, which is a great help in rebuilding. If this doesn't work for you and you're really in love with the look and organization of your present site, be proactive and take screenshots of your pages to remind you how your site is arranged, for future reference.
You can also open the page files in Dreamweaver. You won't have Weebly's servers to recreate the page, you won't have rights to any template images* either, unless you substituted your own, but all the parts you created in the content area will be in place on an unformatted page. Image links may be broken, but easily restored. This may save time for building a new website.
*Some templates have been donated to Weebly by designers and will have their contact info in the source code. To find out if your template has this info, go to your published site online, right-click on the page and select VIEW SOURCE. For my fellow Mac users, control-click on the page and select VIEW PAGE SOURCE. If you are using Dreamweaver, check out the html code.
Text: to save your text, copy and paste the text from each page into a word processing document and save as "text only." It's easier to copy and paste from the site itself, or the html page displaying on your browser than it is to take it from the actual source code, which will retain all the extra formatting codes.
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