How to Make a Backup of Community Pages
Introduction
Our community pages are stored on a computer at MSN Communities and in the case of a computer failure at MSN, your pages could be lost. That's why it's important for you to make backups of your pages yourself. You can easily back up your pages by using the Windows Notepad program to copy the HTML for each page into a text document that you save onto your computer. After you do a few pages, you'll find you can back up about two pages per minute.
Preparation
Use Windows Explorer to make a new folder in My Documents to hold the backup files. Name the folder something like "Communities Backup 1-14-02".
Open the Windows Notepad program.
Open your web browser.
Tile your web browser and Note on the screen so you can see them both at once. You make wish to change your display desktop setting to 1024x768 to get more room on the screen.
In the Web Browser
Sign in to your community as manager.
At the top of the NavBar on the left side of the screen, click on the first page.
Below the page name, click Edit This Page to open the communities editor.
Below the editing area, click "Use HTML to create your page".
In the HTML view, press Ctrl+A to select all of the HTML.
Press Ctrl+C to copy all of the HTML to the Windows clipboard.
In the Notepad Program
Switch to the Notepad program by clicking in the Notepad editing area.
Press Ctrl+V to paste the HTML into Notepad.
Select the File menu and choose Save.
Navigate to the backup folder you created earlier and make sure it appears in the Save In box.
Type a file name for the page you are saving and click the Save button.
Select the File menu and choose New to prepare for the next page.
Back in the Web Browser
Back in the web browser, repeat the process for each page in the NavBar. You may want to unhide hidden pages so you can back them up.
Backing Up the Graphics
For each page, right-click on each graphic and choose Save Picture As... to save each graphic into the backup folder in your computer.
Additional Information
Don't forget to back up the Welcome Message in the What's New page.
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