Upgrading website

[monkey44]

My wife has a go-daddy website for her art. It took her a lot of hours to build it, as neither one of us is very tech-savvy. She pays an annual fee to host there.

Go-daddy just sent her a notice that Go-daddy will no longer support her template (A older Go-daddy template) after six months. And wants to charge her $300 to transfer it over to a new template.

Understandably, she's pretty upset. Can anyone tell us if there is a way to migrate one complete website into a new template without her re-doing every photo (she displays photos of her art, lots of them) and she knows it will take lots of time to re-do all the website ...

Not sure if I can give the site here, but if anyone wants to see it, to know if it can direct transfer, please PM me. Go-daddy says there is not a way to transfer her site, but then again, it wants $300 to do it, so there must be a way to simply flip it ...

Thanks ... Bill & Genie ...

[MrWizard]

it seems very strange, that she has to do one at a time
i was always able to do a bulk upload of a folder full of pictures or documents
via FTP into the host server

[tatest]

Considering that folks who build websites charge upwards of $1000 a day, $300 for a transfer sounds reasonable, since you know that rebuilding it yourself will take "lots of time."

I don't really know the details for GoDaddy, since I'm not there, haven't used the easy-build templates. Of the dozens of websites I've built, I coded them all as HTML 2 or HTML 3.2 and uploaded (or copied, inside the corporate intranet) them to my web servers. Mine don't didn't do anything fancy, they just present information.

Without knowing how to actually code for the web, being at mercy of templates and not even knowing how the templates work, paying someone who does know how sounds reasonable.

[monkey44]

She's not as much concerned about the site info as about the time it takes to upload so many images. The site itself is fairly simple - but uploading one image at a time is very time-consuming. It's not difficult, but she'd like to transfer all the images at once by "cross-loading" (?) directly into a new website without doing it one image at a time.

I think she's resigned to uploading one at a time tho - we just hoped there was an easier way to transfer all images at once into the new site. 😞 😞

[mikebreeze]

I maintain a web site for an organization that is also hosted on godaddy.com . Our site is Linux based. So we don't have to worry about proprietary code or templates or anything like that. It's all open source. Maybe she should look into a Linux site? She would have to download all of her images and web pages and then upload them to the new site. But after that, she won't have to deal with any other issues.

[MrWizard]

Is there a go daddy's user forum
Have her login, and find out if this has ever happen before
If yes, she might want to fine a new web host,
If this is the second or third time, they will do it again

You can bet go Daddy has already written the trans code scripting for the new template, no body will be involved in individually changing each of their millions of websites one by one, this is a way to make from their customers

There should be a way to export all her pages, the complete site as HTML pages and save them to her PC, preferably on a flash drive

This may help rebuild on a new site if neededI haven't built any websites in about 10 years and I know the coding has changed, with lots of built in server scripts which won't be in the export

[tragusa3]

Would a Google Site work? It's free.