[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

[jack entonces] “Is there an easy and quick way to make my index page a construction page, AS WELL AS all the
other pages on my website?”

well – rather than change the pages themselves, you can potentially leverage your webserver to just redirect all requests to any page to your construction page – for most hosting plans, you’d need apache and htaccess support (check your plan for that)…if you do have that, then let us know and i can show you a redirect option you can set up at the site root for all pages…

but outside of that, no – not really. and although the old school “web rules” don’t seem to apply as much any more, one of the big ones was always don’t have under construction pages – they are very annoying to a visitor as they are a hard dead end, so if you can at all avoid them while you’re doing the upgrade…

hope that helps!

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

ya – javascript is the tool that you need – i wrote a simple example and put it on my site for you:

https://www.sitruc.com/cow/js_copy_fields.html

you can get a lot fancier, but that should be the general concept you were looking for, yes?

lemme know if not or if you have other questions!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

yes – there are a ton of free options using just about every viable scripting language you can imagine – i’d start here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=free+poll+script

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

yes…here’s a variety of options for you that use javascript to control a flash movie…

https://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+control+flash+movie

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

have you tried something like php nuke (a cms system – https://phpnuke.org/)? if that’s too big, then i’d really just give google a shot – php has _Tons_ of freeware things written that are available all over the place – things like photo galleries, forums, etc. etc…

that would be the best bet. i don’t have any specific software packages to recommend based on what you need, but i know there are some out there that would fit the bill…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

[Whiteviper1] “How can i change it to a txt. file”

you’re not changing it per se – you’re just changing the extension so that when you double click on it, windows will see the .txt and open it as plain text – if it was a plain text file already, notepad will display it as text and you can copy/paste – although word can open plain text files as well.

you can also just force word to open it without changing the extension – if you see the text in word then you’re good to go…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if it’s just plain text, try changing the extension to .txt and opening it in notepad or wordpad…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

if it’s just plain text, you should be able to copy/paste text out of it and into word, yes? that’s about all i can suggest though – i don’t know of any converter…i assume you googled for such a thing already?

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello….

[Whiteviper1] “that can convert a file thats very limited”

what type of file? impossible to say if there’s a converter if the original file type isn’t known…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i’d start here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=isp+comparison

(sorry – not trying to be flippant, but it is probably your best bet – or search the archives here to find thoughts on this topic – we get it a lot)

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