[Resolved] Something new - Transplanting a theme on saved pages?

[Dr_Test]

Something new - Transplanting a theme on saved pages?

This will be new.

I saved a few important pages off the net (by going to File>Save Page As, via Firefox) but when I visit a saved offline page, it looks like trash. The theme is messed up.

But I have an earlier version of the site also saved (which views properly), and was wondering if I could somehow transplant the old site's theme files over the new ones (it's a forum, so I think the architecture is the same, or mostly the same) but don't know how. Simply dropping the old files over the new didn't change anything.

Any ideas? This is the site. Pick a random thread here to try to save via FF (the only browser I can use in this case), and notice that you can't view your saved page cleanly. Saved older versions of the site, however, look fine, and in fact I NEED the newly saved pages to have the site's theme from a month ago, so that all saved pages look consistent.

 

[qbert220]

The difference is probably caused by your selection of "Save as type". Set it to "Web page, complete" to save the style also.

 

[user-7256]

Can't you just go to "Save As..." then choose "Web page, Complete" under the file type?

 

[Dr_Test]

That's what I did... I also tried an FF addon that was supposed to do a "more complete" save, but with the same result. Notice below. On the left is the actual page. On the right is the page after saving it, then opening the .html file.



Still, however, I need to find a way to give a handful of saved pages the OLD forum's theme, which I have on hand in older saves.

 

[Peter]

looking at the screen shots it looks like the css is missing.

 

[Dr_Test]

Yeah, that makes sense to me... (non-coder here though, so not sure what to do about it)

For $40 (USD) via PayPal, does anyone want to take these saved pages (7 of them) and apply the site's old CSS to them? (or maybe you just call it the "theme", etc... not sure how forums are built) Or are there perhaps just one or two lines that have to be changed, to point to some new file/s?

Here's a zip - and here (alternate link), so you can examine them... but PLEASE email me first before doing anything to them, so that multiple people don't end up all fixing the files! (email is [email protected] - just exchange domain and username) Basically, this zip has the files from an older version of the site (slightly modified theme... in the folder that says "Photography in HSC BOW") as well as the ones that I want to be updated to that older look (the other 2 folders).

Any takers?

 

[Dr_Test]

Update: I figured it out! Hah, I had just learned how to apply a CSS file to a page in Expression Web, when I hit refresh on a random website, and noticed that IT had reloaded without its style sheet... so I thought, "Hmm, I wonder if I could just apply the forum's old CSS to the new saved files," and I tried it, and it worked. Quite very ironic how this played out, actually... almost like divine intervention; things lining up and suggesting their solutions like bam, bam, bam.

I'm going to give myself $45.