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Rochelle
Before you make any changes to your site’s code, no matter how small the change, you should copy the original code and save it in Notepad (or equivalent). Why? Because if you make a mistake you can easily fix your error by pasting your original code back and saving it. Mistakes are easily undone this way. And if you didn’t save your original code and make a mistake it can be a painful process undoing what you did, especially if you don’t understand HTML or css code.
My instructions to save original code before any changes are made to it: |
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| Go to the document you want to change. | |
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| Copy the entire code (Windows CTRL+A, Mac CMD+A). | |
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| Open Notepad (or equivalent program but not a word processor as that will muck up the code) and paste (Windows CTRL+V, Mac CMD+V) your copied code to the Notepad. | |
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You now have the original code to revert to should you make a mistake in modifying the code.
If you have additional changes to make it is best to save a copy of the code after each change. For good measure you might want to save the code from the original copy somewhere on your computer in case you decide to discard all changes, but that’s up to you.
Rochelle
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Sissy asked on another post how I keep all my save documents organized. It was a good question and I am copying my answer to her here.
When I save copies I don’t actually ’save’ them to my computer. There would be far too many files to save if I did this. What I do is open Notepad and paste my code to it. I will open as many new Notepad files as I need but I don’t save any of them so they are all untitled.
I leave each Notepad open until I am positive I no longer need the original code. When I’m sure I no longer need it I close the Notepad file.
If I made a mistake and need to revert to the original code then I go through each open Notepad and figure out which is the one I need. This shouldn’t be too hard as the bulk of the code will be the same as the one I modified.
Rochelle
Nice one, I use notepad++ myself, which is much better than the stock notepad that windows comes with.