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Design

Posted by Ira Salem
Ira Salem
10,331 Points

Experimenting with someone else's webpage

So I found the webpage of a business that I really like. The website sucks and I'm still pretty new to the whole web design field. I want to help him out and make it look better for a few reasons. 1) I believe it's a good business and I want to help the person out. 2) It'll help me with my creativity and give me something to work on since I have a hard time trying to figure out what I am willing to spend what little bit of free time I get.

I'm afraid to contact the person and ask them for whatever permissions I may need to experiment with it because if I'm not able to produce the desired results than I just wasted the persons time and lost some credibility. I'd rather do some things on my own and then if it comes out looking great, then I'll present my idea to them and if not then I'll just move on to something else. What's the best way to go at getting all of the pictures and the code? Is there a way to pull it as a file onto your desktop or will I just need to copy the code and save all of the images? I'm not doing this as my own by the way. I want to come up with something really nice and possibly present it to him.

3 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

If you are using a mac just use command S and save the site to a folder then drag it into a text editor and you should have everything there.

Ira Salem
Ira Salem
10,331 Points

Thanks Jacob. That was amazingly simple. Can't believe I didn't think of that. lol

Daniel Čupak
Daniel Čupak
6,602 Points
Daniel Čupak
Daniel Čupak
6,602 Points

Hi, Salem, I would open up the chrome dev tools and do changes there and make a screenshot afterwards for you can dowload the code ut what about the rest - all the css and js files?

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Also, have a look at Heroku. Using Heroku, you can push a production web app onto a domain and demonstrate your website "live". For example, I'm working through a Ruby on Rails tutorial at the moment which has had me creating this page which is now live in the Heroku environment. You can upload into that space just the same as if you had the access rights to your customer's web page - so you can present it real-time in a live-hosted environment.

Linking Heroku with Git enables you to manage development and production enviroments well too, as well as managing version control philosophies.