Please help a stressed learner i have just built my website from a template i made but some how i over wrote my template with one of my pages i have made about seven pages from this template but i have over written it now how can i recover my template from the pages that i have already made with it

can i unlock the the table or the layouts

thank you please any help

If you overwrote your template there is probably not a way to get it back. Contact the company you got it from, and start over again. Best of luck!

Probably a little late for you now JC1520 but you are learning something that we all have learned. How to deal with version control. When ever you get your site, or even a page to a certain point it is time to save it as a back up. Many times even if we are only working on a small part of a site, it can be a good idea to save the entire site as a version that we can revert back to.

Come up with a version control that you are comfortable with. The date us usually a good thing to include in your naming system, Then add something to further this.

Example: I start working on a new site. I have a lot of it created and start making site wide changes or even specific page changes. I will usually back up the entire site by renaming it and saving a new copy to work with.

mysite.com-2006.11.06a
mysite.com-2006.11.06b
mysite.com-2006.11.06c
mysite.com-2006.11.06c.1
mysite.com-2006.11.07a
mysite.com-2006.11.07b
etc, etc.

These are names that I give to the folder that holds the entire site. it may seem like overkill, but if you do this you will keep yourself from recreating a lot of work in a years time. That is for sure.

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A side point: As good as I am at version control even I make mistakes and mess up files. The other day this happened. I lost the original home page to a client's site. The work that I lost would cost me an entire day's work and I didn't have the original anywhere due to a need to restore my laptop and not realizing that my desktop did not have a version newer than one year old.

I was really in deep water as I couldn't even remember the specifics of the page. Not only for semantics sake but the page was a page that I worked hard at getting to rank very well and my client relied on traffic from google.

Google...! Yes, google saved me... I went to google and pulled up their cached version of the page. There it was just as it should be. I saved it, added the link that I needed to add, and we were back in business..! It was only an hour from the time I overwrote the original file with the out of date replacement, and Google hadn't spiddered the site to reset their cache.

Just thought I'd pass it on... Google saved the day..!

Thank you guys this was a real pain

i am glad you have experience the same
you know what....

I manage to get it back as i had save a copy of the site accross to my server not that i remeber doing it

it was on because i had 2 D drives on the network one map and the other a physical
and it was saved on the maped D drive.

so i was able to go there and get it but i now have learn t a well thought lesson

I am only learning this game.

thank you

i just need to work out now how to create a photo gallery but using the same template for my site now

thanks again

Whe you run into something that you need help with JC1520 you know hwhere to come to! Hopefully we'll see you soon.

Sorry I didn't say so before - Welcme