Rescuing AC's official website - saved by BUncle

[Buster's Uncle]

When we last saw our hero working on this, he had a good 95% of the official site fixed up and ready for prime time.  The remainder, excepting the Links page, is a doozy, though.  However, all intrepid-like he has squared his shoulders and determined to make an end of it, ASAP.

I still have a lot of tedium in front of me with the tech mini-pages, but any help I could get toward (re)constructing the basic and advanced concepts pages would be great...

Making the mini pages come up mini is still beyond my skills, but I made the Terrain and Terraforming pages in an afternoon.  If anyone would care to browse the Wayback Machine achive of that section to get a feel for the style of the mini-pages, I could still desperately use help reconstructing the Basic and Advanced Concepts pages, which seem entirely gone.  Basically, it ought to be the text from the Datalinks entries under those categories.

If anyone can tell me how to do the rollover thing where the sidebar links blue when you mouseover them, I would like to put that back in, too - I'm trying to be fairly faithful to the original.

We can do it, and the AC community will benfit.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've just reviewed the thread, and I see I never fixed the problem with the .swf flash movie of the graphic novel.  The link currently goes through the Wayback Machine, and works, but take a few minutes to load.  The whole point of this project is to not depend on the Wayback Machine, with its missing pictures and slowness.

The code Kil posted pages back might fix the rollover highlighting, once everything else is done, and I have time to track down where to insert it - then repeat the process 8 times a page for something over 8 pages.

I'm poking around and re-orienting; it was a pain just finding where I had the tech mini-pages saved, and I'm still trying to sort it out.  It's a mountain of stuff, or I'd have gotten it done in February.  Now I have to rediscover what I was doing then, too...

[Buster's Uncle]

And part of the fun is that the mini-pages are full of hyperlinks to each other; once I've put them all together, I have to go back through each and fix the links.

I took a break from, this after over three weeks of doing little else for 16 hours a day, for a reason...

[Buster's Uncle]

God, am I tired.

It took me a veryvery long time to get oriented enough with where stuff was saved and what I wanted and where to start, so I could commence to page editing, but go here: http://alphacentauri2.info/official/Sid%20Meier%27s%20Alpha%20Centauri%20Technology.htm and click on "Societal Models".  Another little section is rescued.  Let me know about any problems you spot.

The mini frames thing is some javascript dealy.

I have stayed up entirely too late, just to see this bit through to the end, but I made a promise, and this is a token of good faith. 

Going to bed.

[Kilkakon]

Those social engineering pages all seem pretty good to me! What was the Javascript problem you mentioned? I've picked up a lot of web skills since February...

[sisko]

..Let me know about any problems you spot.

all good except the prerequisite tech links. i guess you should have started with the 'Technology' section since almost all entries will have links back to them.

[Buster's Uncle]

Shrugs.  You're looking at it all wrong; the important part is that I fixed all the links, that I figured out a way to get it on the first pass efficiently.  All I have to do now is fill in the destinations.  I'll work on technologies next.

Kil, the link for Weapons, for instance, is

javascript:launchPedia('pedia.cfm?index=y');

.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oops. That's the Technolgies link I quoted.

Does anyone remember how I managed to save those mini-pages?  There's minis I either can't find or missed saving - and I don't remember how I saved them, and never talked about it in a public post.

[Buster's Uncle]

Kil, this is the index page the link is supposed to link to, though the filename is not "index", which is what I was looking for.  Maybe the java is in the code I'm stripping out...

It turns out right-clicking>View source gets you the .html code, which you can save.  I'm sure that isn't how I did it before, though.

[Buster's Uncle]

And here's the unaltered Tech page, in case there's something useful there.

[Buster's Uncle]

Ugh.  The SE pages were a grind to edit, but pretty straightforward; the links had the right filenames and just needed the Wayback junk stripped out so they point to the edited pages we host.  These technology links point at numbered stuff "technum=87", to which I would just add the ".htm" last night and be done, but the file for the actual page I quote here saved as "Transcendent%20Thought.htm" in this section.  Fine - it's a little extra work, and slower, but the name is right there on the link text, and I'll cope - but the scroll buttons at the top of the page also point at the numbered stuff, which means I have to go back and forth with the index page checking links to find out what the heck it's pointing at, and all that's going to take five or ten times as long - over 80+ pages.

-Also, they're arranged alphabetically in the index, but not numbered in that order.  Make that 20 times as long.

$#@!

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay, it's taking forever, but I'm using those links to assemble a table of what tech is what number, which will ultimately save me a lot of back-and forth time in editing links to techs -which also pointed to numbers in the SE pages- and should prove handy to modders when I post it.

I really could have used it back when I was making tech symbol avatars, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's the table, sorted both ways:

Index of Technology

Adaptive Doctrine      technum=79
Adaptive Economics      technum=80
Adv. Ecological Engineering   technum=62
Advanced Military Algorithms   technum=18
Advanced Spaceflight   technum=66
Advanced Subatomic Theory   technum=13
Applied Gravitonics      technum=24
Applied Physics      technum=4
Applied Relativity      technum=10
Bioadaptive Resonance   technum=81
Bio-Engineering      technum=50
Biogenetics      technum=1
Biomachinery      technum=51
Centauri Ecology      technum=7
Centauri Empathy      technum=58
Centauri Genetics      technum=73
Centauri Meditation      technum=47
Centauri Psi      technum=63
Controlled Singularity   technum=27
Cyberethics      technum=53
Digital Sentience      technum=33
Doctrine: Air Power      technum=39
Doctrine: Flexibility      technum=36
Doctrine: Initiative      technum=35
Doctrine: Loyalty      technum=43
Doctrine: Mobility      technum=6
Ecological Engineering   technum=60
Environmental Economics   technum=59
Ethical Calculus      technum=44
Eudaimonia      technum=54
Field Modulation      technum=78
Frictionless Surfaces   technum=15
Fusion Power      technum=11
Gene Splicing      technum=49
Graviton Theory      technum=22
High Energy Chemistry   technum=14
Homo Superior      technum=67
Industrial Automation   technum=46
Industrial Base      technum=2
Industrial Economics   technum=45
Industrial Nanorobotics   technum=72
Information Networks   technum=3
Intellectual Integrity   technum=37
Matter Compression      technum=20
Matter Editation      technum=70
Matter Transmission      technum=57
Mind/Machine Interface   technum=41
Monopole Magnets      technum=19
Nanometallurgy      technum=16
Nanominiaturization      technum=42
Neural Grafting      technum=52
Nonlinear Mathematics   technum=9
N-Space Compression   technum=84
Optical Computers      technum=71
Orbital Spaceflight      technum=76
Organic Superlubricant   technum=68
Photon/Wave Mechanics   technum=40
Planetary Economics   technum=61
Planetary Networks      technum=32
Polymorphic Software   technum=23
Pre-Sentient Algorithms   technum=30
Probability Mechanics   technum=29
Progenitor Psych      technum=77
Quantum Machinery      technum=69
Quantum Power      technum=25
Retroviral Engineering   technum=75
Secrets of Alpha Centauri   technum=64
Secrets of Creation      technum=65
Secrets of the Human Brain   technum=48
Secrets of the Manifolds   technum=83
Self-Aware Machines   technum=34
Sentient Econometrics   technum=74
Sentient Resonance      technum=82
Silksteel Alloys      technum=12
Singularity Mechanics   technum=26
Social Psych      technum=5
String Resonance      technum=85
Super Tensile Solids      technum=31
Superconductor      technum=8
Superstring Theory      technum=17
Synthetic Fossil Fuels   technum=38
Temporal Mechanics    technum=28
The Will to Power      technum=55
Threshold of Transcendence   technum=56
Transcendent Thought   technum=88
Unified Field Theory      technum=20

........................................................................

Biogenetics      technum=1
Industrial Base      technum=2
Information Networks   technum=3
Applied Physics      technum=4
Social Psych      technum=5
Doctrine: Mobility      technum=6
Centauri Ecology      technum=7
Superconductor      technum=8
Nonlinear Mathematics   technum=9
Applied Relativity      technum=10
Fusion Power      technum=11
Silksteel Alloys      technum=12
Advanced Subatomic Theory   technum=13
High Energy Chemistry   technum=14
Frictionless Surfaces   technum=15
Nanometallurgy      technum=16
Superstring Theory      technum=17
Advanced Military Algorithms   technum=18
Monopole Magnets      technum=19
Matter Compression      technum=20
Unified Field Theory      technum=20

Graviton Theory      technum=22
Polymorphic Software   technum=23
Applied Gravitonics      technum=24
Quantum Power      technum=25
Singularity Mechanics   technum=26
Controlled Singularity   technum=27
Temporal Mechanics    technum=28
Probability Mechanics   technum=29
Pre-Sentient Algorithms   technum=30
Super Tensile Solids      technum=31
Planetary Networks      technum=32
Digital Sentience      technum=33
Self-Aware Machines   technum=34
Doctrine: Initiative      technum=35
Doctrine: Flexibility      technum=36
Intellectual Integrity   technum=37
Synthetic Fossil Fuels   technum=38
Doctrine: Air Power      technum=39
Photon/Wave Mechanics   technum=40
Mind/Machine Interface   technum=41
Nanominiaturization      technum=42
Doctrine: Loyalty      technum=43
Ethical Calculus      technum=44
Industrial Economics   technum=45
Industrial Automation   technum=46
Centauri Meditation      technum=47
Secrets of the Human Brain   technum=48
Gene Splicing      technum=49
Bio-Engineering      technum=50
Biomachinery      technum=51
Neural Grafting      technum=52
Cyberethics      technum=53
Eudaimonia      technum=54
The Will to Power      technum=55
Threshold of Transcendence   technum=56
Matter Transmission      technum=57
Centauri Empathy      technum=58
Environmental Economics   technum=59
Ecological Engineering   technum=60
Planetary Economics   technum=61
Adv. Ecological Engineering   technum=62
Centauri Psi      technum=63
Secrets of Alpha Centauri   technum=64
Secrets of Creation      technum=65
Advanced Spaceflight   technum=66
Homo Superior      technum=67
Organic Superlubricant   technum=68
Quantum Machinery      technum=69
Matter Editation      technum=70
Optical Computers      technum=71
Industrial Nanorobotics   technum=72
Centauri Genetics      technum=73
Sentient Econometrics   technum=74
Retroviral Engineering   technum=75
Orbital Spaceflight      technum=76
Progenitor Psych      technum=77
Field Modulation      technum=78
Adaptive Doctrine      technum=79
Adaptive Economics      technum=80
Bioadaptive Resonance   technum=81
Sentient Resonance      technum=82
Secrets of the Manifolds   technum=83
N-Space Compression   technum=84
String Resonance      technum=85


Transcendent Thought   technum=88

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Lovely that forums never recognise tabs.  Note that techs 21, 86 and 87 are not in the index.  I've attached the relevant icons - 87 is clearly a blank dummy tech, but what are the other two?  Should I create pages and add them to the section?

[Buster's Uncle]

Tech 86 has something to do with the string disruptor weapon - why would they leave it out?  85 is String Resonance, mind.

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't see anything about stasis on the list, but that surely would be a high number, and 86 is clearly a Prog tech, judging from the design style of the logo.

...

It took forever, but I did a little organizing in the folder where this stuff is saved after I made the table, and have finally completed the index and the first tech - the time savings payoff will start showing now; the frustration level is much lower, too.