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Hi!

Am looking to nake significant lay-out changes to our website.  How can I make a complete copy of our current website, and then make whatever layout changes we want to the copy, with making any "adjustments" to our active our active website.

I want to see what the revised website and all its pages will look like before we change the "real" site.

Thank you in advance for your feedback

Dennis Jacobs, Website Administrator
davisontoastmasters.org
Greater Davison Area Toastmasters Club, #1323949

Dennis,

In general, we do not copy websites, per se.  However, you can still accomplish the equivalent of what I think you are after with the following approaches:

1. Generally, what I do myself is just create new custom webpages that are set as members only or officers only webpages, then just use the Web Page Tools (Save to file & Load from file) to effectively copy from an existing web page to the new web page.  Save the existing web page to a file, then load from that file into the new web page... you then have a copy of that web page to work with.  You can also do this to make a copy of your home page or any page that has the Web Page Tools drop down.

2.  If you need to experiment with what an officer may see vs what a member may see vs what a guest may see, etc.  then you can just create a fake member/guest/etc. using a free email address (gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc.) that you get for testing.  I have several extra free email addresses that I use just for testing scenarios of what different "people types" can see.  If you need them to be an officer, then make them an "Other Officer" so that you do not disturb your current officer settings.

3.  We do sometimes issue dummy demo websites (# is not a valid club number) for use for training by people associated w/ districts, at our discretion.  However, those websites are not copies (starting from beginning website), and they automatically delete themselves after 90 days.  If you really want work w/ something different than your own website, we could maybe issue you one of those.  You could use the web page copying approach above to copy over web pages.