Umbrella Journal Going Offline
 

Sorry to hear that, Kate. There's so much good stuff there.

Do you mind my asking what host you are using? If it were Wix, for example, you could simply switch to a free plan that doesn't use your own domain, and they would keep it up indefinitely with little Wix branding logos at the bottom of each page.

I stayed with an outfit called ICD Soft which I selected way back in 2006. The content management software is defunct and could not even be transferred to a different hosting platform. Time to say goodbye.

I just copied the entire website to my computer using a free program called Cyotek WebCopy. You and others may wish to do the same. I never copied a website before, but this seems to have worked beautifully. What I now have looks exactly like Umbrella/Bumbershoot and allows me to click around freely from page to page. I don't even have to be on the internet now to access the entire site. The site takes about 52MB on my hard drive.

Alas, now people will have to get my book - to be out soonish. Furthermore, I miss your wit on Eratosphere.

Seriously? That's fantastic. Is there any way you can wing that to me or do I have to go through the motions? Wouldn't that hog the ol' hard drive? I'm not sure how big 52MB is.

I could figure out a way to get you the files, but I'm not entirely sure if it would work the same way on your computer because I don't know if the relative position of the internal hyperlinks would remain the same. It might. But the safest thing to do is to download that program I mentioned and then download a copy of the site onto your computer the way I did. I don't know how much free space you have on your hard drive, but 52MB isn't a huge amount at all (many people have 100 times that amount of storage on their phones they're using for snapshots). It would easily fit on even the smallest and cheapest available thumb drives these days.

I'll try to download it from that site tomorrow. Thanks so much.

It's a lovely journal. A really beautiful design - particularly given that it started before the web got all dialogic & slick.

And such gorgeous poetry, too. The Carmine Street special is amazing.

I hope it's on the Wayback Machine - https://archive.org/web/

If it isn't I'd happily contribute if people needed funds to place it there (I don't think you do though)

Sarah-Jane

Thank you so much! I think the Wayback Machine has probably got it!

As far as I can tell, the Wayback Machine only has some of the pages but did not capture nearly the whole site. I wasn't aware of it before, but Sarah-Jane seems to be suggesting that you can pay them a fee to preserve the whole site, but this is news to me if it's true.

Sorry to hear this, Kate! And Roger, good work doing the site copy.

Indeed, this thread has just been brought to my attention, with the suggestion to make the archive available here at the Eratosphere! That should be no problem. So, Roger, can you send the data to me, say via Google Drive or or such?

Cheers,
...Alex

Alex, I've put it in my Dropbox and sent you a sharing link.

You still might find it easier to download the program and then download the site on your own. It just takes a minute to install, and then you just enter the top URL for the site and the program does the rest very quickly and easily.

Thanks, Roger--in that case, I'll go with installing the program and site download. Cheers--Alex

Hi Roger,

Just to clarify as even though the information is no longer needed here, it might come in handy in a different context.

You can save individual pages in Wayback for free & there's a chrome extension to support multiple page-saving, but obviously, this site would be too large to do this 'by hand' page by page.

They have a pay-for archive feature that automatically crawls and backs up websites. I have no direct experience of this, I'd just heard about the service. Info about both here.

That is so brilliant that the journal will be saved - and I hope I get the chance to read some more of the back issues.

Sarah-Jane

Hi, Bernadette, Roger, and everyone--

It's done!
Go here
OR you may also click the 'archived e-zines' menu item at the top menu of most Eratosphere pages.

Cheers,
...Alex

That's great, Alex. I'm so glad Umbrella/Bumbershoot will continue to be with us.

I'm flabbergasted! This is wonderful, Alex, and thank you Roger for helping. I will spread the news.

Technologically challenged as usual, I'm opening on the final issue and don't see a way back to the start of this wonderful journal. Help?

Okay, I got it: go to "archive" at the bottom of the page.

Hey, I'm back with my ugly mug beside one of my favorite poems. Super! Thanks, you people.

Allen, try this link, and you'll see the earlier issues of not just Umbrella, but also Bumbershoot and Tilt-a-Whirl.

I'll submit ˜THE WORM˜, Folly, and Lilt, after I've finished the other thing that I promised Alex last week that I would finish within a week....

Duh. I was in a pre-dinner table-setting panic and did not look well enough. When dinner is served, it must be ate. Thank you.