One of THOSE Weeks!
We’ve all had them… THOSE weeks. The weeks where you’re flying twelve different directions doing everything for everyone when suddenly you realize it’s Friday and nothing has really been accomplished.
It’s been that kind of week for me. I’ve been busy every waking moment yet I’ve accomplished little. One of the things I thought I’d accomplished was updating the Romance Writers Ink site. This morning I received an email from a board member telling me that the page I updated yesterday was now missing.
Somehow in the process of saving the page I deleted every bit of content. I actually believe the error was due, in part or whole, to the Spaw WYSIWYG editor I’d installed in our Joomla content management system. I’ve had it happen before (and usually I double-check things before signing off on them!), but in my haste to get the update made and make a meeting half an hour later I didn’t check to make sure everything was published correctly.
My mistake.
This morning I had to recreate the whole page. (sigh)
Thanks to the fact that Google caches sites, I was able to copy and paste most of the text from the original page. I had to re-do the edits I made yesterday, but it sure beat having to rewrite the whole page!
The quick and dirty way to rescue a lost page is to do a search for your site on Google, then click the cached link.
Copy and paste your lost info and, violà! You’ve saved yourself a lot of work.
Still lovin’ the Google!