Facebook is a wonderful place to find interesting sources of information and pictures. There are times though that you get disconnected links or problems with accessing the referenced web site. One such site that I came across recently dealt with Jess Bell Photography.
When I clicked on the listed link from Facebook, this is as far as I got.
Most people would be stopped at this point. By using a proxy I was able to access the site, but then experienced another issue when viewing the page. The actual pictures had broken links.
At this point I was ready to go on to the next level. For programmers in HTML, I was aware that I could look for the links manually. By looking at the source code of the page itself I was able to find the very links to the images.
Still using the proxy, I would go directly to the image without all the page code. This is much cleaner and simpler. The end result is this image.
To many, this would seem to be a complex and laborious process. It actually only took me a few minutes to accomplish this.
For many sites that I favor, I would collect images for future reference then print the page as a PDF. The PDF would be later encoded to link to the image files. The purpose of this is that many sites that I have accessed in the past either disappear or are no longer supported by the host provider.
I have many, many old bookmarks that no longer work and I started to save a representation of the sites in preparation of this. The other tool that I would use first on much older sites would be the WayBack machine. This is a site that also collects a snapshot of the web page during that time frame. I have been able re-visit old web sites this way, but again, over time these also seem to fade away to make room for current site archiving.
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