hello, some months ago i started working on a website with a friend of mine who advised me to use contao. at the time i was totally new to web design, but now i am learning the basis to program simple websites and i would like to understand how he coded it, how can i change its structure and so on. i can not ask him because he's very busy with his graduation and i don't want to bother him to explain me by email all this over and over again.
the point is that the contao interface is not designed to reveal the code mechanisms at the base of a website, but rather conceal them in favor of a more simple usage. which is precisely what now prevents me to dig into the codes and learn from countless hours spent trying to understand the very structure of the website.
so i want to download a full backup of my site in order to work directly with the html and css codes, image folders, fonts and so on. i found the backup function in contao (picture 2), but i couldn't manage to download the full pack: only a .sql database which i honestly can't understand what it is for (only very long code, no html, no structure, no files) and a .cto archive which i couldn't open with my zip utility, that is anyway too light to contain the whole files of the website.
could anybody explain me how to download a folder with all the files, style sheets, html and so on (like picture 1)?
probably it's a silly question but i'm still very new to this... thank you very much
luca
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