Before doing anything else, take a couple of weeks to gothrough the DW
tutorials, and also to study HTML and CSS. The more you know about those,
the easier your transition will be. DW expects alot more from you than FP
did, and as a result, you may find it much more frustrating to have the raw
reality of web development staring you in the face rather than the wizards
of FP.
Post by lobo55Is there a way to convert a Frontpage site into a
Dreamweaver site
1. I'd define a Dreamweaver site that points to a location on your hard
drive for the local site's root, and to the current FP site on the web as
the remote site
2. I'd use Dreamweaver (if your host supports FTP connections) to download
the remote site to the root of the site you just defined on the hard drive.
This will pick up all the pages *after* webbot action so that shared borders
and all are already present in the page HTML. This will also pick up all of
the server scripting. Note - in the event that you are not able to connect
using FTP since some FP hosts block that protocol, you will have to use a
third party 'site copier' like Black Widow, QuadSucker, or WebCopier, (or
even the DW extension called SiteAssist from WebAssist) to connect and
download using http protocols. Doing it this way will *not* retrieve any of
your server-script code, if any (unless you have used the WebAssist
extension).
3. I'd create a DW template for the pages, that captures the "shared
border"
effect you had in FP.
4. I'd copy and paste content from each FP pages to a new template child
page and then save the new child page with an easily identifiable
nomenclature that is distinct from what was used on the FP site (since you
are saving the new child pages into the same local site as the FP pages).
5. When the basic site is completed, I'd upload the new DW pages to some
staging area/webspace, and by using the browser, I'd verify that the site
(as it now exists remotely) is complete.
6. Then I'd create a *new* DW site in a new location on the hard drive, and
connect to and download all the files from the staging site.
7. You can now delete the original FP site from your local system if you
want.
You now have a complete site (minus any of the FP extension server-side
code) that has no FP footprint.
If you have used any FP server extension functions on the original FP site
(form processing, guestbooks, tables of contents, etc.), you will have to
recreate those functions in DW using 3rd party scripts, or scripts that you
write yourself.
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Post by lobo55Hello,
I have earlier built my websites in Frontpage, since I now am a happy owner of
Studio 8 ( and newbie) I would like to make my websites editabel in Dreamweaver
without loosing the layout. Is there a way to convert a Frontpage site into a
Dreamweaver site