Convert Front Page 2003 to Dreamweaver 8

I've done my best to go through the help pages and forums and
only have found import and conversion "extensions" for Dreamweaver
MX to import / convert a Front Page site - but I have Dreamweaver
8. My Front Page site is not to complicated. Just a lot of basic
content with FP shared borders and links:
www.alfredricci.com
(click one link on the home page to see the shared borders
and links)
I have the site on my Mac Book Pro with DW8 on OSX. Please
be so kind to guide me to the best / fastest / most efficient way
to import & convert this without starting from scratch.
Much appreciated,
Alfred

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.
> Is 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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"Chosen 1" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I've done my best to go through the help pages and
forums and only have
> found
> import and conversion "extensions" for Dreamweaver MX to
import / convert
> a
> Front Page site - but I have Dreamweaver 8. My Front
Page site is not to
> complicated. Just a lot of basic content with FP shared
borders and links:
> www.alfredricci.com
> (click one link on the home page to see the shared
borders and links)
>
> I have the site on my Mac Book Pro with DW8 on OSX.
Please be so kind to
> guide me to the best / fastest / most efficient way to
import & convert
> this
> without starting from scratch.
>
> Much appreciated,
> Alfred
> https://alfredricci.com
http://alfredricci.com
>

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and wondering how much work is involved if we want to use
dreamweaver now.
This will be great if you could sned us a document about the
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> but I don't believe there was much left
> of this in the 2003 version.
Sure there was. It was central to all of FP's enhanced
capabilities.
> won't be editable.
It's much more than not being editable. They will be broken
if you FTP
files to the FP site.
> Pretty much all you have to do is set up a site
definition and point it to
> your current files and you should be good to go.
Technically correct, but woefully understated.
From FrontPage to Dreamweaver (With CD-ROM) by Joseph Lowery
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789726882/qid=1013348638/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/002-5 917334-6040854
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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.
> Is 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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> Well you should be able to open and edit all of the
documents. You might
> just
> have trouble if you used FP Extensions, but I don't
believe there was much
> left
> of this in the 2003 version. And some other functions
like that which are
> specific to FP won't be editable.
>
> Pretty much all you have to do is set up a site
definition and point it to
> your current files and you should be good to go. If you
have specific
> examples
> of things that you are afraid might not work, post them
for people to
> evaluate.
>

How can I get Firefox to use Front Page 2003 as an editor for my website?

I have a website called www.gethsemanechurch.net. I use Front Page 2003 to update and maintain the site. Currently this was all being done using IE. However, my IE is now updated to IE10 and I am having problems with IE10. I figured I would try to use Firefox at this time.
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Front Page 2003 sites

I progressed from Seri 9 to FP 2003 earlier this year, but I
now want to develop more HTML skills etc, plus my ISP's Linix
server won't accept FP generated forms, so I have moved to DW8.
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to watch for
are items such as Themes, borders and navigation elements
that utilise
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have to have a
script to handle your form.
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net
"therealstratman" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I progressed from Seri 9 to FP 2003 earlier this year,
but I now want to
> develop more HTML skills etc, plus my ISP's Linix server
won't accept FP
> generated forms, so I have moved to DW8.
>
> Question is, can I easily convert existing FP2003 pages
into DW8 ones?
>

Add'l Front Page conversion help

I have read the discussions concerning the steps needed to
convert a Front Page website to Dreamweaver 8 website, especially
the one from "ACE". After going through the tutorials though I have
defined the remote server where the front page site resides and
also a folder or place holder on my PC's hard drive to hold it. How
is it (the website) copied? I see that dreamweaver has touched the
front page site in that in a viewer mode "slideshow" works.
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size I realize that the whole site was NOT exported. In reviewing
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have done.
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In DW, connect to the remote site. Expand the Files panel.
Select all the
files in the Remote site and GET them.
You now have the whole site in the local folder and can edit
them in DW.
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"masnee" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have read the discussions concerning the steps needed
to convert a Front
>Page
> website to Dreamweaver 8 website, especially the one
from "ACE". After
> going
> through the tutorials though I have defined the remote
server where the
> front
> page site resides and also a folder or place holder on
my PC's hard drive
> to
> hold it. How is it (the website) copied? I see that
dreamweaver has
> touched
> the front page site in that in a viewer mode "slideshow"
works.
>
> I tried exporting the site to an area but in looking at
the size I realize
> that the whole site was NOT exported. In reviewing the
article from ACE
> he
> suggests downloading the whole site which I have done.
>
> Can someone give me some guidance. Many Thanks
>

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>
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A quick question for someone...If I build a basic website in
Dreamweaver 8 and upload it to a server, can it be edited by
someone else with Front Page, whether they download it from the
server or I give them directly the files?

I wouldn't dream of combining DW and FP on the same site.
And, if the site
has been built with templates in DW>4, FP won't know what
to do with the
template markup. Also, if you have used DW's Library items,
or Server-side
includes, FP won't know what to do with them either.
It's likely to be a long, slow, train wreck.
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"Kevin E." <[email protected]> wrote in
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>A quick question for someone...If I build a basic website
in Dreamweaver 8
>and
> upload it to a server, can it be edited by someone else
with Front Page,
> whether they download it from the server or I give them
directly the
> files?
>

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