Edit iweb site in Dreamweaver

Has anyone tried to recreate an iweb site using Dreamweaver on a pc? Why would you do this? Just for the experience of learning Dreamweaver. The first hurdle is trying to find all the images which are scattered instead of located in one images subfolder.

> but I cannot figure out how to open
> the main page and start editing it.
Read the instructions on the drupal site or elsewhere on how
to modify or
customize the "template" system they use.
You cannot edit the actual pages of a drupal CMS in
dreamweaver- it is all
php and included files and database calls. The "pages" you
see in the site
don't exist anywhere, they are assembled on the fly by the
drupal scripting.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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Is it possible to import my iWeb site to dreamweaver? I want to do this because i find that iWeb is too simplistic and i find the options are limited. To be honest all i want to do is put the website on dreamweaver and fiddle around with the HTML code and maybe do a couple of extra things. Anyway is it possible?

Publish the site to a folder and then open the published files in Dreamweaver.
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I'm running Dreamweaver 8.0. I already installed an extension
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i won't touch front page sites where the client/user/owner
intends to keep
on using frontpage. Not even with a borrowed ten foot pole.
if they will keep there fingers out of it, yes; it can be
worked on. If they
want to keep using fp, no because in cleaning it up i'll
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> You could be right - it's been many years since I worked
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WANTING TO USE TWO COMPUTERS TO EDIT iWEB SITE

I'd like to use two different computers/two different people to edit my iWeb page. When I open iweb on the computer NOT USED for creating the site, I have to start all over. Is there a way for more than one person/computer to edit these pages...maybe using iDisk?
Please help!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

erikpotter,
Welcome to the discussions area.
The only way to edit any iWeb-created site with the application itself is by opening the Domain file, found in this location on your computer.
An iWeb Domain file can be opened with any Macintosh computer running the same version of iWeb the site was created in. You just need to make the Domain file available to the other person/machine.
Here are some tips for sharing and editing the same iWeb site between two machines.
Mark

Editing FP site with Dreamweaver (was "Question please")

This may be a stupid question, but I am not that familiar with web design. I have a web page that I created using Front Page. Can I maintain that site using Dreamweaver?
Thanks
Don

Hans always has good suggestions!
Also look here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/429114 -- FAQ
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/?view=gettingstarted -- Getting Started w/DW
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/frontpage_to_dw8.html -- Migrating from FP to DW
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/140/tn_14031.html -- converting an FP site to DW
At the beginning of this year, I moved from FP to DW. There is a definite learning curve and you must bite the bullet and learn some CSS in addition to HTML. There is great information on the Adobe website and lots of folks here who are very generous with their time to offer help. And, yes, when posting try to describe your problem in a few words in the subject line. You will get help much faster when you do that.
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Editing iWeb sites from new MacBook

I just bought a new MacBook, and how do I transfer all my photo galleries under two site created in iWeb on my old PowerBook to my new MacBook? Is there a way to edit sites that I haven't created on iWeb on my MacBook that are hosted on my .Mac account that I published from iWeb on my old PowerBook? I still have the PB and I would prefer not having to go back to it to put new galleries under the old sites.
Thanks for your help

You'll have to copy your domain file over to the new computer.
Open a Finder window. By default, the Finder opens a new window showing your local user area. Starting at this window, the iWeb Domain file is located inside the Library folder, inside the Application Support folder and inside the iWeb folder. It's called Domain.sites.
Copy this to the same location on the new computer and when you open iWeb, it should see and use it.

Newbie: Edit Drupal site in Dreamweaver?

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on it, and the index.php file just shows up blank in Dreamweaver.
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> but I cannot figure out how to open
> the main page and start editing it.
Read the instructions on the drupal site or elsewhere on how
to modify or
customize the "template" system they use.
You cannot edit the actual pages of a drupal CMS in
dreamweaver- it is all
php and included files and database calls. The "pages" you
see in the site
don't exist anywhere, they are assembled on the fly by the
drupal scripting.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Edit iweb site from previous computer system

OK, I created a website in iweb 06 about a year ago, but now I have iweb 08. Since then I also sold my old iMac and have purchased this new one. I want to go in and update this website, but can't find the iweb workspace where I can access the site info, update it, and publish with the changes on my new hard drive. When I type in the www address of the website in safari, it's still there and accessible on the web. But of course this doesn't allow me to make changes.
How do I re-access it to edit and re-publish?
Thanks!

iWeb cannot import published files.
To get some ideas on making rebuilding your site easier, look here...
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebBackupretrieve.html

Edit Existing Site With Dreamweaver

Im sure this question has been asked 100 times but how do I edit an existing site (published and on the web) with Dreamweaver CS5.5? I took over as webmaster last month at a company and would like to edit the companys website. How do I download the files off the web? I can do it with Contribute but not Dreamweaver.

Create a local site folder in DW. Site > Manage Sites > New.
Go to Advanced > Remote info and enter your log in-details (FTP, host URL, username, password).
Test connection to server.
Then GET files from server.
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Can I edit Wordpress site through Dreamweaver?

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WP Theme development requires really good coding skills in PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you're not a skilled coder and more specifically very familiar with how Child Themes work, I don't think DW's Design View will much help to you. It's all about working with code.
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http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
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Working with an iWeb site in Design view CS5

I brought in an iWeb site to Dreamweaver CS5 using the mange sites panel successfully with all assets. The site is perfect in Live Mode but is not workable in Design Mode. I have also FTP it to Business Catalyst and can see it in their design mode better than in Dreamweaver. Any assistance that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

iWeb and other so called WYSIWYG web authoring systems typically use poor code and bad layout practices which will cause experienced web developers and DW to puke.
The only thing I can suggest is to validate your code & fix reported errors or re-build the site with DW.
Code Validation Tools
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
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Editing web site from different computers

I'm working on a web site for a journalism class with another mac user. She registered for the 60 day .mac trial. How do I open up the web site on my computer so we can both edit it??? thanks!

Take a look at Apnewbie's helps for editing iWeb sites from more that one computer:
http://web.mac.com/mark8heaton/iWeb/SameSiteOn2Macs/Site%20Dexterity.html
The trick, in your case, however, is that you can't both work on it at the same time. You will have to send a thumb drive (or a CD or something) back and forth.

Has anyone tried editing an iWeb site with Contribute or Dreamweaver?

Before iWeb, I liked using Adobe Macromedia Contribute to edit the.Mac homepages. I've been giving iWeb a spin, and it seems to occupy the same place in Apple's stable as the rest of its siblings — a pre-pubescent version of Contribute, which is a subset of Dreamweaver.
I haven't yet tried it, but it seems as if the iWeb templates would be a good starting point, and Contribute/Dreamweaver would be great tools to polish the site.
I'm still confused, though, as to what the .Mac WebDAV URLs are...that's the thing that always tripped me up. Dreamweaver 8 is a better at site management, it seems, but if anyone could post a "definitive" guide on using a third-party tool, it would be much appreciated.

yes you can use other websoftware to modify iweb sites either after it is on the webserver or if you save it to a folder before publishing.
I tried the demo of Dream weaver and it worked fine..also I used Rapidweaver which works too. Heck you could use anything that can edit HTML which is really just a text file.
The problem with iweb is it is using those stupid PNG files which are big and to make it worse it duplicates all your images rather than having them in a shared folder you can end up with dozens of the same image which when someone visits your site and changes pages it has to download the same image again!
pretty crazy stuff.
iweb looks nice and as long as people are viewing it with broadband you'd be ok but dialup users are "toast" even on a simple site.
I got the demo of rapidweaver which is not as intuiative but in someways is more complete and have done a 3 page site.. others are developing themes for it and also there are plugins which add alot of functionality.
at $35 USD it is cheap and if you go to http://www.screencastsonline.com there are 3 videos to show you how to use it and a discount code.
I personally thing iweb is great but has some design flaws that will need to be delt with.

How can another person on a PC edit an iWeb site?

Can someone edit an iWeb site using a browser or another app? Is there a way to run iWeb on a PC?

In a word NO.
If you want to do anything like this using a PC, then choose another programme. DreamWeaver is both PC and Mac compatible, or else you need to use something like an online system such as the content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal or Joomla.

Downloading and editing an existing WordPress site in Dreamweaver CS5.

Hello! New to the forums, here.
I'll try to be brief. I've got a WordPress site in-place at metalmeter.com that is hosted through HostGator. Basically, what I'm looking to do is get the site from the remote server and edit it in Dreamweaver CS5, previewing all changes on a local testing server before putting the updated contents back on the remote server.
Now, let me be clear: I've tried plenty of the tutorials. I've watched hours of videos. I still can't get it configured properly. I've got the FTP connection to the remote server running smoothly. I've got XAMPP installed. I'm having difficulties (and I apologize for being vague), and I just don't know where the problem is located. In my htdocs folder for XAMPP, I've got two subfolders 'metalmeter' for the remote server's downloaded contents, and 'wordpress' for the wordpress installation that every page seems to be pointing me toward. What confuses me is that when I try and open the uppermost index.php file on the remote server, the dynamically discovered content is not being displayed in the live view with my local testing server. I want to be viewing my existing WordPress site in its entirety exactly as I see it online while I'm editing it, and then pushing back updated files to the /public_html/ root directory of the remote server so that I can edit the site from my local client. I'm extremely new to Dreamweaver, so any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
If you know how to do exactly what I'm trying to do and have been successfully viewing and editing your existing WordPress site in Dreamweaver for upload, please take some time to explain the set-up. I'd be forever in your debt!

Nancy O. wrote:
I've been following this discussion for a while now and I don't understand why you hope to edit articles from DW. That's what the WP Admin panel is specifically designed for. Besides, you won't find your articles in any of the site files because they don't exist there.
I agree I don't see any reason to want to edit a Wordpress site in Dreamweaver. If you are using Wordpress then you may as well put Dreamweaver in the bin. Although people do actually want to edit and manipulate the design in Dreamweaver (including myself) and from what I've read its possible but I've never found a source which explains fully how to achieve this and those that I have it seems too much effort to even bother about.
I guess the Dreamweaver environment feels more like home and is more user friendly.
To put it another way, a typical WordPress installation contains around 800 files in some 80 folders. Those files don't contain any content, just a whole lot of PHP code. In fact, the only page most people ever see on your site is the index.php page which is dynamically created over & over by the server with content from the MySql and various include files.
For sure and that's why people who use Dreamweaver and feel the need to manipulate a Wordpress site in Dreamweaver because Wordpress is 'in vogue' get lost. Wordpress just containes a lot of pages with nothing to see apart from some php, many of who will not understand one jot.
Unless you're a coding guru, you should definitely NOT touch any of the core WP files as this could cripple your site. If you want to customize your Theme, look at the CSS and include files in your Themes folder. See Anatomy of a WordPress Theme:http://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/
lol your not wrong there!
For a quick tip on Theming, open your remote site in Firefox equipped with the 'Web Developer Toolbar'. Edit CSS on screen. Save changes to your local site and upload it to the remote server. No testing server required.
Wordpress is Wordpress and Dreamweaver is Dreameaver. As far as I can make out the two don't mix.
Ideally you would just choose a Wordpress theme which most relates to the nice site you have designed in Fireworks of which you won't find any however goodthe themes are. Then manipulate the themes css that's if you can understand it. Even for a seasoned css expert its heavy going because everyone produces css differently to achieve the same results.
Leave Wordpress well anlone unles you're going to use it out of the box so to speak or as a web-developer don't mind a bit of reverse engineering.

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