Editing an existing old website?

Can Dw edit an existing website. it is a 10+ year old website I think it was built with Dw. I have access to all of the web files. Can I download the html etc and edit the website? www.fencesupplyonline.com

Wow I could have slept last night had I known that! Now for the knows enough to be dangerous person like me "using the FTP connection" do I get that info form the web hosting company?

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Dreamweaver Help | Edit an existing remote website

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/edit-existing-remote-website.html

There is a program called Beyond Compare that will perform a comparison of local and remote folders via FTP, but it works on Windows only. I don't know if there's a similar program available for Mac OS X.
One way to find the number of items in the public_html folder on the remote server is to log into the site's control panel, and see if you can find the number of items listed there.
Alternatively, select Remote Server in the Dreamweaver Files panel, right-click the public_html folder, and select Synchronize from the context menu. In the dialog box that opens, select Entire [Site name] Site for Synchronize, and set Direction to "Get newer files from remote". Then click Preview.
Because you have such a large number of files, it will take Dreamweaver a long time to get all the information. In fact, you might find it just as quick to create a new site definition in a new folder, and attempt to download the site again.

How to edit an existing muse created website with muse on a new computer?

Hi Everyone,
I'm pretty new hear and could use some help. I downloaded Muse back when it was still in beta and used it to create a website www.southernski.com I really liked it's ease of use since i'm a newb at writing html and haven't gotten the hang of Dreamweaver. I need to update the site and make changes. The pc i was using before was running XP and the version of Muse then worked on it fine. But Muse has left XP behind and will not install the update on that machine and so I've installed a new version of Muse on a laptop with Windows 7. The files i used to create the website are on the pc that has failed and so I need to try and find out if it is possible to edit the existing site I have uploaded on a hosting site (not muse or adobe) and make the changes that are needed. Can someone please help me answer this question?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Sean

Hello Sean,
It is not possible to import the pages etc. from the hosting site to Muse for editing purposes. This is because Muse only opens files with the extension .muse (which is the extension for the muse website file that is created and saved in Muse). It is not possible to import .html files etc. in Muse for editing purposes, hence, you won't be able to edit your current website in it, however, if you are able to locate the .muse file that you created earlier (if you have a back up somewhere), you can simply copy that file in your new computer and open in it in Muse to start editing.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Parikshit

How do I edit an old website that is no longer listed on my iweb? It is still alive online...help!

I thought I had deleted it in iweb and started a new, unrelated website but then I see they are both alive under the same .com except one has .com/ with a different bit at the end. I ideally would like to either edit part of it or delete it all together if that is easer but it is no longer on iweb. Please help! Many thanks!

iWeb stores the website data in a Domain.sites2 file whose default location is Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html
If the old website has been deleted from this file you would need to rebuild it since iWeb cannot import published files.
To remove the older site from the internet you need to delete its files on the server using an FTP application or your host's file manager...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html

How do you edit an existing website in iWeb?

how do you edit an existing website in iWeb?

An existing website as in: editing one which has not previously been uploaded via iWeb?
I don't think you can. With the wysiwyg editing of iWeb, you can create a whole new website, make a new subdomain site or even upload a few extra created pages.
Thing is iWeb will only upload or save what you are making in it, therefore you can upload a whole new website to a domain, or upload them manually with ftp-clients. That also means you can't import an exsisting, for example html, script and edit it.
So in short: for as far as I know, you can't import whole pages into iWeb and edit those, you can only create and upload them.
Or as in: editing one I've already made, and uploaded on the same Mac?
Then simple make the changes you want, and hit the "Publish" button in the far down-left corner of the window. It will then overwrite the site you currently have.

Iphoto crashes when I try to edit existing (old) slideshow.

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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if iTunes crashed, you would enter "iTunes" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
          DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ User Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of crash reports. The name of each report starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report related to the process in question. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

Editing from a WYSIWYG Website

I designed a website using Web Page Maker (a WYSIWYG web
builder). Each piece of text and graphics is contained within it's
own "box" which represents the <div> "container" that the
program outputs. Although I can select this div and copy and paste
new ones to hold new pictures and text, I don't see anywhere on
this program where I can actually create a new one from the
toolbars. Can Contribute create new divs in order for my client to
update the website like I have it or do I need to totally rebuild
this website using dreamweaver? I'd prefer to leave it like it is
if at all possible. Please help!

nitrozilla wrote:
> I designed a website using Web Page Maker (a WYSIWYG web
builder). Each piece
> of text and graphics is contained within it's own "box"
which represents the
> <div> "container" that the program outputs.
Although I can select this div and
> copy and paste new ones to hold new pictures and text, I
don't see anywhere on
> this program where I can actually create a new one from
the toolbars. Can
> Contribute create new divs in order for my client to
update the website like I
> have it or do I need to totally rebuild this website
using dreamweaver? I'd
> prefer to leave it like it is if at all possible. Please
help!
>
Contribute as a product is mainly targeted for audience who
want to do
Web-Editing rather than Web-Designing.. however contribute
comes in with
most of the popular ways of editing the page.. however, it
also goes on
with how you would want your website to look at... Do you
really need a
<div> for it or would it suffice with a <table
border=0>! A <div> cannot
be created newly however you can edit an existing one or you
can
choose to follow this work around...
Edit your page, File->Actions->Edit Page source in
External Editor...
Set your Web Page primary editor to say NOTEPAD in
File->Preferences->Web Page (htm)... Add a div in
notepad... open it
back with contribute and add your content in the div..
Hope this helps..
Arun

Existing Kompozer Website but Wish to Move Over To CS4 Web Premium

Hopefully, i am in the right place to ask these questions. I'm a real novice but we needed a web presence and tried a hand at Kompozer. With no prior experience, or training actually managed to get something up. The site has only a single page at the moment with two external link buttons. But now we would like to turn to CS4 Web Premium as our needs have grown. I have read and watched any number of tutorials and some say, Download the Existing (Remote) site using an FTP program such as Filezilla and then edit it Locally.
I am under the impression you don't actually need to use Filezilla, or another FTP with CS4 Web Premium, as it has a built in FTP feature? Is this correct? Can someone please educate me and hold my hand and walk me through this process?
I've downloaded my entire site to my desktop from a Backup provided by the hosting site. I'm not sure if this is what I need for an edit.
The hosting site gave/gives the option to download The Entire Site, or just certain folders but being "green" I wasn't sure about this option.
OTOH, (Since I am confident all is not perfect) If I were to start from scratch can I design A New Site Locally while the Kompozer built site stays up and then simply replace the current site with the New CS4 created one? Can I configure CS4 to Publish the changes from the existing file names and settings?
For example my current site is comprised of a single folder (on my desktop) containing 6 items total; An index.html, 4 individual jpg images and a single favicon ico (which i did upload separately as Kompozer didn't want to cooperate at the time. Admittedly I'm not even sure what FTP program I resorted to in effort to get it done . . I don't have a separate folder for Images etc, Everthing is just in one folder all together at the moment.
I'm a little concerned I might delete a file that was there when I first set up the web hosting before I actually uploaded anything at all.
My web hosting provider (Blue Host) said, Where Dreamweaver Asks What Folder on The Server Do You Want To Store Your Files In? The Path you put in is Public_html and provided a link to a tutorial but it seems it is for a New Site as opposed to editing an existing one.
PS. I confess my vocabulary comes from reading the glossary of terms
A genuine and most sincere Thank You in advance for any assistance, suggestions and learned Tips.
I know we all have to start somewhere in effort to learn.. Please be gentle with me.

I would recommend leaving your company website on the server for now until you have created your new one :-)
On most servers, public_hmtl is the folder where all the files reside to make the website 'live'. That's the name of the folder I have to upload all my website files to on my server as well.
Without seeing the code produced by Kompozer, and guessing it is a WYSIGWYG editor, then I'd strongly suggest that you start from new :-) Seeing as you only have one page at the moment, it won't be a monumental task to start over.
I'll supply you with a few tutorials found at the Adobe site that will help you get started, in particular - a tut on working with DW templates., which will be the answer for you if you have more than one page but up to 10 for example, if it's going to be much larger site, then using Server Side Includes may be the way to go.
This is the one you should probably read through first:
Creating your first website – Part 1: Setting up your site and project files
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_cs4_website_pt1.html
TUTORIAL LINKS
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS42d4a1c0291fbe4e59147ede1232ff9686c-8 000.html
Using DW Templates:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/templates.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_templates.html
If you are using a Photoshop or Fireworks Comp, as a starting point then this article will be useful.
TAKING FIREWORKS COMP TO DREAMWEAVER:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html
Hope some of this helps :-)
Good luck with your project.

Help! iWeb won't open properly after I updated to Yosemite. No old websites, no workspace- nothing is displayed even when the app is open. HELP!

Help! iWeb won't open properly after I updated to Yosemite. No old websites, no workspace- nothing is displayed even when the app is open. HELP!

To open your domain file in Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with AppleScript Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script"/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"
delay 1
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You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain. Note: you may have to Control (right) - click on the app after uncompressing and select Open due to the Sandboxing feature of OS X. If you have problems with the app create your own with AppleScript Editor.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder that you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible in Lion or Mt. Lion enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and press the Return key - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For Mavericks and Yosemite go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

Can't open my old website made in sharepoint designer

why can't i load my old website from the c-drive? It's made with an old version of Sharepoint designer but it's not recognized now. I recieve a message:
Microsoft Sharpoint designer does not support the editing of non-Sharepoint sites. (translation from Dutch)
But the site is built with Sharepoint designer. Annoying.

the site has to actually be running in sharepoint. It cannot recognize it as a sharepoint site as the .NET code wont execute when you just load from the file system
Christopher Webb | MCM: SharePoint 2010 | MCSM: SharePoint Charter | MCT | http://christophermichaelwebb.com

Editing an existing InfoPath template - SharePoint 2010

Hi,
I opened an existing .xsn template form of a library (Content Type is enabled), save the form and publishing it. After published it when i open the form i cannot see the changes, only the old form pop-up. If i open the template form again i see the changes,
they are just not visible in the browser (even if i refresh the cache).
Am i missing something??

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that the infopath template not render the change after publishing when you open the form in browser.
In my environment, editing an exist template form, it will deploy to the original list and will render the change after refreshing the form page.
For a better troubleshooting, I suggest you can create a new list and editing the list form template to test if it works.
After saving and deploying the template, you can open the list via the link in pop-up dialogue like below:
Here is a detailed article for your reference:
https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-updating-existing-form-templates-e5656389-3cb7-436d-a441-73ad2f244e7c?CorrelationId=ad7a9422-59d5-4490-af17-2f192f0d2e8d&ui=en-US&rs=en-001&ad=US
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Archive old websites

Is there a way to archive an old website created in iWeb so that I can remove it from .mac and publish a new site?
Mahalo

Chuck Usher wrote:
Go to the library for you account name and look in application support/iweb.
same the "domain" file. That will be the archive of the site.
Right. You would have to make a copy of it ( Command(Apple)+d ) and then move it somewhere. The day you want to edit the old website you will have to double click the copy of the Domain file and it will show up in iWeb.
When you delete a site from IWeb it is removed from the Domain file too. That's why you make a copy of it. The copy and the non-copy are independent from each other. The new site will be in the Domain file and the old site in the copy of the domain file you made.
Regards,
Cédric

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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whenever i create a new document, i select blank page then under page type list several diffent page types. i would like to edit an existing one or create a custom one. for example, every time i create a new document i have to clear out the code and type the following...
<?php
require_once('classes/class.layout.php');
$layout = new Layout;
$layout->page_title = 'This can be different each page';
$layout->render_header();
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?>
i tried to create a template but it always wants editable regions and i don't want it to be stuck using that system. i would like the above code to be typed out every time i create a new document. is this possible? do i have to edit some kind of system file that's xml or js? i'm using CS5 and i'm on a mac.

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How to edit the existing data in the XML file from java programming.

Hi all
i am able to create XML file with the sample data as below from java programming.
i need sample code on how to edit the existing data in the XML file?
for example
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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                    <name1>Paul</name1>
                    <id1>123</id1>
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i am able to insert the data in the XML.
now i need sample code on how to modify the data in the above XML file from the java programming for only key2,name2,id2 tags only. the remaining tags data in the XML file i want to keep same data except for key2,name2,id2 which are i want to modify from java code
Regards
Sunil
[points will be always rewardable]

hi
u need a parser or validate the xml file for to read the xml file from java coding u need for this
xml4j.jar u can download this file from here
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xml4j
or we can use the SAX(simple API for XML)
some sample applications for this
http://www.java-tips.org/java-se-tips/javax.xml.parsers/how-to-read-xml-file-in-java.html
http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/java/read-xml-file-in-java-050611/page1.html
http://www.xml-training-guide.com/e-xml44.html
let me know u need any other info
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