Importing my existing website

I recently switched from the PC world to the Mac. I developed a website using Frontpage, and now I would like to revise it using iWeb. Is there a way to import the website into iWeb so I can work on it and republish it? (From some other posts on the discussion forum, I'm assuming the answer is "no.")
Thanks.
New Mac user

No - you can't do this.
iWeb is not even capable of importing its own published files.
The application stores your website data in a domain.sites2 file located in Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb.
Once you have started your website in iWeb, make sure you have a backup of this file and update it every time you make changes to your site.

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>> I do not know where the site files are. They are on my initial Mac laptop
>> computer, and I use Hostway as my server.
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Log-in to your Remote Server and GET the site files using DW or your favorite
FTP application (Cute, Filezilla, WS_ftp, etc....)
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Which version of DW did you have before?
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I am working with a group of professionals and we want to update the existing web site. Is there a tool that will grab the existing website that will save it locally so that I can modify and massage it using iWeb.
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