It's gonna be a very loooooooooooooong weekend. And it won't be a two-day
weekend ;-)
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Tom Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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|> I've never used Dreamweaver, don't know html or css but have used FP for
| > years. Currently using 2003.
|
| You need to start reading about HTML first, and then CSS. Without a basic
| understanding of those technologies, Dreamweaver will be a journey from
one
| mysterious problem to another, since it removes all of the "wizard cloaks'
| that are present in FP.
|
| > What kind of problems should I expect when I try to import fp pages into
| > dreamweaver to work on them? Will my photogallery work? Shared
borders?
|
| For sure, your shared borders will no longer work, and perhaps your
| photogallery, depending on what you have used. Nothing that uses FP SE's
| will work - you will need to find ways to re-implement those in DW. In
| addition, FP themes will not work, either. Here's what I tell people on
the
| DW forum when they want to work on an FP site ================
|
| 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.
|
|
| --
| Murray
| --------------
| MVP FrontPage
|
|
| | > Can no longer publish our fp web to Linux server so boss says get
| > Dreamweaver......oh yeah and can you have everything published by
Monday.
| >
| > I've never used Dreamweaver, don't know html or css but have used FP for
| > years. Currently using 2003.
| >
| > What kind of problems should I expect when I try to import fp pages into
| > dreamweaver to work on them? Will my photogallery work? Shared
borders?
| >
| > It's gonna be a long weekend.
|
|
And that's the essence right there.