taking over a site not built in front page

[Guest]

I have been asked to take over a site that was not built with Front page and
is hosted on a unix server, so no FP extensions. What is the best way to
proceed:
1. once given access to the site should I try to open and then publish to my
hard drive so I have a copy, will this mess up the existing site? I have
tried doing that now and it will not let me so I used the import web feature
and it gave me the site but not the images, they seem to have some kind of
protection on them?
2. Do I have to turn this into a front page site??
3. to make changes can I use the regular fp publishing feature but put in
ftp instead of http in the address to publish to?
4. I do not forsee using any of the front page features that would require
extensions...here is the site www.sculptureinthepark.org it has a lot of
jave script on the map and artist page....any problems here???

any help in unforseen problems would be appreciated

 

[Ronx]

You cannot open a web site with FrontPage unless extensions are
installed on the site.

If there are no FrontPage extensions on the site, use an FTP client
(cuteFTP, WS-FTP etc.) to download the complete web site to a folder on
your PC.
Then in FrontPage use File->Open Site and browse to the folder.
FrontPage will ask to convert the folder to a website - agree.

When finished editing, either File->Publish to the server using the FTP
option, or upload using the FTP client. Do not upload and files or
folders with names starting with _vti_ Uploading these will not harm
the site in any way (unless you install extensions), but they are not
required. FrontPage will never upload these files.

Import will not download any file unless it is directly linked to the
Home page - a direct link takes the form
<a href="pagename.htm">...</a>, <img src="image.jpg">, <link
rel="stylesheet....>. Links created by scripting of any form are not
direct links in this context.

 

[Larry]

For handling non-FrontPage sites you may find it better to use Dreamweaver.
I handles file transfers live|remote easily and has lots of features. I use
it on all non-FrontPage sites I manage.