Transfer From Homestead

[Guest]

Hello All,

First off, I'll admit I'm a "newbie"! With that said, I desperately need some assistance. I have been using Homestead as my host and using their Sitebuilder software to build one of my websites. I now realize that Homestead will be unable to meet my needs as far as having the capability to use scripts that will be necessary.

My question is, has anyone migrated a site off of Homestead into FTP? Or have an idea the steps needed to do so. I think I have the general concept (copy/paste), but the files stored on my PC include html generated by Homestead as well, and this is incompatible with FTP. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I take full responsibility, I was an idiot for getting so far into my site without first investigating if Homestead would be able to handle my needs, I am willing to "start again", but am looking for, at least, an easy way to accomplish this. Please, Please, help.........

Thanks again to all,
Rex

 

[Jim Buyens]

Howdy.

I'm not familiar with Homestead, but if you can open the
site by FTP and see al your files, then just copy the
entire fodler tree into a folder on your disk and then
open tht folder as a FrontPage Web site.

Otherwise, start FrontPage, choose Import form the File
menu, click From Site, and then specify your site's URL.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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-----Original Message-----
Hello All,

First off, I'll admit I'm a "newbie"! With that said, I

desperately need some assistance. I have been using
Homestead as my host and using their Sitebuilder software
to build one of my websites. I now realize that
Homestead will be unable to meet my needs as far as
having the capability to use scripts that will be
necessary.

My question is, has anyone migrated a site off of

Homestead into FTP? Or have an idea the steps needed to
do so. I think I have the general concept (copy/paste),
but the files stored on my PC include html generated by
Homestead as well, and this is incompatible with FTP.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I take full responsibility, I was an idiot for getting

so far into my site without first investigating if
Homestead would be able to handle my needs, I am willing
to "start again", but am looking for, at least, an easy
way to accomplish this. Please, Please, help.........

 

[Guest]

Jim,
Thanks for the reply. Yes I'm able to do what you mentioned. What concerns me is the html that is included from Homestead. It embeds it's own html, presumably to avoid folks like myself from migrating. Do you think this will have any affct on the actual published pages. I have been experimenting with Frontpage and I am able to import the file along with all elemnts of the page. Again, any advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Thnaks,
Rex

 

[Bob Lehmann]

So, why don't you just delete the HTML thatconcerns you?

Bob Lehmann

Jim,
Thanks for the reply. Yes I'm able to do what you mentioned. What

concerns me is the html that is included from Homestead. It embeds it's own
html, presumably to avoid folks like myself from migrating. Do you think
this will have any affct on the actual published pages. I have been
experimenting with Frontpage and I am able to import the file along with all
elemnts of the page. Again, any advice anyone has would be greatly
appreciated.

 

[Mike]

I was a member at Homestead too, but they went way too expencive. The new
sitebuilder is crap etc. You can try to contact the helpdesk. They always
were very helpfull to me. Just tell them you want to work on your site with
your own editor and ask how to solve the code issue. Maybe you are lucky and
the can provide an answer, but otherwise I think you must 'just' rebuild the
site.

Hello All,

First off, I'll admit I'm a "newbie"! With that said, I desperately need

some assistance. I have been using Homestead as my host and using their
Sitebuilder software to build one of my websites. I now realize that
Homestead will be unable to meet my needs as far as having the capability to
use scripts that will be necessary.

My question is, has anyone migrated a site off of Homestead into FTP? Or

have an idea the steps needed to do so. I think I have the general concept
(copy/paste), but the files stored on my PC include html generated by
Homestead as well, and this is incompatible with FTP. Any assistance would
be greatly appreciated.

I take full responsibility, I was an idiot for getting so far into my site

without first investigating if Homestead would be able to handle my needs, I
am willing to "start again", but am looking for, at least, an easy way to
accomplish this. Please, Please, help.........

 

[Jim Buyens]

If you want to do this without Homestead, then at some time you'll
need to learn a bit more about HTML. And from the look of things, that
time may be now. Try it, test it, and fix it as required.

Also, you may want to try browsing http://groups.google.com and
searching for

homestead frontpage group:microsoft.public.*

The results will contain the experiences, problems, and advice
received by others in your situation.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------

 

[Ripper]

"Try it, test it, and fix it as required."

I agree. Copy the entire site to your new destination. Open any page in a
browser of your choice and see what's not working that worked at Homestead.
You'll know almost immediately what needs to be fixed. I don't know if
Homestead adds banners and/or pop-ups, but those will still be there even
though you aren't on Homestead anymore. There may be some hidden stuff, but
after you get more familiar with working in HTML you'll know what can go and
what can stay. Be safe, make a copy of each page before you remove/alter
stuff. Make your changes on the copy if your site is live already, this way
if you make a major mistake, you can delete the entire page and start again
with a new copy. You can't hurt anything so go for it. Just a note, you
probably won't be able to tell what's missing on a local copy, you'll
probably have to publish the site to your new host, then test it. You can
edit live on the server (this is how I did everything up till this point,
now I see FP03 has a feature similar to Dreamweaver that allows you to
synchronize your local and remote copies, I haven't used it yet, but I
will).

If you want to do this without Homestead, then at some time you'll
need to learn a bit more about HTML. And from the look of things, that
time may be now. Try it, test it, and fix it as required.

Also, you may want to try browsing http://groups.google.com and
searching for

homestead frontpage group:microsoft.public.*

The results will contain the experiences, problems, and advice
received by others in your situation.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*----------------------------------------------------
|\---------------------------------------------------
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
||---------------------------------------------------
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
|/---------------------------------------------------
*----------------------------------------------------



Rex <[email protected]> wrote in message

the crap Homestead puts in is. Is there a concern if the Homestead code is
left in, will this conflict with new hosts/servers. I've removed any
"elements" that I used by homestead, i.e, counters, guestbooks, etc.