Migrating from FrontPage to Dreamweaver
We strongly suggest you should to download the PDF file "Making the leap from FrontPage to Dreamweaver"(768kb). This is a free documentation created by Macromedia
specifically designed to ease the transition from FrontPage to Dreamweaver. You should also download the free "FrontPage Migration Kit" extension pack for Dreamweaver.
These following steps are also very helpful:
- Sometimes formatting may go berserk even for such simple things as the
background color depending on how you (and FP) designed the web in the first place.
You can't do much about that, except some "search and replace" to get rid of the junk,
make yourself a nice template, and apply it to all your nicely cleaned pages. This chore
can be simplified using DW's Command > Clean Up HTML (and Command > Clean Up Word HTML
if you used MS Word to create the page) to automatically cleanup non-Dreamweaver HTML
content, redundant tags, etc. Nevertheless, it's always a good idea to look at the HTML
afterwards to make sure it's squeaky clean. Also, replace all form handlers, any hit
counters and other server side stuff with your own scripts.
- FP seems to create a myriad of sub directories where all the formatting
data/extensions must be kept. Those extra folders are not necessary. Anything
beginning with _vti can be safely deleted IF you will NOT depend on FP code
at all for functionality. Personally, I like to scrape my web space clean,
leaving it Irish-Spring-fresh, before uploading any new or edited content.
Basically, the only folders you need within /public_html/ are /errorpages/ and
/cgi_bin/ (if you have it). The rest can be safely deleted IF you are not
going to use FrontPage again.
Design Notes:
The control panel of your Web Prime account has an option
that allows you to delete all of the FrontPage extensions (including the .htaccess files) safely.
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- There is no "importing" feature per se with DW. Just copy the files into
your root folder and define
a site. Everything will be peachy-keen.
For more general (and extremely useful) advice on how to migrate to Dreamweaver,
click here.
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