Converting from FP to DW

How is the easiest and quickest way to convert my website from FP to DW? Also
I have some small JAVA script codes on some these pages if that makes any
difference. Once this conversion happens, I would like to make any changes to
the HTML pages directly on the web server, instead of uploading the files from
my hard drive. Any suggestions would be helpful.

ronusa wrote:

How is the easiest and quickest way to convert my website from FP
to DW? Also I have some small JAVA script codes on some these pages
if that makes any difference. Once this conversion happens, I would
like to make any changes to the HTML pages directly on the web
server, instead of uploading the files from my hard drive. Any
suggestions would be helpful.

As Murray would say, were he not on vacation while the rest of us are
holding down his proverbial fort:

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 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. This will also pick up all of the server script
(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, to connect and download
using http protocols. Doing it this way will *not* retrieve any of your
server-script code. You will have to recreate that in Dreamweaver).

3. I'd create a DW template for the pages that captures the "shared border"
effect.
4. I'd copy and paste content from the FP pages to the template child pages
and then save the new child pages with an easily identifiable nomenclature
that is distinct from what was used on the FP site.
5. When the basic site is completed, I'd upload to some staging area, and
by using the browser, I'd verify that the site (as it exists remotely) is
complete.
6. Then I'd create a new DW site in a new location on the hard drive,
connect to and download all the files from the staging site.

You now have a complete site (minus any of the FP extension server-side
code) that has no FP footprint.