Re: Cleanup Front Page Extension

Marion:

I doubt that it will save you any time. Here's how I would handle the
conversion.

1. I'd download the remote site to a location on my hard drive. This will
pick up all the pages *after* webbot action so that shared borders and all
are already present. This will *not* pick up any of the server code, but
you are going to have to rebuild that anyhow.
2. I'd define a DW site that points to the root of the FP site you just
downloaded.
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.

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"Marion J" <marionjSENDMENOSPAM (AT) speakeasy (DOT) net> wrote

I'm trying to download this extension from Macromedia's site and keep
getting this error message: "The requested site is either unavailable or
cannot be found."

Anyone have a copy of this one? I have a new client with an existing FP
site
that I am going to convert to DWMX and I thought this extension might save
me some time.

thanks!

MarionJ