Trying to download website

I am a novice , and i am switching from front page to dreamweaver, please advise how i download my website? i have a 30 day free trial of dreamweaver.

Open DW. Press F1. Read the help about how to create and define a site
(local and remote). Do it. Connect to the site, and GET all the files.

If you wanted to convert your site from FP to DW, this is how I would do
it....

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.


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"luludog" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am a novice , and i am switching from front page to dreamweaver, please
advise how i download my website? i have a 30 day free trial of dreamweaver.

: 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.

I just did a "re-do" of a FP site for a client and unfortunately everything
I cut and pasted still had a bunch of BS Microsoft formatting code. I had to
copy from the original page, paste into Notepad to remove all formatting,
and then paste into DWMX and apply my own styles, etc.

Also, if you're replacing an existing site, you don't want to rename the
pages or the search engine links will be dead.

just my 2 cents :-)

MarionJ

Yep. Hiya Marion!

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

: 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.

I just did a "re-do" of a FP site for a client and unfortunately
everything
I cut and pasted still had a bunch of BS Microsoft formatting code. I had
to
copy from the original page, paste into Notepad to remove all formatting,
and then paste into DWMX and apply my own styles, etc.

Also, if you're replacing an existing site, you don't want to rename the
pages or the search engine links will be dead.

just my 2 cents :-)

MarionJ

Hi there! Always nice to hear from you Murray.

You're so good at giving great, thorough answers, I don't often add my 2
cents, but since I just did a FP overhaul and went live with it *yesterday*
it was fresh in my mind. And nowadays I have to take advantage of moments
like that. Cause in a day or so I'll forget it all ;-)

MJ

Forget what? 8)

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

Hi there! Always nice to hear from you Murray.

You're so good at giving great, thorough answers, I don't often add my 2
cents, but since I just did a FP overhaul and went live with it
*yesterday*
it was fresh in my mind. And nowadays I have to take advantage of moments
like that. Cause in a day or so I'll forget it all ;-)

MJ