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rab771

2005-09-15, 4:16 am

Hi, I am new to Dreamweaver. I have an existing site, and currently use
FrontPage. I want to use my new Dreamweaver program, but cant even open up my
site with it. In frontpage you just click "open site", enter 2 passwords, and
you are good to go. How does it work with Dreamweaver?
Thanks,
Jay

.: Nadia :. *TMM*

2005-09-15, 7:20 am

Is the site on your local machine or on the remote?

You need to define a site in DW for the files you want to work on locally.
Search the DW help files (F1) for 'site definition' to see how this works.

This article may also be of some help in migrating from FP to DW.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dr...ge_to_dwmx.html

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"rab771" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dgamok$6ek$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi, I am new to Dreamweaver. I have an existing site, and currently use
> FrontPage. I want to use my new Dreamweaver program, but cant even open up
> my
> site with it. In frontpage you just click "open site", enter 2 passwords,
> and
> you are good to go. How does it work with Dreamweaver?
> Thanks,
> Jay
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-09-15, 7:19 pm

Will this site ever be touched by FP again? If not, then do this -

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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"rab771" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dgamok$6ek$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi, I am new to Dreamweaver. I have an existing site, and currently use
> FrontPage. I want to use my new Dreamweaver program, but cant even open up
> my
> site with it. In frontpage you just click "open site", enter 2 passwords,
> and
> you are good to go. How does it work with Dreamweaver?
> Thanks,
> Jay
>