[Pro] Newbie w/ Frontpage Issues

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Hello everyone,

I have used Freeway Pro to build HTML websites from scratch, but I am wondering how I can bring in existing sites that need updated.

All of the websites have been created through Frontpage.

Can I use the FTP connection to bring those pages onto my computer, and then open and edit them through Freeway Pro?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Peace,
Jason

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Because Freeway is not an html editor there is really no way to edit an existing non-Freeway generated site. You can bring in all the resource pieces (photos, text, etc.) that make up your old sites without much trouble, but you will basically have to start over with new layouts using Freeway and without the use of the old html.

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But if you use a screenchot of an existing page as a background you should have no problem recreating your site in FW pretty quickly - provided its not huge of course.

Before you start give serious consideration to your repeating items that appear over several pages and create Masters on which to base the subsequent pages.

And have a look at http://www.softpress.com/kb/questions/40/Fast+Way+to+Recreate+a+Website

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Good points indeed. I’m a big fan of removing the “Import HTML” option in the menu’s as I have maybe seen three or so sites that translated OK through it but those were written in HTML 3.2 which is super old.

Either option would work here, but both result in you first starting over.

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Thank you all for your feedback and ideas!

While I plan on rebuilding all of these websites in the months to come, they must be updated right now.

I already have Dreamweaver and Contribute in my CS5 suite, so I am looking at which would be a better editor until I can get into Freeway Pro and start rebuilding these websites!

Thank you!
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If you just want to update for now then Dreamweaver will do the job.

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