Having said that there are a few other 'gotchas' depending on whether or not they are using any of the FP components or webbots (which are nothing more than calls to precompiled scripts on the web server installed as part of the FrontPage Server Extensions). If they are using the navigation bots you must be very careful. It also depends on what version of FP they are using FP2003 usually works well with Dreamweaver DWTs but not nested DWTs (it doesn't understand nested ones).
With FP I'd usually recommend using the Content Seed CMS (http://contentseed.com), much less expensive than Contribute and can work without FP as well.
Cheryl D. Wise http://wiserways.com http://starttoweb.com - online training for web design & development
On May 9, 2005, at 4:39 PM, janet wrote:
Hello--
I have a site that was created with FrontPage. There are several pages I would like to convert to DreamWeaver so I the end client could use Contribute to update the content.
I have always been told that you cannot use FTP to publish pages to a FrontPage site as it will *break* the site. But I don't have any specific information on what exactly this will do. Is this really true? What happens with the FTP of a single page that will upset the FrontPage published pages?
I have read that you can migrate an entire site from FP to DW page by page, so there must be some way to do this. I have downloaded the migration tool from the Dreamweaver Exchange site, but there is a problem (the FrontPage upload option is not visible: I found many comments that this tool doesn't really work well). Does anyone have any experience with this situation.
This is a client site that I cannot put at risk They do not have a staging server; the files are all on my PC until I upload them to the live server.
I would like to move the entire site to DW but this will take some time to replace the FP functionality.
Any one have experience they could share with me?
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