Is it possible to move a complete web site from Microsoft Frontpage to Dreamweaver?

Question

I have a whole web site with Frontpage and I want to switch the design program to Dreamweaver...however, I do not want to lose everything. Is there a way to transfer everything I already have from Frontpage to Dreamweaver?

Answer 1

If you use FrontPage Extensions to handle things such as sending e-mail, storing form values or reading database information, you'll need to either be very careful to not harm that code when you edit your pages in Dreamweaver, or you'll want to replace the extensions methods you were using with a different method (e.g., PHP, ASP.NET, etc.).

Also, certain FrontPage behaviors, such as some mouseover effects, the marquee tag, etc. are not supported by the Dreamweaver WYSIWYG interface.

Dreamweaver also has a bad habit of mangling code that it does not understand, so any code you wrote in FrontPage may become obfuscated the first time you save the page in Dreamweaver.

Other than that, you should be fine; so, as long as you didn't use a lot of FrontPage-specific bells and whistles, you should be fine.

Answer 2

Frontpage and Dreamweaver have diferent structure in generating the HTML code.Dreamweaver have more complex code then frontpage so i think that he can support the code from Frontpage.Try with opening new project in dreamweaver and like root folder choose the folder where is you current web site.If it can't open your pages then go and search to internet some converter,i think that you will find.
greetings.

Answer 3

Yes. Simply open up your site manager in Dreamweaver and define the Front Page root directory along with the Images directory. It imports nicely.

Now - understand this: All of the Front Page directories and structure will remain intact. What I have done to some of my sites is to go through the code on each page and totally eliminate the FP crap. If you have a lot of pages, its going to take you some time. In the end it will be worth it as Dreamweaver is so much cleaner.

Answer 4

Im not sure change the domane name which is the server ... good luck