|
| |
|
|
tomd
Posts: 9
Joined: 9/18/2007
Status: offline
 |
Help with large conversion to Expression - 9/18/2007 7:44:03
I have a very large website (over 100 pages of content) that I created using Frontpage and html. Lot's of inconsistencies between pages.
I am converting the entire site to Expression/CSS. My content sometimes needs two column layouts and three column layouts. But both layout will have the same masthead, left side navigation and footers.
Question 1. I was planning on creating two separate DWTs, one for the two column layout and one for the three column layout. Then both DWTs would use the same included content for the masthead, left side navigation and footers. Is that a good way to do it?
Question 2: Is there an easy or preferred way to get my 100 pages of existing content over to Expression? If I copy and paste the html for a page from Frontpage to Expression I get a big mess of the old html tags. So what I have been doing is copying the content from old, then pasting it into Expression as unformatted text, then reformatting it with my css. Is that the easiest way of converting.
Thanks.
|
|
|
|
coreybryant
Posts: 2495
Joined: 3/17/2002
From: Castle Rock CO USA
Status: online
|
RE: Help with large conversion to Expression - 9/18/2007 9:05:11
You could also use file includes which might be easier. And then have two style sheets.
You could maybe copy the content via HTML source and paste it into HTML source
_____________________________
Corey R. Bryant
Merchant Accounts | Toll Free Numbers | Expression Web Blog
| |
|
|
|
caz
Posts: 3589
Joined: 10/10/2001
From: Somewhere south of Chester, UK
Status: offline
|
RE: Help with large conversion to Expression - 9/18/2007 11:19:07
As corey said includes would be a much better way to go. I had to do something similar when I moved a site from FP tables to CSS. After sorting the includes I then copied and pasted the content pages into Notetab Light which I used to clean out all the formatting but preserving urls. As I was also switching to xhtml I used it do do the preliminary coding in xhtml. Then I got onto the big step of building the stylesheets.
It was a long job but I learnt so much doing it - not least about valid coding!
_____________________________
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will dance, or more on your keyboard.
Cheshire cat. www.doracat.co.uk
I remember when it took less than 4hrs to fly across the Atlantic.
| |
|
|
|
tomd
Posts: 9
Joined: 9/18/2007
Status: offline
|
RE: Help with large conversion to Expression - 9/19/2007 16:14:54
Thanks for the tips.
The conversion is going to very time consuming. My content was very extension and filled with pictures, charts and graphs. My existing site had a layout based on table, while the new on is a css layout.
I am having some luck by taking the old content and stripping everything but the <p> and <h_> tags. And then pasting it in a dwt for the new. Then copying and pasting charts and photos where I want them.
If I have free time to re-do a couple of pages a day. I should be done in a month or so.
| |
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts
|
|
|
Printable Version 
The slowest part of the job was doing the stylesheets for the IE conditionals.
