Moving from FrontPage to Dreamweaver MX

Prepare to transfer files
1. Create a folder on your desktop or network drive. 
2. Give the folder the same name as your web (newmedia, colldev, for example).
3. Create a new subfolder and name it images. 

In FrontPage
1. Return to FrontPage.
2. Open your web in FrontPage.
3. Open the default page (or whatever page you need to edit).
4. Go to File > Save as.
5. Save the file to the folder you just created.
6. Select the images.
7. Click on the Change Folder button. Indicate that you want to save the images to your new images folder.
8. Click OK.
9. Continue the process until you have created a mirror of your web or moved all the files you need to edit.

In Dreamweaver
1. Launch Dreamweaver. In the site window, go to Site > New Site. You will be prompted by a series of dialog boxes.
2. In the Site Definition dialog box, enter the name for your site. This should be the name of the folder you created for your site and should match the name of the current FP web.
3. Check, No, I do not want to use a server technology.
4. Indicate you want to edit files locally.
5. The field, “Where on your computer would you like to store your files” should point to your folder. If it does not, click on the yellow folder icon and navigate to the folder. Click Select.
6. For “How do you connect to your local server?” choose, None.
7. Click Next and Done.
8. Your folder will open in the Site Window.
9. Double click on a file to open it or go to File > Open.
10. Your file should open in the Dreamweaver Document window.

Once you have defined a site, you can access that site by going to the Site menu and choosing Edit Sites. You will see a list of all your sites and can select the one you need to access.

Editing existing pages
1. Click on the page icon in the Document window to open the page. You can also go to File > Open.
2. You can revise and edit any pages created in FrontPage that do not contain FrontPage specific components. FrontPage Web Components must be edited in FP. Examples of FrontPage components are: forms and date stamps.
3. Do not attempt to edit forms or pages containing form elements in Dreamweaver.
4. The content of pages containing time stamps and other individual FP components may be edited in Dreamweaver. Changes to the component and its function must be made in FP.

Reformatting a page
1. Click on the page icon in the Document window to open the page. You can also go to File > Open.
2. You can reformat and edit any pages created in FrontPage that do not contain a FrontPage specific component. FrontPage Web Components must be edited in FP. Examples of FrontPage components are: forms and date stamps.
3. Do not attempt to edit forms or pages containing form elements in Dreamweaver.
4. Content of pages containing time stamps and other individual FP components may be edited in Dreamweaver. Changes to the component and its function must to made in FP

Working with the Fogler template
1. Open the template.
2. Go to File > Save as.
3. Give the template a name.
4. Edit as you would any other file.

Fogler style sheet 
Remember that the styles set in the Fogler Cascading style sheet (CSS) will not be applied to pages opened in Dreamweaver. This is because the CSS resides at the root level of the Fogler web and is applied globally to pages within that web. When you work in Dreamweaver, you will see the text in the default Times Roman typeface; headings will appear in black. To view your page with the Fogler styles applied, go to File > Preview in Browser. You will see the page displayed as it will appear on the web.

Moving page from Dreamweaver to FrontPage 
1. Close the Dreamweaver application.
2. Open Frontpage.
3. Open your web on development (File > Open web > http://development.library.umaine.edu/yourweb/)
4. Go to File > Import.
5. Navigate to the folder that contains the new or revised pages (the ones you created with Dreamweaver).
6. Import the files into your FrontPage web as you would any other file. Don’t forget the images.
7. Preview the new pages in a browser to be sure they display correctly.
8. Open your web on www.library.umaine.edu.
9. Move the pages onto the public server just as you would any other file from development.

gretchen.gfeller@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 12/21/2012