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06.04.2007 at 03:32PM PDT, ID: 22612445
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I want to import a website into Dreamweaver cs3

Asked by andymack in FrontPage-Expressions, Macromedia Dreamweaver

Tags: dreamweaver, import, website, cs3

How bout this one. We have a website it is

www.gotdebt.org

We would like to gain control over our website because our web masters over there won't let us do anything with it. I've asked them to send me the website on disk..or just get me ftp access.and nothing......My question is...I have Dreamweaver CS3...it came with our Adobe Premiere.....how do I import my entire site into dreamweaver? Can this be done? I keep hearing from those guys....No you can't have your site not import it.......it doesn't work that way.....whatever..I say we can. So any help would be good. thanks.Start Free Trial
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06.04.2007 at 03:49PM PDT, ID: 19212835
jason1178:
Hi andymack,

If for some reason you can't prove that you own the domain name, you're in a lot of trouble.

You need FTP access to truly import a site, so if your ISP is preventing you from doing this, you need to do step 1 immediately:

1) If that is your site and your domain name, get a lawyer to write a letter to the webmasters demanding the return of your property and threaten a lawsuit if they don't immediately comply.  Be prepared to prove that the site and domain are yours.

If the above doesn't work, what you need to do is point the domain name to a new ISP and move the site over there.  The following two steps will work to download the basics of your site (HTML, graphics) but will not grab any server-side scripting that may be there.

2)  While you can go through the site page by page and save the pages locally and edit them with DW, without access to the domain name, you can't point it to a new ISP and new site.

3) There is software that will spider a site and save all elements locally.  Google for "site spider software" to get some links.  Running a spider will copy as much of your site that is public but will not get any PHP or ASP code.  Same limitation as #2 applies.

FWIW, there is no reason why your ISP shouldn't allow FTP access to your site unless you signed some sort of asinine agreement.
 
06.04.2007 at 03:56PM PDT, ID: 19212887
andymack:
Well the thing is....we are their cash cow.....if we want to change one thing on our site it costs us a bundle....see below the email thread between me and the web guy..he's no help.

From: Chris Angelov Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:42 PM
To: Andy Mack
Subject: re[4]: Hey Chris it's me andy


Hi Andy,
You can use a site mirroring tool and generate you an HTML, but there is nothing that I can send you in HTML.

Thanks,

Chris Angelov

----------------------- Original Message -----------------------

From: "Andy Mack" <user@mydomain.com>
To: "Chris Angelov"
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:33:56 -0700
Subject: RE: re[2]: Hey Chris it's me andy


oh...so there's no way to get our website over to us?



Andy Mack
Director of Technology
CCCS of Santa Clara and Ventura County
Ph - 805-xxx-xxxx
Fx - 805-xxx-xxxx
website - wwww.mydomain.com
backup email address - username@yahoo.com




From: Chris Angelov [
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:33 PM
To: Andy Mack
Subject: re[2]: Hey Chris it's me andy


Hi Andy,

The content is into the database and the pages are broken into different pieces. You won't be able to do that.

Thanks,

Chris Angelov

From: "Andy Mack" <user@mydomain.com>
To: "Chris Angelov" <user@theirdomain.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:26:26 -0700
Subject: RE: Hey Chris it's me andy


right...I just want to connect to the site via ftp..and using dreamweaver...pull the files into our dreamweaver....



Andy Mack
Director of Technology
CCCS of Santa Clara and Ventura County
Ph - 805-xxx-xxxx
Fx - 805-xxx-xxxx
website - wwww.mydomain.com
backup email address - username@yahoo.com




From: Chris Angelov
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:23 PM
To: Andy Mack
Subject: re: Hey Chris it's me andy


Hi Andy,

Unfortunately that's not possible. The site doesn't have HTML. All the information is stored in a CMS system and you cannot just download the HTML pages to do any kind of changes.

Thanks,

Chris Angelov

----------------------- Original Message -----------------------

From: "Andy Mack" <user@mydomain.com>
To: "Chris Angelov" <user@theirdomain.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:20:41 -0700
Subject: Hey Chris it's me andy


I"m back and ready to go......I have a question for you.....I would like to import our website in dreamweaver....so I need the info noted below...so I can connect to it via ftp.. or rds.......whichever works better let me know....thanks Chris

 
06.04.2007 at 04:05PM PDT, ID: 19212949
jason1178:
Okay, that makes sense.  This is not good for you.

If the developers used a Content Management System, then there really aren't separate pages.  Everything is generated from a database and inserted into a single page template.  You should ask them for the MySQL data dump of your site and ask them if they are using a commercial CMS package like Joomla.  It might be possible (although difficult) to recreate the site that way.

IF this is a CMS and you want to make changes, they should be able to create a user ID for you that can change content.  I'm unsure why they won't allow this.

If you are fed up with all of it, I suggest following the advice above and downloading your site page by page using a site spider (he calls it site mirroring) and you will end up with a static version of the site that you can then edit in Dreamweaver.

Just FYI, please don't post email addresses here.  I'll have a mod remove them from above
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