Sometimes you have to work on websites that are already published on the web, and for which you no longer have the files. Create a local folder to contain the existing site and set up the folder as the local folder for the site. For more information, see Set up a local version of your site. Note: You must locally duplicate the entire structure of the relevant branch of the existing remote site. Set up a remote folder, using the remote access information about the existing site.
You must connect to the remote site to download the files to your computer before you can edit them. For more information, see Connect to a publishing server.
Note: When editing only one part of a site, make sure you include dependent files, such as image files. Published in: wiki - Web Design. Share on:. Looking for something? Find here! Search Search. Subscribe to our email newsletter and never miss an update.
Mail Merge with Attachments. Download Tutorials Video. Save Emails and Attachments. Make sure that you select all the files and folders so that you preserve the directory structure of your website. Otherwise, if you change things around or only selectively download files, you may find that you have a lot of broken links and broken images when you edit and publish your website in the new editor.
Once you've finished downloading your site, skip to the relevant section for your web editor. That is, if you use Dreamweaver, go to the Dreamweaver section of this tutorial. Although you can immediately edit your website with Dreamweaver, it's much better to define your site in Dreamweaver's Site Manager. After all, when you bought the editor, you paid for the sophisticated facilities available in it, so you might as well use it to the full. Using the Site Manager gives you the additional site management features available in the editor.
After starting Dreamweaver, follow the steps in chapter 1 of my Dreamweaver Tutorial to define a new site. When you get to the "Editing Files, Part 3" part of the wizard, you will be asked "Where on your computer do you want to store your files?
Do not accept the default folder given. Instead, click the folder icon to the right of the box, and look for the folder where you downloaded your website's files, and select that instead. Apart from this step, the rest are the same as those described in the Dreamweaver tutorial. To edit an existing site with either Nvu or KompoZer, just start the editor, and click the "File" menu and the "Open" item on the menu that drops down. From the dialog box that appears, navigate to the place where you saved your website's files earlier.
Choose the file you wish to edit and click the "Open" button. Your page will then appear in the editor. Note: Nvu and KompoZer have bugs in the way they handle sites using CSS which is a technology used by webmasters and web editors to specify what a website is to look like. Since your site was originally designed using a different editor, which may have better CSS-handling support, it is entirely possible that your page will not render correctly in Nvu and KompoZer.
This is normal. That is, it is probably not your mistake that caused it. There is no real workaround for this. If you're willing to work blind, you can simply make your changes in the editor, and check the same file using a real browser to make sure it appears correct. That is, while working in Nvu or KompoZer, your site may look ghastly, but if it looks fine in a variety of real web browsers on your computer, it will probably appear the same way in those browsers when it is uploaded to your site.
That's it. With the above steps, you have imported your website for use with either Dreamweaver, Nvu or KompoZer.
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