Can a Site in 2004 Studio Mx be imported to current version?

[chefMike]

I have an old studio Mx version of DW on an old computer and my website for my business is on there and I need to make changes..  However a new computer and I want to get a current subscription of DW but first want to know if Im going to be able to bring my site from the old dreamweaver to use in the new one and be able to edit it?  thanks

[BenPleysier · Accepted solution]

There is no Dreamweaver configuration/format in any file that belongs to a web-site. You could edit the website in any HTML editor.

In other words, yes, any version of Dreamweaver can be used to edit your site.

[Nancy OShea]

In theory, any editor can be used to edit HTML files.  However, if your site contains a lot of deprecated and/or invalid code,  you may encounter a few hiccups.  Mainly because modern Dreamweaver and browsers are less tolerant of code errors than they were a few years ago.  Best advice, check your code and fix reported errors.

Code Validation Tools

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CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

HTML - http://validator.w3.org/

HTML5 - https://validator.w3.org/nu/

JavaScript - http://www.jslint.com/

PHP -  http://phpcodechecker.com/

Nancy O.

[Jon Fritz]

An additional issue you may run into while using the latest version of DW on a site made that long ago...

Many features that were available in older versions have been completely removed will be more difficult to edit. If you used the built in functions of DWMX, and those built in functions have been removed, you will no longer have the menus and dialogues to edit that you were used to. The code will still be there and the newer version of DW won't "mess with it" but it also won't know how to edit it. You'd have to do that by hand for anything that has been removed from the program over the last decade or so.