importing iWeb to DW cs5

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I need to import and redeploy an old site (2011 origin) into Dreamweaver. I have downloaded the pages and assets, without any problem. In Design View in DW, all I could see was the footer and outlines of divs. None of the text, nav, nor images

After a suggestion, I saved a page from the website using Chrome and then Firefox.

The Chrome-saved page was better in DW, although it still does not display normally.  It looks normal in Safari.

The Firefox-saved page was bad in DW (same as the FTP-download page), showing only a div for the body, and one for the footer.  It looks normal in Safari.

Any idea about how to fix this?

[Jon Fritz]

Make sure you have a Site Definiton set up: GS-01: Defining a new site

DW doesn't like working with resources that aren't within a defined site. To me, it looks like you have the pages, and probably have the media content as well, but haven't set up a site so DW isn't displaying any images.

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Hi Jon,

Actually I DID make a new site in DW before I looked at the pages. The screenshot here is a 25% view of the Chrome page. Ideas?

[Nancy OShea]

Do you have all the supporting assets -- images, scripts, css, etc...?

Nancy

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Yes, everything that is on the existing website. I've already downloaded it all.

The supporting assets are in adjacent folders, called *page_files. Inside are the css, js, and pngs.

[Nancy OShea]

Run the code through validation.  If you get a ridiculous number of errors, start over.  It will take far less time to build a clean new site than it will to try and repair a badly broken one.

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

     HTML - http://validator.w3.org/

In all likleyhood, you want your site to be responsive for mobile and tablet devices anyway.

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Yeah, I know. But I figured it would be useful to redeploy an unresponsive one quickly, and then write all the new css, breakpoints, etc.

[Jon Fritz]

Without seeing the code, it's all guesswork. Could you post a link to one of your pages?

It may be as Nancy suggests, and a redesign is in order.

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http://www.freisingerchamberorchestra.org/home.html

[Nancy OShea]

In general, iWeb (now discontinued) was aimed at non-coders and novices.  The code it generated was not ideal and most unpleasant to work with in ordinary HTML editors.  So it doesn't surprise me that your iWeb site is not displaying correctly in DW.

What's the URL to your online site?

We can tell a lot from looking at the source code about whether or not this will fly in Dreamweaver.   My guess is not.  You'll most likely need to rebuild your site.

I think EverWeb -- an iWeb alternative - also called for rebuilding the site with new tools.

iWeb Alternative - Going From iWeb To EverWeb

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Ugh, I was afraid of that. Here's the URL: http://www.freisingerchamberorchestra.org

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SO Nancy I was wondering, after looking at the pages I saved directly out of Chrome, do you think that those pages are presenting code that is good enough for retooling? Or will I have to start from scratch?