[WEB4LIB] Re: Converting FrontPage 2000 to DreamWeaver 3

[Raymond Wood]

Tidy is an excellent utility, one which I use daily for validation, conversion
to French HTML entities etc.

There is a Windows port which integrates Tidy into a free HTML editor called
'HTML-Kit'.  This editor is something of a gem IMO.  Anyhow, I believe I recall
that it has an option to 'strip FP tags' or something to that effect.  I
haven't played with this feature but it might be worth a look.

Try a search on google.com for HTML-Kit...

Raymond

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:22:31PM -0700, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jpurce at dwp.ci.la.ca.us>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:45 PM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Converting FrontPage 2000 to DreamWeaver 3
> 
> 
> > Our new director wants us to redesign our web page using DreamWeaver 3.
> Our old
> > pages were done in FrontPage 2000, and our IT person says she's going to
> have to
> > redo them from scratch. FrontPage uses proprietary codes for graphics
> (buttons,
> > navigation bars, etc.) which DreamWeaver can't recognize. She called
> DreamWeaver
> > tech support, and they claimed it wouldn't work.
> >
> > Have any of you tried converting FrontPage to DreamWeaver? Would it be
> easier
> > just to start over?
> >
> 
> This sounds just a little silly.  FP generates HTML, no?  And DreamWeaver
> is capable of importing HTML, yes?  What exactly is "proprietary code for
> graphics"?
> 
> If DW really cannot open a file generated by FP, try this:
> 
>   lynx -dump -source http://URL/of/FPfile.html | tidy > cleanfile.html
> 
> Lynx from http://lynx.browser.org/ and Tidy from
> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
> 
> I'll be immensely suprised if Tidy can't turn FP output into something
> sensible enough for DW to open.
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
>