Use with existing site
Neil Harnett
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I bought RapidWeaver to replace Dreamweaver (which I have grown to despise) and am concerned that I cannot work with an existing site that I already have published. I hired a webmaster to re-build my site in CSS but I have been adding updates and I now need to add a photo gallery page. Is there someway I can open my existing site in Rapid Weaver? If not than it won't be any help to me. I was surprised I couldn't open an existing html page with it. Thank you - Neil.
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2 Posted by David Nackman on 08 Feb, 2010 01:41 AM
This is not an answer, but a related question to the above -- I am taking over working on an existing site that was built in RapidWeaver. I have downloaded all the site's files from the server, but I don't have the RW project file. Can I import the site files into a new project to recreate the existing site?
3 Posted by kh1248 on 08 Feb, 2010 02:12 AM
Same question for me. I have an existing page from an Iweb site that I cannot recreate but I have the html files.
Attached screen shot of list of files.
Support Staff 4 Posted by Luke Hefson on 08 Feb, 2010 10:20 AM
Hi guys,
Thanks for your messages. Unfortunately RapidWeaver does not support live website migration (or import) as it is incredibly difficult to reverse-engineer websites to fit RapidWeaver. The only way that you could move your site to RapidWeaver would be to choose a theme that you feel best represents your original site and copy and paste the content from your live site into your new RapidWeaver project.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Luke
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5 Posted by Neil Harnett on 08 Feb, 2010 06:01 PM
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6 Posted by Neil Harnett on 08 Feb, 2010 06:03 PM
Luke, I expected you to say that but I don't quite understand why there would have to be any 'reverse engineering'. HTML & CSS codes are the same no matter where they are written and I don't see why Rapidweaver couldn't be made to open such files from a live or local site and through the process RW would create a new template. I expect you would expand your user base substantially if you did this. Too bad.
Support Staff 7 Posted by Luke Hefson on 09 Feb, 2010 11:16 AM
Hi Neil,
Thanks for the additional comments - I've passed them onto our developers. Currently, due to the 'sandwich' format of RapidWeaver projects this would be a much more complex feature to implement that it may seem. However, our developers are certainly looking into the possibility of this feature sometime in the future.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Luke
-- Luke Hefson
Support & QA, Realmac Software
Our support team are in the office between 9am and 5pm UK time, Monday to Friday, and we aim to answer all requests within one business day.
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