Posted by Jose on 04/22/06 02:21

> I started out with
> a badly botched up site and completely rewrote it using FrontPage 2003.

So now its excellently botched up. :)

Front Page is to be avoided at all costs. It requires you and all
future webmasters to use front page forever more, it mungs your code
(what goes on the site is very different from what FP tells you is
there), it does not permit you to update the site from any other than a
FrontPage computer with a copy of your entire site on its disk, and it
has a list of evils too long to go into.

A Front Page site cannot be converted to a regular website without the
sacrifice of three chickens and the webmaster.

If you must use a WYSIWIG editor, try Netscape Composer or any of a
number of other tools that others will suggest. They at least let you
use ordinary FTP to update the site from anywhere.

Rant aside, your first job is to create a new site with much the same
content, using non-FrontPage and non-MicrosoftWord products. You will
probably have to copy and paste, passing the text through Notepad first
to strip the formatting and then redo the codes correctly. It's a pain,
but it's the only way I've found that works.

Jose
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