[Sigia-l] Converting static pages in a large intranet site to CMS

[Stew Dean]

Solutions are always a matter of taste but from my view...

Sounds like a job for Dreamweaver. Using it you can easily remove all font 
tags and, depending how variable the HTML is, insert tags to allow the 
whole site to be templated. Templates are a useful feature of Dreamweaver. 
I won't pretend that Dreamweaver can replace a well created CMS but it can 
be a great tool in the preparation of template for a CMS. Having said that 
with the correct work flow a Dreamweaver/Contribute based set up can work 
better than products like Interwoven teamsite and has support for the 
common back end environments built in.  The correct workflow makes a huge 
difference and can be scoped independent of any particular CMS.

I would also recommend not using Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 
although I know how bad management decisions can rail road you into a bad 
solution.  I have worked on aspects Microsoft's UK site and they do not use 
their own product to manage their sites as far as I know.

Stewart Dean


At 04:17 10/02/2004, Conal Tuohy wrote:
>In a current job, we are converting a static public website to use a CMS. 
>We've had people annotating the HTML pages (which were produced using a 
>variety of different HTML editors over a long period of time) to indicate 
>what is "content", by adding class="content" to the appropriate elements. 
>We're using some simple XSLT, running in Apache Cocoon, to extract the 
>content and clean it up (removing <font> tags, etc). There's still going 
>to be a lot of work though.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vic Case [mailto:viccase at visionspan.com]
> >
> > I'm on a project to convert thousands of intranet site pages (done in
> > FrontPage) to Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS).
> > Naturally, we'd
> > like to minimize the manual labor in converting these pages.
> > Does anyone
> > have any tips or guidance to share about such a conversion effort?
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