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

Tue Feb 10 08:43:38 EST 2004

Unfortunately, there's no one-stop solution for this.
It depends on how the pages themselves are assembled.
Dreamweaver has an excellent "Find & Replace" utility that can get rid of a lot of stuff, like <font> elements and all of the stuff in the document <head>.
Unfortunately, you're probably still going to be left with layout tables and other MS Proprietary bloat. You can't just do a find and replace on table elements, because their might actually be data tables in there.
Additionally, you'll want to do the job right by manually converting the text content to its most appropriate elements.  For instance, people have a bad habit of using <b> to create headings and separating list items with <br> instead of using the most appropriate <li>
Last, is removing all the bogus code-bloat created by FrontPage, such as text formatting via "&nbsp;" and special characters using the the Microsoft charset instead of UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1
If you're talking thousands of pages, that is going to be quite a task to do it right.

-Karl

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> 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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