If you want to use FrontPage to maintain and update a Web site that was originally assembled using a different program or coded by hand, you must first import that site into FrontPage. The easiest way to accomplish this task is by using the Import Web Wizard, a handy tool that does most of the work for you.
To import a Web site into FrontPage, follow these steps:
1. With FrontPage running, choose File-->
New-->Page or Web.
The Task Pane appears.
2. In the New from Template section of the Task Pane, click Web Site Templates.
The Web Site Templates dialog box appears.
3. In the dialog box's Web Sites area, click Import Web Wizard.
4. In the Specify the Location of the New Web list box, enter the location of the new Web site, or click Browse to choose a location from a folder list.
5. After you've chosen the Web site's location, in the Web Site Templates dialog box, click OK.
The dialog box closes. After a brief pause, the Import Web Wizard — Choose Source dialog box appears. Here, you specify the location of the Web site that you want to import. The site's files may be stored in a folder on your computer or local network, or the site may already be published on the World Wide Web.
6. In the dialog box, specify the current location of the Web site you want to import.
If the Web site is stored on your computer or local network, click the radio button marked From a Source Directory of Files on a Local Computer or Network, and then type the folder's path in the Location text box.
If you don't know the folder's location offhand, click Browse to choose from a list of folders on your computer or network. If you want the Import Web Wizard to import the files stored in folders inside the folder you specified, select the Include Subfolders check box.
If the site is already live on the World Wide Web, click the From a World Wide Web Site radio button and then, in the Location text box, enter the site's Web address.
 | If you're about to import a site from the World Wide Web, you must activate your Internet connection. |
7. Click Next.
The next dialog box that appears depends on the location of the Web site you're importing.
If the site's files are stored on your computer or local network, the Import Web Wizard — Edit File List dialog box appears, listing all the files contained in the source folder you specified. This dialog box enables you to exclude files you don't want to import along with the rest of your Web site. To do so, click the names of the files you don't want to import and then click Exclude. To start over with a fresh file list, click Refresh.
If the site is located on the World Wide Web, the Import Web Wizard — Choose Download Amount dialog box appears. This dialog box enables you to control how much of the Web site you want FrontPage to download and import. To limit the levels of subfolders FrontPage imports, select the Limit to This Page Plus check box and, in the accompanying text box, enter the number of levels. To limit the amount of total file space taken up by the downloaded files, select the Limit To check box and, in the accompanying text box, enter a number of kilobytes. To tell FrontPage to import only the site's Web pages and image files, select the Limit to Text and Image Files check box.
8. Click Next.
The Import Web Wizard — Finish dialog box appears, congratulating you on a job well done. If you want to double-check your choices, click the Back button; otherwise. . .
9. Click Finish.
The Import Web Wizard performs its magic and, in a moment, your Web site — now a full-fledged FrontPage Web site — appears in FrontPage. If another Web site is already open in FrontPage when you import a new Web site, the new Web site appears in a new FrontPage window.
Your Web site is now poised for a FrontPage makeover.
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