How do I import websites to Dreamweaver

[Nautica]

how do I import a website to dreamweaver to learn about it?

Edited September 16, 2003 by Nautica

[perochan]

please be more specific.

like you want to copy from a exsiting page or from a program or what?

[Joel]

Edited for CAPS. :angry:

Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.

[perochan]

Edited for CAPS.  :angry:

huh??

[Nautica]

Edited for CAPS. :angry:

Hey dude chill, Ive been here since 01, and made a mistake, typing fast, my appoligies for that ok :rolleyes:

and yeah, Im trying to import an entire flash website to dreamweaver mx

ie: http://www.jimbrandenburg.com/flash/index_flash.html

thanks

[jackwanders]

You want to take a website from the internet and import it into Dreamweaver?

Well, I'll give you the run through, but I honestly hope you're not planning on ripping someone else's work by doing this.

First off, create a new site in Dreamweaver. Once you do, you'll have a folder for the site. It'll be empty. Next, you'll need some kind of software to download web sites. Image Downloader should do the job for Windows, and Web Grabber works for Mac. Go to the site you want to import and download it via the instructions of the program you're using. Make sure to download the contents of the site to the folder created back when you made that new site in Dreamweaver. Now go back to Dreamweaver and open up your site. Voila.

Downloading other sites is fine, for learning how certain things are done in HTML and such, but please...don't copy someone else's work wholesale. It's just plain wrong.

[Nautica]

You want to take a website from the internet and import it into Dreamweaver?

Well, I'll give you the run through, but I honestly hope you're not planning on ripping someone else's work by doing this.

First off, create a new site in Dreamweaver. Once you do, you'll have a folder for the site. It'll be empty. Next, you'll need some kind of software to download web sites. Image Downloader should do the job for Windows, and Web Grabber works for Mac. Go to the site you want to import and download it via the instructions of the program you're using. Make sure to download the contents of the site to the folder created back when you made that new site in Dreamweaver. Now go back to Dreamweaver and open up your site. Voila.

Downloading other sites is fine, for learning how certain things are done in HTML and such, but please...don't copy someone else's work wholesale. It's just plain wrong.

Trust me, I just want to learn how the guy built certain objects / things in his site.

I would never do that to him, he is the GOD of photography, and has my utmost respect

BTW thanks for the help

[Joel]

Hey dude chill, Ive been here since 01, and made a mistake, typing fast, my appoligies for that ok :rolleyes:

1) Says you joined in '02 but that's not important

2) You typed the whole first line of the thread title in caps, then typed the description in small letters. At some point you DID realise your error. ;)

Nobody's stressing, except the emoticon. :D

[mrogers]

Edited for CAPS.  :angry:

Hey dude chill, Ive been here since 01, and made a mistake, typing fast, my appoligies for that ok :rolleyes:

and yeah, Im trying to import an entire flash website to dreamweaver mx

ie: http://www.jimbrandenburg.com/flash/index_flash.html

thanks

If you want to see how a Flash web site functions on the inside, you're mostly out of luck. You can't pick apart a Flash file in Dreamweaver; Dreamweaver is only for editing HTML, PHP, ASP, CFML, CSS code and the like. Even if you download and save the .swf file, it won't help you, because Flash files are in essence "compiled". That means that to edit anything or to dig around to see how it is built, you need the original .fla file, which you won't get unless the author gives it to you.

[alexander777]

If you want to see how a Flash web site functions on the inside, you're mostly out of luck. You can't pick apart a Flash file in Dreamweaver; Dreamweaver is only for editing HTML, PHP, ASP, CFML, CSS code and the like. Even if you download and save the .swf file, it won't help you, because Flash files are in essence "compiled". That means that to edit anything or to dig around to see how it is built, you need the original .fla file, which you won't get unless the author gives it to you.

mr rogers you are mistaken. it's funny im in talks with a fortune 500 company webmaster as we speak after proving to them at 8 am this morning that a flash capture program can take the flash from the website alonmg with the code. then a program can be used to remove the copy protection, and then decompiled to edit or change the fla. file in dreamweaver which I did today in flash mx 2004. funny now the company wants to hire me to prevent this being done in the future when all they had to do was add a few lines of code. but it can and is done.

[mrogers]

Hmm, very interesting. I'm aware of how to get the Flash file, but I have not seen anything that can actually decompile the file. What is that software called, if I may ask?

[alexander777]

thats simple just look for swf decompiler mx 2002 see you learn something new everyday <wink.

[futb0l]

i will look for it now :p