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Need advice/assistance on converting websties from Homestead SiteBuilder to something else.

Unbeknownst to be, my website developer was a Homestead reseller who built 4 of my websites (and 45 others) with Homestead's proprietary SiteBuilder package.  When he didn't pay his Homestead bill, all the sites shutdown.  Homestead has offered to move my sites to a new Homestead account of my own, but for other integration reasons, I need them hosted somewhere else.

Is anyone aware of a non-proprietary website development tool such as Dreamweaver which can import/convert SiteBuilder pages and make them "non-proprietary" ?  Homestead's SiteBuilder will only download and publish via a homestead.com account.


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Hi cjnovak, the html source appears to contain some formatting similar to microsoft products (such as word, when copying across to a wysiwyg editor), and I'm pretty sure there would be an easy way of using a regex to strip the content.  However, what may be the better alternative is to find a website ripper which will browse the rendered view of the pages and then save them to your harddrive.  You can then edit these as if they were fresh pages.  
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ingwa, thanks for the comments.  Can you suggest such a "website ripper"?  I imagine that after using this, I (or someone else) would still have to re-link everything, etc......
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I've had no responses to my followup query.  Does anyone have a suggestion or link to a "website ripper" program as mentioned above ???
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