Melody Scott
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transfer content to new site design
Hi, I maintain a huge website, and the owner has contracted another company to create a new website design. Sometime in the next few months, they'll want me to transfer content over. Are there any tools out there that would help me do that?
I can't transfer just text, because there are links, photos, headers, bullets, etc within the text that need to be transferred as well.
So although the person in charge of the project thinks I can just copy a page, paste it into notepad and then copy that into the new site, I think he's full of it. I'm looking for something, hopefully a tool we can download, that would extract text with p tags, ul and li tags, link tags, and everything valuable, while getting rid of classes and any inline styles. I could handle the photos separately.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
I can't transfer just text, because there are links, photos, headers, bullets, etc within the text that need to be transferred as well.
So although the person in charge of the project thinks I can just copy a page, paste it into notepad and then copy that into the new site, I think he's full of it. I'm looking for something, hopefully a tool we can download, that would extract text with p tags, ul and li tags, link tags, and everything valuable, while getting rid of classes and any inline styles. I could handle the photos separately.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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It's a static HTML5 site. What I'm doing now is going through the files manually and removing classes and styles, leaving just the text content, links and plain tags. Just copying plain text wouldn't work, we'd lose all the links. I also want it to have the paragraph and list tags still there, so the layout will look right on the new site. That's why I don't like the copy and paste plain text idea. Unless I'm missing something?
I've found if you cut and paste from web page into say Word then the links stay in the word document.
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Right.... boss won't like that, because word adds extra crap to the html. Thanks. I think maybe my way of doing it is going to be the only way to go.
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You can use https://www.httrack.com/
But why not just copy the entire folder from the server or your dev area and give them only the html files?
But why not just copy the entire folder from the server or your dev area and give them only the html files?
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Thanks, everyone, I think this solution is the one that best meets my needs. I appreciate all the input!
does it contain a database? i.e. does it have a CMF system like WordPress or Joomla or is it a static site made up of html files?
1) if its a CMS site (like wordpress) then you can back up the database using a database back up tool such as MyPHPadmin and then back up all the files from the site using FTP.
2) if its a static site then back up all the files from the site using FTP.
IMHO it sounds like they could do the cut and paste