VSD - How do I import an existing site?

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Subject pretty much say's it all. I am setting up a blogsite and have a theme but no way to import into VSD. Any clues on how to do this?

Thanks.
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You can't. You can open and edit the HTML of the site using HTML Editor, but there's no way to import a site into VSD that was created using any other means.
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Here's the related entry in the knowledge base:

http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/ … tml-files/
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Thanks. I thought as much. Bummer.

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I asked much the same question last week. I expect that's the same answer you're going to get with any WYSIWYG editor: the app is going to have its own proprietary format for manipulating and importing objects, and only spit out actual HTML at publish time. To maintain it you'll need the same app or be willing and able to work with the site at the basic code level. In the latter case you can always use HTML editor! :cool:
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Spinny wrote:
I expect that's the same answer you're going to get with any WYSIWYG editor: the app is going to have its own proprietary format for manipulating and importing objects, and only spit out actual HTML at publish time.


As far as WYSIWYG editors for web pages go, this seems to be pretty much unique to VSD, but it also generates graphics. Since that information can't be stored in an html page, CC had to come up with another approach.
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It was also an issue with CuteSiteBuilder: a proprietary monolithic file containing the whole site (including binary image data), and when you went into publish mode it would generate the HTML and images and so on for upload.
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