How to copy and/or import your website into Microsoft Sharepoint Designer and Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

Use this step-by-step guide to copy a Web site to a local computer by using the Publish feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and in Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003.

Copy a Web site to a local computer

To copy a Web site to a local computer, follow these steps:
  1. Start SharePoint Designer 2007 or FrontPage 2003.
  2. On the?File?menu, click?Open Site?to open the Web site that you want to copy to the local hard disk.
  3. On the?File?menu, click?Publish Site.
  4. In the?Remote Web Site Properties?dialog box, click?File System, and then use one of the following procedures:
    • In the?Remote Web site location?box, type the path of the local folder where you want to copy the Web. Use the following syntax, where?DriveLetter?is the physical hard disk drive letter and?FolderName?is the name of the folder on your hard disk:
      DriveLetter:\FolderName
    • Click?Browse, locate the starting page of the Web site that you want to import, click the starting page, and then click?Open. The starting page can be any page in the Web site, not just the home page.?

      Note?If you published this Web site previously, the?Publish Destination?dialog box does not appear. Go to step 5.
  5. Click?OK.
  6. Specify the pages that you want to publish. To do this, follow these steps:
    1. In the?Local Web site?pane, right-click each file that you do not want to publish, and then click?Don't Publish.
    2. In the?Remote Web site?pane, under?Publish all changed pages, click?Local to remote.
    3. Above the?Remote Web site?pane, click?Optimize Published HTML, and then click the?Publishing?tab.
    4. Under?General,, click the options that you want.
    5. If you want to create a log file for changes that are made during publishing, click to select the?Log changes during publish?check box.
    6. To publish a subsite, click to select the?Include subsites?check box.
    7. Click?OK.
    8. 8. Click?Publish Web site.
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Import a Web site by using the Import Web Site Wizard

To import files from an existing Web site to your computer by using the Import Web Site Wizard, follow these steps:
  1. If you are running SharePoint Designer 2007, point to?Import?on the?File?menu, and then click?Import Site Wizard.

    If you are running FrontPage 2003, click?Import?on the?File?menu, and then click?From Site.
  2. In the Import Web Site Wizard, click?HTTP.
  3. In the?Web Site Location?box, type the location of the site that you want to import. For example, type?http://example.com?in the?Web Site Location?box.?

    Note?You can also click?Browse, locate the starting page of the Web site that you want to import, click the starting page, and then clickOpen. The starting page can be any page in the Web site, not just the home page.
  4. Click?Next, and then follow the instructions in the Import Web Site Wizard.
Note?In FrontPage 2003, the publishing procedure, including all dependent files, is performed automatically as part of the importing process on an extended Web site. In earlier versions of FrontPage, you had to publish the Web site to import all the files.
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