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    Senior Member TheeDragon's Avatar
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    for maybe the 3rd time in 30 years
    I want to rip a site and use it as a starter in NOF15
    but that option seems to be missing???

    btw

    the site I want to rip is my own
    made by hand last year when I was on the road
    and did not have NOF on my travel laptop


    yes // HAND CODED every bit of the HTML
    yes // starting doing websites before Fusion was a gleam in anyone's eye

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    If by 'rip' you mean you want to download and import the html into Fusion, you can't. End of. You can download the site using something like sitesucker or HATRACK and then use the assets and copy and paste the text into a new Fusion site.

    There is no, and never has been, any facility in Fusion for importing a site in its entirety; at least, no way that has ever worked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by franko View Post
    There is no, and never has been, any facility in Fusion for importing a site in its entirety; at least, no way that has ever worked.
    There was, but yes it was faulty.
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    Sure there was a menu item, but it never did work, even in the days of plain vanilla html sites. Now that sites are driven much more by javascript and dynamic html the chances of importing a site in any way that's usable into a database are somewhat smaller than Donald Trump converting to Islam.

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    Actually, importing a site did "work". However, the resulting pages consisted of complex nested tables that could be a bear to untangle.

    If you read the glyphs correctly after whispering the proper incantation, you could convert the outer table into a layout region and it wasn't too bad from there.

    Not for the faint of heart or anyone scared of the dark.

    Of course all of this predates HTML 5.
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    Leaving aside whether or not it was ever a viable working process (we'll have to agree to disagree with that one) has anyone tried importing a live html 5 site into 2015? As there would (should) be no nested tables in an html 5 layout, it should be easier for 2015 to import. Somehow I doubt it would, especially generating the database accurately afterwards, but I wondered if anyone had actually tried.

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    hmmmm . .. . . . I m 99% sure (again - with my OLD mind 99% not mean much)
    one of the make new sites options was from existing site
    ( am quite sure I did that years ago - when my IT guy who made one of our original company sites
    left and took data file - so we ripped our own site from a wayback server

    oh well
    can always 'rip the view source' and edit away

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    Yes, there was a function in earlier versions of NOF called "New Site From Existing Web Site". This was last available in NOF 12 AFAIK.

    It didn't work very well (if at all) and created confusion and frustration from everyone who tried it. It was finally, quietly, put to rest.
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