Moving a Site to a New Computer

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Moving a Site to a New Computer

Thursday, October 18, 2007

With so many users getting a new computer, I have seen a few threads about how to get my website from my old computer to the new one. If the website is not that large, you can always publish the website from the server to your new computer.

If it has a number of pages or you are on dial-up, you can also compress the website (ZIP) so copy to a new system. You can also just copy the files from an USB drive or another type of storage media. Once on the new system, create a new web and copy the files into that web.

Microsoft Expression Web

When attempting to move files over from an old system to your brand new computer, the scenario can be just about the same as Microsoft Frontpage. Go to File - New - Web Site and choose Empty Web Site. Now make sure you look at the name (and path) of where your new web site will be located. If you are on a Vista machine, the path might look something like C:\Users\username\Documents\My Web Sites\example.com.

Now locate the pages you wish to be in your Expression Web site and hit CNTL-A (select all) and then CNTL-C (copy). And go back into your Expression Web site and paste these files into your Expression Web site: Moving your web site from one computer to another one video tutorial for Expression Web.

Microsoft Frontpage

With Microsoft Frontpage, you would go to File - New and then select New Website (on the right). This will (probably) create an index.html file - you can delete this file. Now, go to where your (web) files are, hit CNTL-A (select all) and CNTL-C (copy).

Directories Containing Web site configuration information will not be imported

Now you can paste your website into the new Frontpage website you just created. It might tell you Directories Containing Web site configuration information will not be imported or No Files found to Import. Just hit OK to these and let Frontpage finish importing the web: Moving your web site from one computer to another one video tutorial for Frontpage.

Once completed, you might consider going to Tools - Recalculate Hyperlinks also. And don't forget to set up your website. Chances are, you still might be using Frontpage Server Extensions to publish the web site, which is OK. You will see this is pretty much the same as Microsoft Expression Web.

When I bought a new computer with Vista Ultimate, I just copied all the web sites over from the old computer to the new system with no problems. I still have my web sites on both computers as a back-up. There are many ways to get the web site over from one computer to another. Most are very simple and you can determine which way is the best for you.