Updating an old website

[jimgriff]

I have an "old" personal website that was built using MS Frontpage.
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I would like to revamp and modernise the site but am not very technosavvy.
Can I "cut and paste" the whole site into a new programme and do it from there?
I like the WYSIWYG concept and would be keen to use this system.
I need galleries instead of standalone pictures
I do not like the CMS web system

Any advice?

[Bushfiva]

Can I "cut and paste" the whole site into a new programme and do it from there?

Pretty much, yes. It's a simple site. I assume you want a free solution, so something like BlueGriffon might work for you. Since you've previously worked in a vaguely wordprocessor-like environment, OpenOffice/LibreOffice would also work.

Neither of the above would give you a particularly polished-looking site.

However, your current host offers several website building tools, so I suggest you talk to it or have a look around its website.

[Load Toad]

In HK you can get a rather smart looking website done for a couple of hundred quid. In your own locale do a web search for designers - you may be surprised how little it will cost to make a nice clean web site.

[500N]

Load toad

Agreed, but the problem with that is you end up with still being reliant
on someone else to update it.

If you have a basic web site that either uses a database or you can
update it yourself with links to say Photobucket, it makes it so much easier.

And a positive result of the above is that by keeping it "fresh",
it keeps it more interesting.


To the OP
Can't help you with any of the programs to use but plenty out there.

[Load Toad]

Not necessarily mate - you can have a web site made so that you can alter the content through an interface not unlike a 'Word' lay out. We have that on ours - even I can make changes, add links etc.

[PowerDragTrim]

Have you looked at KompoZer?
KompoZer - Easy web authoring (http://www.kompozer.net/index.php)
You may also need an FTP programme. If so try FireFTP - The Free FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/) in conjunction with Firefox browser.
Both are very easy to use - I know, I can!