Bring Manually Created Website Into FrontPage

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Dick

I have a colleague that just inherited a website that was written in
manual HTML code. She doesn't understand HTML, and wants to bring it
into FrontPage so she can use FP for future updates. I realize you
can't just import a website like that without having to do a lot of
tweaking.

What is the best (easiest) way to accomplish it? She has the website
on her computer, and is currently using FTP for the changes. Can the
website be imported? Should it be published from the hard drive,
published from the active website, etc. ?
 
I suppose the easy way is to

1) Open frontpage
2) File > Open > Site
3) Browse to the folder with the site in question
4) Click "Open" and let FP add its special folders etc (it will ask you the
question about converting the folder to a 'web').
5) Then open the page(s) as necessary and edit them
6) Save all work
7) File > Publish > Site
8) Type in the URL to the FP-enabled server etc to publish the page, or
connect with FTP (either Frontpage's FTP mode, or 3rd party product eg
CuteFTP if not using specific FP functions requiring the extensions).

I would think there'd be minimal work to get it looking nice (FP2003
shouldn't mess with the code too much).
 
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