Move site from Dreamweaver to Designer Pro

[Tabvla]

I have used Xara products for many years but only as a tool to create artwork - never as a tool to create websites. (Currently use Designer Pro).

I have always coded and maintained websites using Dreamweaver and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. However, I have one site that uses a lot of photographs, many of which are frequently being updated, deleted, replaced and edited.

I believe that it would be advantageous if I could "reverse-engineer" this site from Dreamweaver into Designer Pro. Currently I do all the photo-editing work in DP and then import this work into Dreamweaver and update the site from there. It seems to make more sense if I could update the site directly in DP and then upload directly to the server from within DP.

However I have no idea how to move a Dreamweaver site into Designer Pro. I would therefore be grateful if someone could advise me as to how I would go about doing this.

TiA

T.

[ShapeShifter]

You'll have to start from scratch as Designer Pro isn't a HTML editor and can't open html files.
GWP has a tutorial on recreating a web page here: http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest91/

One thing, if it's a photo heavy site you plan to build in Designer -- it's advised to optimise jpgs regularly, save, close then reopen Designer -- else you may fall victim to the dreaded OOM

[gwpriester]

You can quickly import all the images from a page using the File > Import Graphics from Web...

You may get an error message (I just did when I tried this), that says something about no filter. Just ignore it. All of the images from that page come in fine. (Not sure about Flash or MPG though).

[Tabvla]

Thanks to both of you for your feedback and suggestions.

Considering your comments I have refined what I would actually like to accomplish.

The attached diagram "dw and dp.jpg" explains what I would like to do.

Is this possible and if it is how do you suggest I go about it?

Thanks for your help.

T.