When I go look at my website files (created in an old webpage maker) on my web hosting dashboard, I see a list something like:
about.html
contact.html
directions.html
index.html
faq.html
etc.
When you visit my site, you see the address of each page as "mysite.com/about.html," "mysite.com/contact.html," etc. (and with the index.html page just appearing as "mysite.com").
My website has been up continuously for many years, and I have a lot of links to my various pages from other websites. So, I don't want to change the names of my pages or I'll break all those valuable links from other sites.
I recently re-did my website in Xara Web Designer 11 Premium to look more modern and be Responsive Web Design, and I carefully named each new page in Xara to match the page names I already have, hoping to replace my old about.html (for example) with a new, shiny Xara-made about.html, etc.
However, when I publish from Xara, it only uploads a single index.htm file, and did not overwrite my old index.html file. I then tried exporting the Xara website as an html file, but it still only exports a file called index.htm. When I view either the Xara-published index.htm or the html exported index.htm, I see all my pages, all built into the one index file. The pages have an address like "mywebsite as HTML/index.htm#xl_xr_page_about," which is totally different than "mywebsite.com/about.html," so outside links to my site won't work.
I can always go to my individual files and have them redirect to the new Xara site, but I would rather keep my file names in tact if possible.
Is there a way to get Xara to export each page as individual html files so I can upload and overwrite my existing pages, or do RWD sites have to be in a single index file or something?
Thanks for any help!
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