Style upgrade feature??

[devenh]

I'm evaluating editors and wondered if WeBuilder has a feature to take an existing non-CSS web page and create style sheet for it and upgrade the tags?

If not, what would be the best approach using WeBuilder to upgrade an existing 40+ non-CSS web site to use style sheets?

Thanks,

Deven

[ebarstad]

I'm not sure about layout, but if you're talking about font tags, etc., you can set up HTML Tidy to clean up the HTML for each page. Tools -> HTML Tidy. Works best if there's no server-side code embedded.

Eric

[syrupcore]

could be a big job!

Might want to do it in two passes: pass one for color/font styles and pass two for structure and layout.

Find and Replace is your friend. Make a backup! But you might be able to do something like (just an example)

find:

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<p><font><font>

and replace with

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<p>

and replace

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</font></font></p>

with

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</p>

Looks like my code is getting mangled. Assuming those font tags had colors and sizes and font faces associated with them, you'd replace them all with a single paragraph with a class="yourclassname". then add a style to your stylesheet for yourclassname{with appropriate styles} to replicate the original.

If you know anything about regular expressions, webuilder can really help out here. You might not need that at all. Webuilder has a pretty fancy find and replace dialog - you can even find/replace across files in a given folder.

If you don't have a lot of different font changes happening on the pages, it might be easier to just rebuild the template in CSS and then recreate the pages by inserting the content.

Also as mentioned above, HTML Tidy can really help out here too.

It may be a lot of work but once you cross over, you can't imagine going back! It's good stuff and worth the time for about 349 reasons.

Good luck,
Will

[Karlis]

Currently there is no special style upgrade feature, however HTML Tidy and some replace can help.