Is it tedious to migrate an existing website to DNN? Will starting from scratch be a better idea?
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Is it tedious to migrate an existing website to DNN? Will starting from scratch be a better idea?
I migrated a 150 page website last year and it was not tedious.
We sat down with DNN, planed out the structure we wanted and build the menu’s – 1 hour
Then we opened Notepad, and spent three days copying and pasting. Copy from Live Site, paste to notepad, and CTRL +A and CTRL + C, flick over to DNN and paste again. Any complex or arkward pages my colleague left for later. After three days we had migrated the entire site. No tools, no fancy import and export.
All done in a couple of days. And of course by the end of it, my colleague was up to speed on DNN also.
It is a low tech, highly successful and easy approach.
I would consider import routines for highly structured data, but otherwise, I recommend this approach.