How to Import a Blog Into a Website Using Dreamweaver CS5
Using the Internet to express yourself may take multiple forms, including jotting down your personal thoughts for random readers through a blog or building a small outpost for yourself with a website. To combine the two takes a little effort, and the Dreamweaver CS5 Web-building software offers a few workarounds. If you have already created a blog and want to import it onto your website, Dreamweaver works by digging into and accessing the source material.
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Instructions
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Start Dreamweaver CS5. Check for your page's file name in the "Open a Recent Item" column. If it is there, double-click it. If not, click the "Open" file folder link, browse to the page and double-click it.
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Scroll to the section of the page where you want to import and insert the blog text. You may want to press "Enter" to create a line break so as not to interrupt page or image flow.
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Click the "File" menu, and select "Import." Press "Word Document."
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Browse to the document that holds your blog text. Double-click the file name. Dreamweaver imports everything in the document -- including any pictures like your head shot for the top of the blog -- onto the Dreamweaver page.
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Review the imported text and any images as Dreamweaver's rendering of the blog's spacing and styles may get disrupted during the actual import. The blog imports as editable, changeable text, so you can click directly onto any line and make changes and deletions.
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Tips & Warnings
Another way to get blog information into Dreamweaver is simply to cut and paste the blog text. Open an Internet browser or navigate to where on your computer your blog posts are saved. Highlight and copy the blog text, then open the Dreamweaver page as illustrated here and paste in the text.
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Dreamweaver's import settings are somewhat limited. As illustrated here, you can import a blog if it is in a Word document format. Dreamweaver also permits importing of Excel spreadsheets and XML, which is a HyperText Markup Language. To skirt around some of the import issues, if you save your blog as an image, Dreamweaver can import it using the "Insert" menu's "Image" function.
