Re: Migrating CMS content from one server to another

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Robertson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [CMS] Migrating CMS content from one server to another
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I completely agree with James. When we have done a CMS migration it's almost 
always cut and paste in plain text.

We do this because the old content usually contains poor formatting, and 
HTML tags we no longer use (like font tags or MS Word created HTML). We have
been actively creating sites which are standards compliant with CSS 2 (or at 
least as close as we can come).  This also
helps our clients in recognizing what they actually have as far as content 
and often they can delete much of the outdated information.

If a client has massive amounts of data then this is not possible and an 
automatic conversion is the only feasible and cost effective
was to transfer content.

-Jerry

Jerry Santelli
Fusion Productions
http://www.fusionproductions.com