We have a large existing website, current being edited with another CMS.
I was wandering if there is an easy way to convert them into Matrix content?
e.g. Just upload existing site into matrix server, the select the page in matrix. And magically it all works?
Cheers.
[quote]We have a large existing website, current being edited with another CMS.
I was wandering if there is an easy way to convert them into Matrix content?
e.g. Just upload existing site into matrix server, the select the page in matrix. And magically it all works?
Cheers.
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We have just migrated several thousand pages from our old web site.
How easy it is depends on the structure of the site and the CMS you are coming out of.
In our case I wrote some scripts on top of the old CMS to extract the data as XML.
These were then imported into Matrix via a command line script.
I had to do the data in blocks for each section of the site, as the script works on a parent node, but it was a lot easier than doing it by hand. I also took the chance to clean up some of the olf HTML via HTML tidy.
The other thing I did for one-off page was to create temporary pages that had the content styled how we wanted in Matrix and cut it from the browser and pasted in a WYSIWYG div.
So, essentially we created the structure in Matrix first, and then migrated the content in blocks either by hand or using scripts.
You’ll find the guys very helpfull 
cheers,
Richard