Import existing site?

[Videx]

We're just starting to investigate converting our site to a CMS, but one seemingly obvious question has so far eluded all my searches.

How can we (or can we?) import our existing html site? Mostly just pictures and HTML from Frontpage (no CSS or other fancy stuff). We have hundreds of pages, so we really don't like to think we'll have to redo them all manually.

TIA

[Augustas]

Maybe this link will answer some of your concerns:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... with_CMSms

[Videx]

Thanks for the link. Quite a read, though it really has little to do with the question of how to import a site without having to manually import each page one at a time.

The author actually seems to have an important point to make about starting a CMS in an existing site. A shame they couldn't have gotten to the point without all the obfuscation. Like using the word "motorize" which is guaranteed not to show up on anyone's search terms.

[Augustas]

Sorry, did not understand that you want automatic import into CMSMS.
I think it is impossible, unless all your 100 HTML pages have the same code structure and you could write some PHP script which parses HTML code and takes certain part of your page and inserts into database.

[Pierre M.]

...you could write some PHP script which parses HTML code and takes certain part of your page and inserts into database.

yes... motorize