<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">This will be more difficult, and some additional programming/script work needs to happen. I won't go into it here, but if someone wants to take a <font size="2">look, email me directly for all that is involved.<br><br><font size="2">V/r<br><br><font size="2">Bob</font><br></font></font></font></font></font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Erik Mathis <erik@mathists.com>
<br>Sent: Oct 31, 2012 4:51 PM
<br>To: ale@ale.org
<br>Subject: Re: [ale] Website Conversion
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I've only ever migrated one site off dotnetnuke. I used wget to
spider the site and some sed foo to remove dotnetnuke crud from the
files wget made. iirc it took about 2 hours of work.<br>
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-Erik-<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/2012 04:20 PM, Jay Lozier
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/2012 03:12 PM, Bob Kruger
wrote:<br>
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<style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">The
current site is informational. Primary purpose now is to
provide the organization's newsletter for download. For
the future site, there is some e-commerce that would
happen. Also, membership should be handled via the site
using some sort of e-commerce application. Because there
are different membership options (based on distribution of
the newsletter, e.g. electronic, printed, or CD), we would
like to see that handled via the site as well.<br>
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Database is Microsoft SQL, but exporting and importing
will not be that difficult and I can probably handle that.<br>
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<font size="2">I<font size="2">t does not sound <font size="2">like
it should be to difficult <font size="2">to migrate <font size="2">more like tedious and possibl<font size="2">y
time <font size="2">consuming. You might want to
review the <font size="2">site's html to see how
clean it is<font size="2">. <font size="2">I do
not know how messy the <font size="2">final
code <font size="2">produce by <font size="2">Do<font size="2">tNetNuke is<font size="2"> or if tends <font size="2">produce non-standard
html.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
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From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> <br>
Sent: Oct 31, 2012 2:55 PM <br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>
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Subject: Re: [ale] Website Conversion <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/2012 12:57 PM, Bob
Kruger wrote:<br>
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<style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">All;<br>
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<font size="2">I "inherited" main<font size="2">tain<font size="2">a</font>nce of</font> a website
that is run via DotNetNuke on a Microsoft
server. To s<font size="2">ay that I am
undershwelmed is an overstatement. However,
the site has been up for a number of years,
and site users have gotten used to the look
and feel. To change that would <font size="2">not be good.<br>
<br>
<font size="2">At the same time, the <font size="2">web<font size="2"> hosting pr<font size="2">ovider that <font size="2">I inherited<font size="2">, e.g.
webhost4life.com, <font size="2">has proven to be
increasingly incompetent and
unresponsive with useless
tech support from Mumbai<font size="2">. All are sorry
for my inconvenience, but
they do nothing to fix
problems. Time for a
change </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
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<font size="2"><font size="2">I<font size="2"> am
looking for <font size="2">someone who can
cross both Windows server based systems and
Linux based systems <font size="2">to migrate
what we have to a Linux based platform and
software<font size="2">, but keep <font size="2">a similar look at feel. <font size="2">And, there is compensation <font size="2">with this project, e.g. not
asking for free work.<br>
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<font size="2">An<font size="2">y
takers or recommendations?<br>
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<font size="2">V/r<br>
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<font size="2">Bob</font><br>
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Bob,<br>
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A couple of quick questions:<br>
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What type of site is it (e-commerce, informational,
etc.)?<br>
I am concerned about what security, data encryption,
etc. that are required.<br>
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Does it use a database (MS SQL Server most likely if it
is MS based)?<br>
In principle migrating from one relational database to
another is more a pain than especially difficult.
Details such as indexing, views, etc may be troublesome
in the conversion and there some differences in the SQL
dialects.<br>
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Is there any server side scripting and if so what
language?<br>
My guess for an MS site is asp.<br>
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There are several cheap, good hosting companies
available and from what know transferring to another
host is not terribly difficult. I think transferring is
mostly about paying a fee and wait a few minutes and you
are done.<br>
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I have recently started working with Fat Cows (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.fatcows.com">www.fatcows.com</a>) for
a couple of informational websites. So far they seem
very good.<br>
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