Understanding where to start

After reviewing many threads and spending much time on the board and with my new install, I am not confident that I am doing this correctly. Therefore I pose this question.

Assuming that I have a fully coded site, coded in dreamweaver, xhtml with css, what is the most effective way to get the site code and css into a template and get the pages up and running? I am convinced that I must be doing something backwards here because it’s taking me too long to get this implemented and live.

You feedback, enlightenment and encouragement is appreciated.

Please read this post I wrote a while ago.
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3450.msg24728.html#msg24728

and:
http://modxcms.com/template-basics.html
http://modxcms.com/adding-tags.html

Hope this helps.

regards.

Quote from: centralmass at Dec 05, 2006, 03:19 PM

Assuming that I have a fully coded site, coded in dreamweaver, xhtml with css, what is the most effective way to get the site code and css into a template and get the pages up and running? I am convinced that I must be doing something backwards here because it’s taking me too long to get this implemented and live.

You feedback, enlightenment and encouragement is appreciated.

Ultimately it depends on how you organized the site in Dreamweaver. Did you make use of DW templates? Or are all pages purely static XHTML? If the latter, you could use the Site Import functionality, in which it reads a directory structure of html files and imports them into MODx as documents, putting everything in between the body tags into each document’s content area.

If you used DW templates, you can fairly easily convert those into MODx templates by turning the templatable areas of your documents into MODx tags.