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Yes you can import a website in Dreamweaver, but:
1. Frontpage created a huge amount of code that is a real menace if you want
to create accessible and valid code, this code will be imported, but can be
(partially) removed after importing the site by cleaning up the HTML under the
commands option in the menu
2. You're missing out on the Templates in Dreamweaver with editable regions
that show up in Contribute and seperates design from content
Contribute will not save the updated information to your harddisk, only to the
server, unless you take extra actions as explained in the previous post.
Best way to go, I think, is to create a Dreamweaver template (maybe from the
Frontpage template) with editable regions. Maybe you can use find and replace
options to ease up the process, but I think you'll need o pro to help with such
a process.
This is what Dreamweaver help says about importing:
[i]Edit an existing remote website in Dreamweaver
You can use Dreamweaver to copy an existing remote site (or any branch of a
remote site) to your local disk and edit it there, even if you didn?t use
Dreamweaver to create the original site.
Create a local folder to contain the existing site and set up the folder as
the local folder for the site.
Note: You must locally duplicate the entire structure of the relevant branch
of the existing remote site.
Set up a remote folder, using the remote access information about the existing
site. You must connect to the remote site to download the files to your
computer before you can edit them.
Make sure to choose the correct root folder for the remote site.
In the Files panel (Window > Files), click the Connects To Remote Host button
(for FTP access) or the Refresh button (for network access) in the toolbar to
view the remote site.
Edit the site:
If you want to work with the entire site, select the root folder of the remote
site in the Files panel, and click Get in the toolbar to download the entire
site to your local disk.
If you want to work with just one of the files or folders of the site, locate
the file or folder in the Remote view of the Files panel, and click Get in the
toolbar to download that file to your local disk.
Dreamweaver automatically duplicates as much of the remote site?s structure as
is necessary to place the downloaded file in the correct part of the site
hierarchy. When editing only one part of a site, you should generally include
dependent files, such as image files.[/i]
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