The mother of all stupid newby questions

[mpdeneen]

I want to switch my site from an html site, built with Frontpage and looks it, to a CMS site using getsimple. Question: can I play with it & build it, test it, etc, while my original site goes along as before? In other words, is there a "go live" switch on these things?

[JWH_Matthew]

I want to switch my site from an html site, built with Frontpage and looks it, to a CMS site using getsimple. Question: can I play with it & build it, test it, etc, while my original site goes along as before? In other words, is there a "go live" switch on these things?

Just build your site in a sub directory

example:

Code:

www.mysite.com/testing/

then when your done migrate it to your home directory.

[Timbow]

I want to switch my site from an html site, built with Frontpage and looks it, to a CMS site using getsimple. Question: can I play with it & build it, test it, etc, while my original site goes along as before? In other words, is there a "go live" switch on these things?

Just build your site in a sub directory

Or you can build it locally on your desktop by creating the right environment with PHP and apache. Easy with windows, don't know about other OSs.

[JWH_Matthew]

easy with Mac OS as well, just install mamp.

[Timbow]

easy with Mac OS as well, just install mamp.

That's good. it was a bit trickier on Linux last time I looked, but doable.

[polyfragmented]

The tip with the sub-directory is good; if you have access to a webspace config panel, you could probably make the domain point directly to the sub-dir. There would be no real migration necessary then.