The javascript-generating-HTML techniques used by Site Designer caused problems for some visitors to my sites. I am not 100% certain what causes the problem, but it is very repeatable and seems to be associated with Norton Internet Security products. Users with the problem get a giant mess instead of nice pages. So I wanted to strip out most of the Javascript and present a mostly static page - this solved the problem.
It occured to me that other people might want to rescue their HTML from the site designer wizard as well - possibly to fix the bugs I was seeing, or to be able to load their site into Dreamweaver or Frontpage, or to be able to more highly customize their HTML (and fix things like "Untitled" web pages).
Here is the step by step process I used to extract the HTML from my site designer site.
1) Download the HTML document and Open it for editing
2) Add this script to the bottom of the webpage:
<script janguage="javascript">
function newWin() {
ven = window.open('','_blank');
var results = document.documentElement.innerHTML;
var match = "<";
var re = new RegExp("<", "g");
var newresults = results.replace(re, "<");
ven.document.write(newresults );
}
newWin();
</script>
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3) Open the modified HTML document in a browser
4) A new window will popup with the source HTML, Copy the HTML from this window to this site:
http://infohound.net/tidy/
5) Paste it in, tidy it, copy the results as the starting point for the new page.
6) In the new HTML, remove all <script> and CDATA blocks
7) Add these lines before the <body> tag*:
<script src="js/navig.js"></script>
<script src="js/email.js"></script>
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*There may be additional .js files you need to reference to make your pages work. These did the trick for me, but your mileage may vary.
Publish this new page to your web server, overwriting the old one.
Obviously, after you do this you should not use site designer any more.
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