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Hi, I need some advice, please.

I’ll be building a new site based totally on one running in EE 1.6.8. (structure, basic design/wireframes, weblogs, categories, fields etc.).

However, names of weblogs and categories will differ from the original since its in another language, and so will the IDs probably.

What would be the best way around this:

1. Start in EE1, copy-paste templates, create weblogs, categories, fields etc. and modify the new templates acording to the changes - make it run, and then upgrade to EE2?

2. Get right into EE2, create weblogs etc. and then copy-paste what is posible from the old site - remembering to translate the code manually etc? Michael Boyink has made a tutorial for this.

- and what should I be aware of in either case? - it’ll be my first time playing with EE2.

Thanks a bunch!

It depends. If you simply want to keep your site upgrade to 1.6.9 and keep it there. Otherwise, yes, I’d start out with 2.1 and import my old templates by and by.

Ingmar, thanks for your reply.

It’s a new site for another client, only it’s based on one I’ve already built, and at any rate I’ll have to do several modifications manually.

I just want to be sure not to mess anything up while building/upgrading, so… which would be the safer option?

-K

As long as you keep current backups the risk should certainly be manageable either way. I have a slight preference for 2.1., but that’s just a personal preference.