Move your website to Striive. Without starting over.

The person who built it is gone. So is your access.

Many small businesses have a website a freelancer or a nephew made years ago. It still looks fine, but every small text change means finding someone who can edit HTML. Starting over feels like throwing away work you’ve already paid for.

Which websites can you move?

Striive imports static websites: sites made of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images and fonts as ordinary files. Many older business sites and sites built from a bought theme are exactly that. You can also import a zip exported from another Striive website.

Sites built in WordPress, Wix and similar systems keep their content in a database, not in files, so they can’t be imported directly.

How to move your website

1. Get the files. Most hosting providers let you download your site as a zip from their file manager or via FTP.
2. Open the import in Striive, and drag in the files, the whole folder or the zip.
3. Review what Striive found: pages, styles, images, colours, fonts and scripts. Untick anything you don’t want.
4. If a page address or style name already exists on your site, choose to rename, overwrite or skip it.
5. Import. Everything lands in one step, and one undo reverses the whole import if you change your mind.
6. Check each page, publish, and connect your domain.

What comes along

The imported pages are made of ordinary sections you can drag, click and edit, like anything else built in Striive.

• One page per HTML file, with its address taken from the file path: about/index.html becomes /about.
• Links between your pages keep working inside Striive.
• CSS becomes styles you can edit. A stylesheet can also be kept exactly as it is, for just the pages that used it.
• Colours and fonts defined in the CSS become design values you can change in one place.
• Your own font files and Google Fonts are installed on your site.
• Images go into your media library, in folders like the original ones and with their alt text.
• Scripts come along as scripts on the pages that used them, and forms become real Striive forms.

What doesn’t come along

Server code, such as a PHP mail script, doesn’t come along. Use a Striive form instead. A few advanced CSS rules (@layer and some @import rules) can’t be converted; Striive shows a warning for each one rather than dropping it silently. An import can be up to 1 GB and 10,000 files.

Today, you import from files you have. Importing a site straight from its web address is planned, for when you don’t have the files at hand.