Moving an old site to Drupal?

The following article will discuss the right way to do this using the module Migrate (version2).
Migrate V2 uses Drush (Drupal Shell) to execute the migration functions, if your are not familiar with Drush I suggest looking into this very powerful tool.

Here is a list of the main challenges I have faced during the process :

1. Mapping old information to the new structure.
2. Mapping the old values to match the new fields.
3. Moving the references between the old objects into Drupal.

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