[support] Strategy for converting a site to drupal

[Tim Johnson]

Let's say I have an existing website and want to convert that site
to drupal.

What I have done in the past is something like this :

Where my original site is www.mydomain.com, create
www.mydomain.com/new, require authorization and go to work. when
done, move files form www.mydomain.com/new to www.mydomain.com,
presumably overwritting the original directory.

What would be the 'drupalist' way to do that?
URLs to topics on this subject would be perfectly fine.
thanks
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Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com