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Step By Step March 1999 • Vol.5 Issue 3 |
How To . . . Save Web Pages | ||
Jump to first occurrence of: [SAVE] [WEB] [PAGE]  Exploring the many riches of the World Wide Web takes time—time that most of us can't waste. This is why we need to make the most of our time online. A good way to start is by saving important Web pages to your hard drive or a diskette. This way, you can view them at your convenience without having to go online.  Simple Saves. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 and Netscape Navigator 4.x allow you to save Web pages to diskette or your hard drive for easy offline viewing. Navigator. In Navigator, choose Save As from the File menu once you find a page you want to save. Give the page a new name in the File Name field, then navigate to the directory in which you want to save the file. Click the arrow in the Save File As Type field to view a drop-down box. Choose HTML Files to save the page layout of this file and its text; choose Plain Text to save just the text. Click Save. Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer also lets Web surfers save Web page as plain text or text with the page layout. To do so, choose Save As from the File menu, navigate to where you want to save the page, and type a new name for the page. Next, you need to choose a file format from the drop-down box in the Save As Type field. If you want to save the page with the formatting and text intact, select HTML File; to save the page as a text-only file, select Text File. Click Save to finish. Disk Cache. If you don't want to take the time to save each Web page, you can let your browser do it for you. Internet Explorer and Navigator automatically store each Web page you visit in a cache. (A cache is a bank of high-speed memory set aside for frequently accessed data.)
As you move the pointer in a cached Internet Explorer page, you may see the cursor change to a permission-denied circle if you rest it on a link that is not in the cache. If you click this link anyway, a message box will tell you the requested universal resource locator (URL, Web address) is unavailable offline. You then have the option of connecting to the Internet to view the page. You also can view a cached Web page by going to C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES. To open a file, double-click it. If you want Internet Explorer to save more pages in the cache, you need to adjust the amount of hard drive space it uses to store temporary Internet files. To do this, right-click the Internet Explorer icon on your Desktop, select Properties from the pop-up menu, and click the General tab in the resulting dialog box. Next, click the Settings button in the Temporary Internet Files section. Move the slider to the right to increase the amount of space Internet Explorer should reserve for the TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES folder. The larger the folder, the more pages Internet Explorer can store. Click OK to finish. Navigator. While online, Navigator also stores information from pages in a cache area on your hard drive. To view these pages offline, select Work Offline from the File menu. Then, go to C:\PROGRAM FILES\NETSCAPE \USERS\USERNAME\CACHE and double-click a file. The files in the cache are only text and graphic elements; there are no complete pages (pages with their graphics, text, and layout intact). To view a complete page while offline, follow the steps outlined in the Save As method described above. To determine the amount of space allocated to the cache, select Preferences from Navigator's Edit menu. In the Preferences dialog box, go the Category section and click the plus sign (+) next to Advanced, then click Cache. Navigator actually has two types of cache. Memory Cache stores page text and graphics only while Navigator is actually running. When you exit, you will lose everything in the memory cache. On the other hand, Disk Cache stores text and graphics on your hard drive. Page and site data remain in the cache even after you quit the program. The larger the Disk Cache setting, the more text and graphics Navigator stores in reserve. To change the amount set aside for the cache, type a new number and click OK. by Carol S. Holzberg, PhD |
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