Program Of The Week: WinHTTrack

I’m new to downloading sites straight onto my computer but it really does look popular, now I can see this being used for many purposes, maybe your internet connection goes down and you want to access your resource websites but can’t so you use WinHTTrack to download the sites next time you will be ready. Or my favourite is save your bandwidth because you will download the site straight to your computer you wont need to access the internet to view it any more you can just view it from your computer, which is a brilliant idea and the main reason I am using it.

Its a really good program you don’t need to have any knowledge of how websites work etc, as it will allow you to set up category’s so for example I have a Web Development category and in this it has n2kdesign.co.uk and w3schools.co.uk.
It will take all the pages from n2kdesign.co.uk which (if configured) will also download zip files or things like that allowing me to have everything they have except the obvious PHP files etc.

After you’ve downloaded the site you will be given a nice page with your category’s on and in the category’s you will have the sites you downloaded, the sites are exactly the same as when you visited them it just wont get updated until you tell it to update.

I should also warn you if downloading a forum site it will take a very very long time and a lot of space :p.

You will find WinHTTrack at this address http://www.httrack.com/