Downloading Webpages



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Downloading Webpages A person conducting research in a library has several options for taking information back home with them. They can photocopy relevant pages from a book or journal, take notes, memorize the information or check the books out from the library. Web searching offers several of those research options as well. You can easily print the contents of a webpage. You can take notes or memorize important facts. You can download the webpages and save them to a hard disk or floppy disk for later reference. However, web searching offers one powerful option not found in a library. The web searcher can bookmark the website, leave the document and return to it at any time with the click of a button. Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson’s dreams have come true. Well, most of the time… I’m sure that you have bookmarked a webpage only to return later and find that the webpage is no longer available or has been moved to another location on the web. This happens with annoying regularity on the web. Since there are no librarians around to make sure that all the documents are managed in an orderly fashion, chaos reigns. You will have to decide how important the website that you have found is to your research. If you can’t do without it, it is best to print or save the webpage. Note: The Save features vary from one web browser to the next. Consult your web browser's help files for specific information on the features available in your current web browser. Following are some general observations for the Netscape and Internet Explorer web browsers. Netscape (PC and Mac) Netscape supports saving webpages as text files or as webpages (HTML) files. Select Save As from the File menu. Web graphics are not downloaded with the webpage. Web images can be saved by positioning the cursor so that it is superimposed on the image. Then, hold down the right mouse button of a PC and the mouse button on a Mac. A pop-up menu will appear giving you the option of saving the image. Internet Explorer (PC and Mac) The current versions of Internet Explorer support saving webpages in a webpage complete (PC) or web archive (Mac) format. This format automatically saves all associated graphics along with the webpage. Internet Explorer also allows the user to save only the text of the webpage. Web images can be saved individually by positioning the cursor so that it is superimposed on the image. Then, hold down the right mouse button of a PC and the mouse button on a Mac. Select Save Image As or Download Image from the menu that appears. back

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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Downloading Webpages A person conducting research in a library has several options for taking information back home with them. They can photocopy relevant pages from a book or journal, take notes, memorize the information or check the books out from the library. Web searching offers several of those research options as well. You can easily print the contents of a webpage. You can take notes or memorize important facts. You can download the webpages and save them to a hard disk or floppy disk for later reference. However, web searching offers one powerful option not found in a library. The web searcher can bookmark the website, leave the document and return to it at any time with the click of a button. Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson’s dreams have come true. Well, most of the time… I’m sure that you have bookmarked a webpage only to return later and find that the webpage is no longer available or has been moved to another location on the web. This happens with annoying regularity on the web. Since there are no librarians around to make sure that all the documents are managed in an orderly fashion, chaos reigns. You will have to decide how important the website that you have found is to your research. If you can’t do without it, it is best to print or save the webpage. Note: The Save features vary from one web browser to the next. Consult your web browser's help files for specific information on the features available in your current web browser. Following are some general observations for the Netscape and Internet Explorer web browsers. Netscape (PC and Mac) Netscape supports saving webpages as text files or as webpages (HTML) files. Select Save As from the File menu. Web graphics are not downloaded with the webpage. Web images can be saved by positioning the cursor so that it is superimposed on the image. Then, hold down the right mouse button of a PC and the mouse button on a Mac. A pop-up menu will appear giving you the option of saving the image. Internet Explorer (PC and Mac) The current versions of Internet Explorer support saving webpages in a webpage complete (PC) or web archive (Mac) format. This format automatically saves all associated graphics along with the webpage. Internet Explorer also allows the user to save only the text of the webpage. Web images can be saved individually by positioning the cursor so that it is superimposed on the image. Then, hold down the right mouse button of a PC and the mouse button on a Mac. Select Save Image As or Download Image from the menu that appears. back

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Jan. 1, 2002 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.