Saving a website for posterity

[onedaddycat]

Hi,

I have a friend that Died in a recent traffic accident, and He had his own website with lots of information I would like to preserve.

His website was on Tripod and he was the only person with his login information. So with no activity, I don't know how long tripod will leave the site up.

My question is, what is the easiest way to go about saving this information?

I thought about clearing my temp Internet files then going to every page in his site, and afterward moving the files from my temp directory to a more secure location.

But would that work if they were moved? Is there an easier or better way?

Thanks for your help

-Craig

[Welshjim]

onedaddycat--I assume you access the site. If so, save each page by IE File|Save As...|File Type--Web Archive (.mht).
I would not put these .mht files in Temporary Internet Files (or any other Temp folder) since it is too easy to delete these. (In fact Windows often deletes them automatically after a certain number of days.)
Rather make a folder somewhere else (like My Documents?) and put all the .mht files there.

[DuaneB]

Here's a "Web Crawler" (freeware):
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/54400.html

[flachebaq]

If you want to recover the login information, you can always have TriPod send the login information to his e-mail. Most sites have some kind of password recovery option. If you can get to his e-mail account, you can get the login information that way.

[DVOM]

If you can get access to his email account, you've also probably got access to his computer. He's nearly for sure got the entire site on his machine.

However, Welshjim's suggestion to just save each page will work fine. If you save it as HTML you'll get two things with each page. The HTML and another folder with the images.

I've been saving other peoples pages like this so I could open them in Dreamweaver just to see how they're put together. It's a good way to see other peoples methods of creating sites.

[ecross]

If you can get access to his email account, you've also probably got access to his computer.

Not unless it's web based.

[Welshjim]

DVOM--I suggested saving as Web Archive (.mht file) since you produce only one file per page and do not have to worry about keeping together the file and folder which you get when you save as .htm.
(.mht files are also easier to email.)

[ecross]

Welshjim, I see why you suggested to save it as a .mht file. I think it would be better though to save each page as .htm or .html (a webpage). If onedaddycat plans to maintain the website, then I wouldn't recommend saving the file as .mht. You'll probably have to save the pictures as well.

[Welshjim]

ecross--Unless you know how to do it, I do not think you can save a whole website in one operation as .mht. You have to do it page by page. But you do get all the graphics when you save as .mht.
The only difference I can see between .mht and .htm is that you wind up will only one file per page, which is easier to manage.