Need to put site of CD instead of a catalogue

[chris ashdown]

I know I asked this question last year but hope someone has solved the problems by now

I get many requests for a catalogue, but due to the expense do not produce one.

What I would like to do is send a cd or dvd of the site without the ability to order so they can browse at home or work without being online

I would have thought many others are in the same situation on this request.

Hopefully expecting a miracle

[pinbrook]

Without knowing the details - I think you can do something like create a pdf file from the site HTML folder and burn to disk

[NormanRouxel]

I posted on getting the PreviewHTML system onto a CD. You lose the Search capability but otherwise can do pretty much the usual Preview offline. See http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=10087

Also Jo's suggestion could be easier if you have a smallish site.

Look at your live site as usual in a browser, then "Print" each product page (forget the other pages) to a PDF file ("widgets.pdf, lefthanded.pdf, etc).

Now make a single HTML page index.html containing e.g.

<a href="widgets.pdf" target="_product">Widgets</a><br>
<a href="lefthanded.pdf" target="_product">Left Handed Stuff</a><br>
etc.

Put that index.html and all the PDF's onto a CD.

Now the customer can open index.html (or setup the CD to Autorun it) and will have an index of each Product page that when clicked will open a PDF in a new window.

[chris ashdown]

Many thanks Norman and Jo I will give it a try as soon as I find a good PDF converter that isn't to expensive, any recomendations anyone as I cannot afford Adobe for such a small job

[jont]

Hi Chris,

there is a tool called EASYPDF 2 which creates PDF files from HTML files and Microsoft Office files. This was being given away free on .NET cover disk #125. It retails at only £28.00 - I assume there must be a version 3 available now hence the free giveaway on version 2 - may be worth checking out the .NET website to see if the download is still there

[webyourbusiness]

If you have the time to make the effort, I'd alter all the form called to be absolute references to your web site - but relative on everything else... strip out any base hrefs and use the FTP version altered in this way on your CD - that way your "offline" catalog could allow ordering via an internet connection!

PDF would even be able to work this way - and for someone with a connection, the search would also work (but then take them to the "online" store).

hth

Greg

[chris ashdown]

Many thanks folks I will check it out