Webpage Downloading Tips

Simplest way to download is to use FTP on my domain name, www.brainout.net. Whatever isn't password protected will download. So far I've got no sensitive data on the websites, but if I ever do, you wouldn't be able to download it anyway. So just use FTP.

For 2009 et seq. revision history, you can get instant "blog" news on webpage changes via brainoutlordpagesupdate.blogspot.com. The changes are now infrequent, excepting mistakes I find in webpage text. Thus new pages or major webpage revisions can be automatically fed to you via RSS. Thus you needn't check for updates. For 2008, use the "Jump to", and select that old blog.

Navigation tip: if your operating system is XP or Win98 (any version), save the webpage to a floppy disk or CD, not the hard drive. Then, copy FROM that location TO the hard drive; else, the intra-page links won't work (it's a quirk in XP and Win98). This is a real time-saver for intense webpages like NTKeys.htm and SatStrat.htm, which are long and have many intra-page links. That tip might also help you with other folks' webpages. Often in HTML programming, one writes the intra-page links with different code, which doesn't require you re-visit the internet. I follow that convention in my intra-page links. But unless you first download AWAY from the hard drive and thence TO the hard drive, that special code won't "tell" Windows that the links are all on the same page. Maybe that bug is fixed in later service packs (after Service Pack 2) or in Vista, I don't know.

If somehow that tip doesn't work, try this: rename the file with a "txt" extension, copy it, then rename it again with the .htm extension at the destination. Then copy the page from the destination to where you want it to reside. If you're still having trouble doing this, email me. I can just send you the webpage as an attachment. McAfee scans all my email through Comcast, so you should be as protected as possible. I will not keep your email address, and will not write you again unless you write me. That protects your privacy.

I don't know what MAC systems do. But when I buy my next computer, it will be on a Linux or MAC OS system. (I absolutely detest Windows, and will never upgrade again.) So at that point, I'll put any MAC download tips here.

Sometimes I find the colors and backgrounds of 'my' webpages annoying. A simple way to get rid of the backgrounds, is to copy the .htm to another location. Then the "_files" are missing, in which case you'll get the page's default colors (which are usually pale flat yellow or pale flat flesh). Much easier to read, sometimes. I do this with any annoying webpages I save from the internet (especially those annoying black-background pages). It's a relief. You can also click on the "Accessibility" button in Tools Options, and then check "Ignore colors", if you want to delete font colors as well as the background colors. In that case, you don't have to copy the .htm to another location, and can just undo the above "Accessibility" steps, to restore the colors.

Font downloads: XP Home or Professional Edition doesn't carry forward some of the fonts I use from prior editions of Windows. For example, there's the Win98SE font named "Lithograph", which I use a lot. Its ttf name is lithogrb.ttf, so copy it from an old Win98SE backup, if you upgraded. Same problem, for two other fonts, Folio MD BT and Ruach LET -- these are respectively named foliom.ttf and ruachn.TTF (capitalized extension, on Ruach). XP has restored Trebuchet MS, which I also use a lot. That font was on some Win98 editions, but not others. If you can't get these fonts, try downloading them from a page I created: WhichFonts.htm. BibleWorks lets you download their fonts for free, so long as you always use their copyright notice (which is on their download page). So in WhichFonts.htm, is a link to their font download page. Soon, I'll post in the brainBlogUpd.html, when I put the BibleWorks fonts in 'my' webpages. (Idea is, to see the actual original-language text side-by-side with whatever's said about it, for faster analysis.)

If you read anybody's long webpages regularly, you might want a downloader. A downloader is a special program which not only downloads the page you specify as the 'start', but ALL (or user-specified) links RELATED to that page. So if you picked someone's HOME page, you can download both it and up to every 'branching' page it references. So with a downloader you can download all my webpages, at once. Or, anyone else's.

There are a number of free downloaders on the web. If you use a downloader (like Teleport Pro) for my webpages, please specify the Home Page as the START for downloading, but EXCLUDE "Indindex.htm" from the download. The downloader will want to know how many links "deep" to choose. The number of links deep to download from Home Page should probably be "3", to catch most if not all of my webpages. That means, you're downloading all branching pages from the Home page, to the thirdmost deep link: from 1) Home Page link to 2) the links in that link to 3) the links in those links.

Here's why you must EXCLUDE Indindex.htm from downloading programs. Inindex links to nearly every major university and seminary (religious and historical) database in the United States, and many others throughout the world; so if you download THAT page with a downloading program, you'll download forever. So just "Save" the Indindex.htm page separately, using your browser.