website question

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Hi. We designed an ecommerce website using a company called Business Catalyst, which offers WYSISYG design elements and hosting for ecommerce. Anyway we desgned a site using it but we don't want to use this service anymore. Still we want to keep the overall layout and design.

How do I download the individual pages of the site so that I could have it on my hard drive? I don't know much about FTP so please hep.
Thanks

 

[Jadzia]

Do you mean you want something like LeechGet?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

That sounds good. Do I have to know anything about FTPing or anything?

 

[Jadzia]

No, you can give that software a url/domain name, and tell it to copy the website, and it will download everything it can find, and maintain a working structure that you can browse offline.

There's a firefox plugin that integrates with it, called... flashgot. You may find that useful. That page lists some alternative download managers besides LeechGet.

 

[Mr. B]

If you're going to start running the site yourself, familiarity with FTP is rather critical, IMO.

It's not complicated though. All you need is a client like FileZilla, the website domain name, username and password to log in.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Ok, I have that, but how do I start? I just for right now want to dl and view the pages on my computer. i don't know how to use filezilla.

 

[Jadzia]

Also if the server is running any php or asp scripts to render dynamic content, then you won't be able to grab that with a download manager; you will need an ftp client.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I did it! I was able to connect and down load the pages using FileZilla., and I got all the pages. There is no background color or anyhting, so I don't know how to get that, or how to use the CSS but I'm halfway there!

Thanks again!

 

[Mr. B]

You probably already have it, but the pages likely still point to locations on the previous server.