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In addition to having the option of saving a single page, you also have the
option of saving an entire Web site. Now as you might imagine, this can
be a very extensive, not to mention time-consuming, thing to do. My site,
ResearchBuzz, has thousands of pages. So when you open the save site
dialog you get a window similar to the save page window, but it asks you
how many “levels down” you want to save. Be sure to use the “Advanced”
dialog, which lets you specify what kind of iles you want to download
(just Web pages, or PDF iles, .doc iles, etc.), the maximum number of
iles you want to download, and how you want Onfolio to respond to
timeouts ( Figure 13.13 ).
Figure 13.13
be sure to use the
advanced options if
you save an entire site!
You'll want to set limits
on how much you
download.
Like Surfulater, Onfolio ofers the ability to organize your saved materials
into folders, and again they're keyword-searchable. Right-clicking on an
item you've saved gives you the option to do a variety of things, includ-
ing lagging the item with one of many colors, editing comments, export-
ing the contents, or even “blogging” the item you've found ( Figure 13.14 ).
(You need to conigure what blog you use in Onfolio; supported platforms
include Blogger, LiveJournal, and TypePad.)
I can't imagine too many scenarios where you'd want to save the entire
contents of a Web site. Perhaps if you're doing competitive intelligence and
want to go through a company's Web site and see what they have, or if you
ind an online library and ind all the contents very relevant and very use-
ful. If you save entire Web sites, be sure to put a maximum page download