Freeware Tools: WinHTTrack Website Copier 3.48

HTTrack is a free (open source) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site´s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads.

The Internet is nowadays accessible from almost any corner of the world, it only depends on the connection type that is available in one region or another. Sometimes, when no connectivity is available, browsing a website can still be done, provided that an offline copy has been previously created.

Besides the webpage saving capabilities offered by all major web browser out there, once can try a dedicated software solution like WinHTTrack Website Copier.

A very easy to use application, that requires minimal configuration upon installation, you can use this tool to create full copies of websites you would like to visit even if the network or Internet connection is temporarily down or simply not available.

WinHTTrack Website Copier creates locally the entire structure of the target website and you can set parameters like the mirroring or external depth and thus choose how far you want to program to crawl and fetch the needed content.

As soon as the process is completed, you will be able to browse the domain just like you would if it were online. From page to page, with all the images, HTML and other content at hand, you will hardly notice any difference from the real thing when exploring a locally mirrored website.

The great thing about WinHTTrack Website Copier is that it offers you the possibility to have saved webpages updated when an Internet connection is available, thus ensuring you have the latest content saved onto your hard drive.

To sum things up, for anyone who used the software at least once, it's pretty clear that it can hardly get better than this. WinHTTrack Website Copier performs admirably and, thanks to its powerful feature set and ease of use, it is actually the recommended tool for beginners.