Can't he/you just get permission to ftp everything? This is BY FAR the
easiest way to handle this. Scraping the site will be too difficult,
especially if they have javascript (I'm assuming you meant javascript
and not java... they're not the same). You won't be able to just copy
it to your server and work. Try to contact the manufacturer's
webmaster and ask for a copy of the entire site on CD. Shouldn't be
more than a 5 minute task for the webmaster.
As far as getting the links to work... if they didn't make their website
in a template driven way (like using Dreamweaver templates or
libraries), or worse, if they didn't use relative links!, then as far as
I can see, you have two options... 1. start changing every link manually
2. hire a programmer to spider the site, changing links on the fly,
programatically. I've been using a Java program called HtmlParser
(http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/) for a few years now, and it has
that capability. However, you need to know how to program Java... it's
not an end user application.
I wish I had an easy answer for you, but I'm afraid I don't! Sorry.
Joe Brandt wrote:
>A friend of mine has become a distributor of electrical wire. The
>Manufacturer told him it would be ok for him to copy their website,
>change the contacts etc to his new company and use it as his.
>
>They have a fairly large site with quite a bit of java. I tried using
>kwebget to bring in the site and edit it in Composer. None of the links
>work without resetting each one up and the java does not work.
>
>Does any know of an easy way or program to do this (note: I have zero
>programming ability or knowledge so it must be wysiwyg)
>
>Thank You
>Joe Brandt
>
>
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