Back to Home Page...In Lieu of a Book...
I have received many requests to put this website into a
book. I sense a frustation in having to download and save each page of this very
large site.
Advantage(s) of a book over a cd or dvd version:
It has taken me years and thousands of hours to put it all
together and I certainly would not relish the time it would take to download it
page by page either.
Putting it all into a book is a good idea. However the
sticking point is my having the time to do it. I simply cannot do it for that
reason among others.
However I have a great solution that was suggested
by a dear new-found friend. He is a teacher and many of his students do not have
a computer that is online in order to go and visit the site. He asked my
permission to put the whole website onto a cd rom and pass a cd to each of his
pupils.
I thought that was a great idea and wondered why I had not thought of
it myself. Of course I gave him permission and he sent me a copy and it was just
like visiting the site online but much faster than even DSL.
But what
about downloading that whole website the first time and the hours it would take
for one person to do it all?
Well wouldn't it make sense to delegate the
downloads to several people, with each downloading a different section?
Yes,
that would help, but I have a much better solution.
There are free programs
available that will download an entire website into your computer.
One such
is:
http://www.httrack.com/
All you have to do is to download the
version which best fits your computer and run it.
Then tell it the address of
the website that you wish to download and tell it where to put it in your
computer, preferably a new directory (folder).
Then just sit back and watch
Httrack do all of the work.
After that all you have to do is to write
it out to a cd or dvd and make copies.
1. No computer is needed,
so you can read the book at anytime and in any place.
Advantages of a cd or dvd over a book version:
1. Cost. A blank cd would
cost less than twenty cents. A book of the size needed for this website would
cost several dollars.
2. A cd takes up much less space than a book.
3. A
cd would be much easier to update compared to having to buy an updated
book.
4. A cd or dvd will run exactly like the site runs online. You cannot
jump from page to page easily (page flipping) from a book.
5. You can make as
many copies as are needed for your students and friends.
You cannot do this with a book. You would have to buy more books.
6. You can
print out as many pages that are important to you, to take to Bible studies
or pass out to friends.
If you wish, you can make an autorun cd where as soon as you load the cd the
index.htm or main page will come right up,
so you would not have to open it
manually.
In order to do this you will have to make two simple text files
and add them to the cd.
Here is how to do it using a text editor or word
processor:
For the first file write...
@echo Loading CD
@start
index.htm
@cls
@exit
Label the first file autorun.bat and write it
out to the cd rom.
For the second file
write...
[autorun]
open=autorun.bat
Label this second file
autorun.inf and write it out to the cd rom.
If you have done this
correctly, just by inserting your cd into the drive,
the first page
(index.htm) should automatically come up.
If you do not wish to incorporate
the autorun feature then simply insert the cd into the drive
and open the
index.htm file with your browser.
Either way, the website will perform
exactly as you see it online except that it will be much faster.
©
Compiled by Bob Stanley, March 31,
2010
"Have I then become your
enemy, because I told you the truth?"
Galatians 4:16