Importing and Altering a Web Site, for Dummies
January 30, 2008 8:09 AM 
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I want to download an institutional web page and change it a little bit for a job interview. I have Frontpage and NVU. But when I try to capture the page my computer bogs down and stops responding. Help!
I have a job interview coming up--yay me! I would be the academic/educator at a technology/humanities institution. Part of my job talk is supposed to include my ideas for public outreach. At that point I want to show them a version of their own website that I have altered a bit with new content areas. They don't have to actually function--I just want to show my interviewers that I have thought of this and how the site might look.
Anyway, yesterday I tried to import the site into Frontpage. It took a damn long time, but eventually I was able to edit the page and make some changes. But everything was slow slow slow, and when I went to save the computer froze up completely. I went home and tried to do the same thing with NVU and had similar results.
I assume that what is happening is that Frontpage is importing way more data from the site than I actually need and that my computer can't handle the huge files. Really, I just want to change the menu bar on the front page of the site and to replace one content field.
Is there a way to import only the first page of the site (if that is the problem)? Is there a clever shortcut that I don't know about? This is not a major part of my job talk and I am not ready to go and learn DreamWeaver or something like that this week. Thanks.
On IE, use the "Save as..." option on the "Page" pull-down menu. On Mozilla, use the "Save page as" choice on the "File" pull-down menu.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 8:15 AM on January 30 [1 favorite]