AFV Interiors Closing

This is sad news indeed. His site has been extremely useful on many occasions.

Robert,
thanks for the heads up.
i have used the site quite a bit, and sent others there for help w/ their questions.
it's really going to be missed!

I used that site quite a few times, and gathered much info from it. It's sad that it won't be around any longer.

Wahhhhhhh!


M.

Regrettable news indeed. This information will be difficult to find elsewhere.

This is very sad. AFV Interiors is hands down one of the best reference sites for both
WW2 and modern AFVs. I've used it many times.
I'll make sure I download as many of the pages as possible in case I ever build models of those
AFVs.

Maybe someone with more spare time and/or bandwidth would be able to carry on Mike's work. (NOT me unfortunately,
I don't even think I have the webspace for all those pictures, let alone the bandwidth)
Would he mind if someone else used his pictures and text on their own site?

just let me go to my favourite corner of the room and cry

I wonder how he'd feel about it beng mirrored? Wouldn't be that hard to do. I'd be willing to do it if he gave permission, as long as one or two people helped me out. We could stick it on a free-hosting site like Tripod. Anyone with html skills game to assist?

QUOTE: by Larry_Dunn I'd be willing to do it if he gave permission, as long as one or two people helped me out. Anyone with html skills game to assist?

Sure.

A tip on easy downloading of text and pictures from AFVInteriors for those who want to do a fast download. (Only for those who are not yet aware of this easy procedure..)

Go the the page desired. When the entire page have been downloaded to your computer (meaning all pictures and texts are showing already)...Click File in the upper left corner of the Internet Explorer window then click Save As.

Choose Webpage, Complete (Htm, Html) in the "Save as Type" option box and choose the location where you want to store your file.

Then hit the button Save.

This procedure will enable you to download the Htm or html file (where the text and description are located) as well as a folder housing all the pictures on the page.

Once downloaded, you may click on the Htm or Html file and it will open like an ordinary web page from your browser including the pictures. This will may it look as if you have the AFVInteriors site in your hard drive.

This will certainly beat saving the pics one by one.

Hope this helps.

Great idea...thanks Dwight! I too am very sorry to hear of this news....I've visited his site many times as well.

Regards, Dan

BTW...the site takes about 200Mb of space only and with broadband...about 3 hours to download factoring in the human factor for changing pages, making new folders, etc.

Interesting technique, I'll try that. I'm trying to get as much of it before it goes away...

QUOTE: by Dwight Ta-ala A tip on easy downloading of text and pictures from AFVInteriors for those who want to do a fast download. .... When the entire page have been downloaded to your computer...Click File in the upper left corner of the Internet Explorer window then click Save As. This will certainly beat saving the pics one by one. Hope this helps.

Yes it did. Totally worked and I got all of it, now on CD.
For MAC users, just hit 'Apple S' [apple key and letter s] then 'return'.

i have never seen this site before, sad that it wont be around for much longer. i might be able to help out with the web site, i have some experiance with dream weaver (a program used to create web sites) it is what i used to build my bf1942 mod site, teh free site i used has no banners and no pop ups until u leave the site, and then a pop up comes up behind the internet one advertiseing the free site page. you can see my site at the bottom of my post next to profile. the great thing about dream weaver is that you can make it in text, and woziwig (sp? basicly you can see what you are doing).

Dwight,
i followed your tip above, and set up folders for the different nations,
and within each a folder for the vehicles.
the 'save as' function created new subfolders for each page,
(like stug1_files, stug2_files, etc)
where i thought that the image files would go.
but after i was done, the new folders were empty!
the images did not copy to them, even tho when i was saving,
it looked like they were !!

so now if i look at the page on my PC, i get the dreaded red x for each pic.
any ideas?

I wrote to the site owner about mirroring, but he says the right to the material on the site would make a mirror too complicated. Oh well.

Larry - thanks for the update.

i was going to make a cd of the pages for personal use,
but i cannot get the pics to download in the manner Dwight advised.
they just don't seem to copy to that directory.

Here's what I did, I followed Dwight's suggestion but make sure you check "make page available offline" then I had to click on each link of the web page then after you get a new page click on tools then synchronize. That copies each page link to your local drive so you can view the web page offline. Hope you can follow that.

Joe

The other option is to "Select All" from the Edit key for each page and copy. They paste it into a word document. Then save it to your HD or a CD.

This is a great site and will be sorely missed. If someone has this site on Cd I sure would like to buy a copy. That may be a way to keep the site up and running. Anyway, if there is a copy available please email me @ tedman111@adelphia.net.

Thanks,

Ted

Joe,
i cannot find where to set the 'make page aailable offline' that you mention.
don't know if it is a function of my OS or the Internet Exploder browser.

EDIT - ok -- i got it. if i save it as a web archive i get it all.

Ted,
it would definitely be illegal to sell.
probably could be given away.
tho even that would likely violate the letter of the 'personal use' stricture on the site.

Sorry, didn't mean to make problems.

Ted

QUOTE: Originally posted by wildwilliam *snip* Internet Exploder browser. *snip*

LOL

Here are more tips, including how to make web pages availabel for offline browsing...

To save a Web page on your computer

On the File menu, click Save As.
Double-click the folder you want to save the page in.
In the File name box, type a name for the page.
In the Save as type box, select a file type.

Do one of the following:
To save all of the files needed to display this page, including graphics, frames, and style sheets, click Web Page, complete. This option saves each file in its original format.

To save all of the information needed to display this page in a single MIME-encoded file, click Web Archive. This option saves a snapshot of the current Web page. This option is available only if you have installed Outlook Express 5 or later.

To save just the current HTML page, click Web Page, HTML only. This option saves the information on the Web page, but it does not save the graphics, sounds, or other files.

To save just the text from the current Web page, click Text Only. This option saves the information on the Web page in straight text format.
Notes

With Web Page, complete and Web Archive, you can view all of the Web page offline, without adding the page to your Favorites list and marking it for offline viewing.

Making pages available for offline viewing

When you make a Web page available offline, you can read its content when your computer is not connected to the Internet. For example, you can view Web pages on your laptop computer when you don't have a network or Internet connection. Or you can read Web pages at home without tying up a phone line.

You can specify how much content you want available, such as just a page, or a page and all its links, and choose how you want to update that content on your computer.

If you just want to view a Web page offline, and you don't need to update the content, you can save the page on your computer. There are several ways you can save the Web page, from just saving the text to saving all of the images and text needed to display that page as it appears on the Web.


To make the current Web page available offline

On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.
Select the Make available offline check box.
To specify a schedule for updating that page, and how much content to download, click Customize.
Follow the instructions on your screen.

Dwight,
thanks again!
i did see the part abt using Favorites to make the page available offline,
but i did not relish the thought of adding each page of all those vehicles to my list!

i have everything saved but the US & Russia.
which i will start on today.

Hey not to beat this topic to death but if you take my suggestion and synchronize each page then when you clean out your cookies and files you will loose what you synchronized. Just a warning that's what happened to me.
Sorry for the bad advise

Joe

It did huh?
I'm going to my friends computer today and open the CD on a their 'PC' and then on their 'MAC'. If it all still works then I think It's cool.

in the category of 'how clever am i (NOT!)'
i made a cd of the pages at work.
EDIT
but the burner i made it on recorded it at a high speed,
and my older home PC won't read it!
try, try again . . . .

ah the ravings of a lunatic.
as it turns out, my home cd player/burner WILL read it, but NOT the dvd/cd drive.
so i am good to go.