I wish to make a CD with the content of www.thecoffeeguide.org . 
The website is operated by the UN-organization ITC. The CD is to be used
by me for training of people in areas without access to Internet.
The website is simple in structure. It has three main categories of content:
111. Ca. 500 text boxes/pages. The texts can be put together in long
text-strings. One for each of the 12 chapters (by clicking on top of
text boxes).
222. Ca. 75 Questions and Answers in a Q&A Archive.
333. Various general information (of less importance) in the menu-drop
down to the left.
Could you guide me on how a CD version could be made - step by step ? 
Preferably in a manner so I can do it myself. 
I have access to a computer with CD read-write facility, but I have
never used it, so guidance has to include basic steps. And I can
easily consult people with advanced facilities for burning CDs, but I
wish to know what to ask for.
A friend said that I could just use HTTrack, but I do not know what that is. 
Or I could install the whole lot on a laptop, I was told, and thereby
include the dynamic parts of the website. Guidance on that option is
also welcome, but it is the CD version which is most urgent.
Copyright is not a problem as I know the people behind the website.
They encourage my plan, but do not have time to assist me.

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Clarification of Question by alsinger-ga on 12 Mar 2006 10:23 PST

To several of you -
Thanks the hints so far. 
Am experimenting at present and will try to revert in one way or the other shortly
Alsinger-ga.
12 March.........

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Clarification of Question by alsinger-ga on 19 Mar 2006 11:49 PST

Dear All who gave a hint,
I have tried a number of times with Offline Explorer and despite a
couple of hints from friends who know this stuff better than I do I
did not succeed.
The website is www.thecoffeeguide.org but I was encouraged by
techniciens to use www.intracen.org/thecoffeeguide for the download as
www.thecoffeeguide.org is just a cover-name which is easy to remember
- but users are then transferred to the other site.
The website is in English, French and Spanish (+99% the same in three
versions), but I can do with a CD of English only for the moment.
The website has three main elements:
1. Static parts with a few menu-drop-downs.  Maybe 15 pages or that magnitude.
2. 500 text boxes - ca. one page each. Ca. five photos - otherwise text.
3. A list of Questions and Answers. Ca. 80 pages.
In my many down-load attempts I reached a version where I got 1. and
3. fine but never got 2. on board.  Not sure, but I have a feeling
that the total of 1., 2. and 3. might take up 1-2 GB, i.e. more than
the ca. 700 MB which most CDs can carry. So maybe a DVD with capacity
of (I think around) 4 GB is needed ?
I have not found time to try wget as one of you suggested. 
If I were to use the offer one of you came with - to have the CD (or
DVD ?) prepared - what are then the practicalities ?  Asking for two
reasons:
1. How do I pay the XX US$ for the CD/DVD and postal costs ?  
I could of course send cash by ordinary mail - which would be fine with me.
2. Is there not a rule in Answers.google that one should not write who
one is - apart from the user-name ?  So how and where should I convey
my name and address - and how do I get to know where to send the
payment ?
I am based in Europe - just for your info. 
Thanks in advance for your advise.
Alsinger, 19 March

The site you are trying to copy uses Javascript...unless you are
comfortable decoding where each script points HTTrack won't do the job
(I just downloaded it and tried it out for you...)

I'll keep looking

Just installed and tried Offline Explorer 4.1.2327 on the site in
question and it seems to work well...you can get Offline Explorer
4.1.2327 at Download.com (a trusted site for downloads)...
http://www.download.com/Offline-Explorer/3640-2377_4-10498708.html?v=1&tag=tab_ur


Make sure you have some time. This took about 1 hour on a 100k connection.

After installing...

Run and choose the following:

Project URL http://www.intracen.org/thecoffeeguide
Project Name: The Coffee Guide
Next
Deselect Levels Limit
Next 
Next
Next
Next

Let it run.

Once done :

Offline Explorer doesn't contain CD writing code itself, but it can
prepare downloaded Web site (Project) for easy CD burning.

Please select the desired Project and select File | Export from the
main menu. This will copy loaded site to some directory which should
be later burned to a CD-R or CD-RW disk. In the Export dialog it is
recommended to select "Joliet - CD-R 64 symbols" in the Filenames
format field.

You can also make AutoRun CD, which will be automatically browsed when
you insert the disk. Make sure that the "Create contents file" is
checked for easier browsing from the CD.

Thats it!

Good Luck.

You can use wget for downloading the whole site offline.

You should use a offline browser (e.g. www.httrack.com/  ) to download
the whole site, and then burn the data on CDs for distribution.

If you find no way for download the site, I can do it for you.

If you have a "retail" version of Adobe Acrobat (i.e. not the free
reader, but a version that can make a PDF), you can import an entire
website into a single PDF with working links.

To do this, start Adobe Acrobat and do this: Click on "File -> Create
PDF -> From webpage" (this varies a bit between Adobe versions). Enter
the URL (http://www.....) and check the "get entire site" box. You
should wind up with one large PDF file with working links, photos,
etc. You can put the free Adobe Acrobat reader program on the CD along
with this large, single PDF so the user can install the free reader if
needed.

I have used this to quickly "archive" an existing webpage so I can see
how it was before I made some updates.

-- Kevin Talbot