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What does "offline" mean?
Offline refers to work you carry out on your local drives, as opposed to the time you might spend doing the same thing whilst connected to the internet. An Offline browser is software which allows you to view web pages residing on your machine rather than on the internet. Authors TitleViewer is an offline browser which has been optimised for the automated viewing of large and organised collections of HTML files. The term "web" usually describes a collection of HTML pages. The term "World Wide Web" referring to the multitude of HTML (web pages) on the internet. An offline web is therefore a collection of web pages on a local drive. We use this term to refer to a collection of files which have been placed in a series of sub-folders. Rather than a "flat" collection of web pages ( which is what you usually find at a web site ), a hierarchical web is highly organised with access to the individual files nested according to the layering of the sub-folders.
You might be wondering what the benefits of arranging web files hierarchically are. The benefits are subtle to appreciate, but immensely useful. By arranging your files hierarchically into folders like this, you quickly organise your information in a way which makes sense to you, and your readership - whoever that may be. Clearly, if you have information to present to anyone you can now:
An entire offline web can be compressed into a single file for distribution or download.
The implications of this are subtle and far-ranging. Other categories of this web will sketch the commercial and professional benefits of publishing with offline webs but you might wish to consider the demo you are viewing first. If its persuading you to get published, maybe it can prove an equally persuasive medium for your product, service or information?
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