After Portable Offline Browser is installed and running for the first time there are three simple steps to offline browsing.

Step 1. Creating a new Project for downloading.

The Project defines from which web page the download should start and how many pages Portable Offline Browser should download for you.

By default you get a New Project Wizard screen when you run Portable Offline Browser. If it doesn't show, click the Wizard button on the Ribbon - Home tab and follow the steps to create a Project. At the end of the Wizard you will be prompted to start downloading the new Project. The newly created Project will be added to the Projects tree on the left side of the Portable Offline Browser screen.

Step 2. Waiting for the download to complete.

The new Project will be created and will start downloading. The green arrow on the Project icon indicates that the download goes on. When the download completes the green arrow disappears.

Once the download has been started, Portable Offline Browser begins loading files referenced by the Project URL (starting address). Every link in the file is checked against the limits set in the Project Properties: Level, File Types, File Sizes, URL Filters, etc. Since Portable Offline Browser downloads a limited number of files at one time, other files are placed in the Queue to wait for the download. The Status bar displays the number of processed (downloaded) files and the number of files waiting in the Queue. When all files are downloaded and no files are left in Project Queue, the Project download is complete.

Step 3. Viewing downloaded files offline.

Now the web site is available for browsing off line. Right-click the downloaded Project and select Browse. Portable Offline Browser will detect the best way to display the site, either in Internal browser or in your default WWW browser.

You may repeat steps 1-3 at any time. Portable Offline Browser supports creation of an almost unlimited number of Projects, which could be downloaded in parallel.

There is also an easy semi-manual way to download Web sites for offline browsing. Click here to read more about it.

For more details about working with Portable Offline Browser, go to the Using Portable Offline Browser section