I need to get part of a website onto a USB sick at will

This is trivial to do using the command-line program 'wget' which is available for pretty much every OS (I think there are even GUI versions for Windows/Mac, and I suspect that a lot of offline browsing tools are built around it). It has a fairly complex syntax and can do a lot of stuff (including random waits between pages, spoofing client-types, etc.) but in its most basic forms it will pull down pages, turn them into static HTML, and rewrite their links to reflect the local hierarchy so you can browse them. Particularly if you want to script something that will work as part of a bigger system, I think it's what you want.

Uh, it seems like the OP is looking for something web-based. So, options.... - Just let them download normal, rendered web pages. Create a page in ASP, and change the HTTP headers ("application/octet-stream" might work) so that browsers will, by default, download instead of view the page. - Make a special page with some AJAX so that it contains multiple pages, and do the same header trick - Make a page which is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML so it'll be self-contained but will only work in the devil's browser. Notes: It doesn't matter if it's a USB stick or anything else, it's just download pages, from what it looks like. You could also, if you were crazy, package a small web server in the download, but that probably doesn't make sense.

Does not need to be web-based actually. PC based is the need- and this could even be something that saves the pages as PDFs - I'm looking into wget now. Thanks all so far

It seems like an overly complicated way to connect with customers instead of a simple web-based store site. Was the owner of the company selling access to these thumb drives as an exclusive thing? (were the thumb drives themselves part of the business income?)

Hey Matt nice to hear from you- this is simply a way for my client to give their regularly updated product catalog (the website is the most regularly updated catalog) to the customer's sales reps and knowing that the reps have the client's catalog easily at hand, whether they have an internet connection or not. The client's customer accounts for 60% of their business so when the customer asks for something, the client usually tries to oblige. I am guessing the customer gets this sort of thing from other vendors.

I found http://www.httrack.com/ and its a perfect solution. Seems like a WGet type program with a nice GUI. It was able to download my site and make all links recursive, and it worked beautifully. Also has a cool update feature.