Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd CD Format Layout of CDs produced by Conference-CD What folders are on the CD How to use templates to set CD page style Full details:

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Startup screen - contents The CD is primarily viewed using a web browser: All pages have the same look and feel – defined by a template Changes on each slide: Title Optional introduction Slide Body Crumb trail

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Example with same template but different page body Changes: Presentation converted to web page form:

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Standard template user interface – contents page Header line:TitleHomeIndexSearchHelp Footer:TopIndexSearchCrumb trail Body: File link Folder

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Optional screen elements Template is defined using standard HTML – - so ALL screen elements can be changed to what you want. But the page body cannot be changed in some cases, eg slide view Some parts of the template are only used if selected in Conference-CD-Wizard: Alphabetic index Full text search

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd What files and folders are on the CD? All your files and folders are copied to CD Presentations converted to web form have a new folder Conference-CD-Wizard generates: 1.A confcd.htm contents page in each of your folders 2.A confcd folder with the Conference-CD runtime, index, search, contact, help 3.An AutoRun file is also made in the CD root CD Root Day1 Runtime confcd Contents confcd.htm Talk1.ppt Day1 AUTORUN.INF confcd.htm Talk2.ppt Talk2 Talk1 confcd Template files Runtime Index index.htm Search search.htm Contact contact.htm Help info.htm Various files Website index.htm confcd.htm

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Optional introduction in the contents page for each folder Put a file confcd.txt in each source folder File can include HTML No file: no introduction File must be in UTF-8 format: use Notepad: Save As + Encoding UTF-8 Alter template to change this behaviour Optional introduction

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Templates used Main template basic.htt Search template searchen.htt Help template info.htt Contact template contact.htt Contents pages confcd.htm Alphabetic index confcd\index.htm Help confcd\info.htm as body Contact confcd\contact.htm as body

Conference-CD phdcc: PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Internationalisation Internationalisation makes CD work in any language. All template files must use Unicode UTF-8 character set. UTF-8 can represent all possible characters. UTF-8 works in virtually all browsers. The main template file must have a UTF-8 header: All characters in the template files must be in UTF-8: Use Windows 2000/XP Notepad.

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