CD Format

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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 http//www.phdcc.com/conference-c
  d/templates.htm

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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

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Example with same template but different page body
Presentation converted to web page form
Changes
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Standard template user interface contents page
Header line Title Home Index Search Help

• Body
• File link
• Folder

Footer Top Index Search Crumb trail
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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

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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
• A confcd.htm contents page in each of your
  folders
• A confcd folder with the Conference-CD runtime,
  index, search, contact, help
• An AutoRun file is also made in the CD root

Website
index.htmconfcd.htm
confcd
Template files Runtime Index index.htm Search
search.htm Contact contact.htm Help info.htm
CD Root
Talk1
Runtime confcd Contents confcd.htm Talk1.ppt Day1
AUTORUN.INF
Various files
Day1
Talk2
confcd.htm Talk2.ppt
Various files
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Optional introduction in the contents page for
each folder
Optional introduction

• 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

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Templates used

• Main templatebasic.htt
• Search templatesearchen.htt
• Help templateinfo.htt
• Contact templatecontact.htt

Contents pages confcd.htm
Alphabetic index confcd\index.htm
as body
Help confcd\info.htm
as body
Contact confcd\contact.htm
as body
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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
  headerltMETA HTTP-EQUIV"Content-Type" CONTENT"
  text/html charsetUTF-8"gt
• All characters in the template files must be in
  UTF-8Use Windows 2000/XP Notepad.

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Templates

• To be continued
• See http//www.phdcc.com/conference-cd/templates.h
  tm