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This continues
the explanation of the
previous
tutorial, I will be creating the HTML file, or
rendering the Webpage.
As you recall,
I clicked the 'Create HTML' button (see left - I
skipped the FTP step from the
previous tutorial, which is only used to
upload the Webpage to your Internet hosted
space)
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Clicking the
button opens the browse default screen (you can
of course change this location and default
settings in windows), as shown to the left
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Note that the
file is defaulted to 'index' in name (normally
first Website pages are called Index, but if
this is not to be your entry or first page in
the Website you can call it anything that takes
your fancy). Also the file is defaulted to type
'html' (that's a Webpage file).
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I locate the
folder where I want to store my HTML file (in
fact I had none done and created one on the fly
by clicking the folder you see in the picture to
the left, and when the new folder created
appeared (see left pic - part highlighted in
blue)........
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...... I named it,
and by double clicking it, opened it.
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This is the
inside of my created folder called 'Webpages',
where I will be storing my Webpages. I want to
keep the default name of 'index', so I simply
click the 'save' button. (see left picture)
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That's it!
After a quick hourglass, the Webpage opens and
shows me my artistic effort. I was impressed how
quick and how simple. Looks good to.
The top has the
header section as I designed it and the 'body'
or bottom section as the thumbnails (64x64)
neatly displayed.
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If I double
click any thumbnail (see below)
I get a larger
picture loaded in a separate window (see left)
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Note - Those
using IE as a browser and with XP-SP2 Pack
installed, will get the now familiar (to IE)
prompt of a security warning which is telling
you dynamic content is present, do you want to
allow it? Clicking the top banner blue message
dialog present in IE (new addition by SP2 Pack),
one gets the screen shown below where one
'allows blocked content'
and
subsequently one says 'yes' to the running of
the active content (see left picture). So where
are the dynamics?
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There they are
(see left): By hovering your mouse on any of the
thumbnails you get a sprouting load of data
pertaining to that thumbnail picture. This is
great and very useful. Remember that one can
tell the software 'not to show' certain fields
(in the catalogue properties) as when creating
reports, and these would apply in this case of
the HTML. That said, I use the HTML as a
presentational tool for my clients, and where I
have a field such as 'cost to company' that I
prefer my client not to see, I simply tweak the
properties not to include that field. Obviously,
my client gets the HTML file which not only
gives an image of the product I am dealing with
or he/she bought, but on a simple 'hover' of the
mouse, the client gets the data I include, such
as technical specs.
It can actually
be used for a lot of other purposes and results
in a simple clear way to communicate catalogued
contents.
How do I send
the HTML? Well. FTP is an option or any other
form of uploading to a host space (client then
gets the URL and goes to see it) or simply
E-mailing the HTML (this means you have to
include the pictures and the 'Index.htm' file of
course).
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Here's this inside
of the Webpages folder so you can see what the
software did. It placed all the pictures (true
copies of the catalogued pictures, so you can
delete these without affecting the catalogue),
and added the HTML file called 'Index' (the
little Internet File you see in blue (this case
it is Internet Explorer I am using so it is IE's
icon one sees in the left picture).
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