How to create a CD-based site?

[lincoln_stoller]

I am creating a book, which is currently accessed via the web, that I would also like to put on a CD for off-line viewing. To do this I need Dreamweaver to put static URL links that specify the CD and its folder structure in place of the dynamic, or current location references that Dreamweaver currently specifies within the html files.

I can see that other people are doing this, for example when an html catalog is distributed on a CD, but I don't see any instructions. I'm still on DW4 and I'd upgrade if this was supported in DW8. Does anyone know how it's done or where the link conversion process is documented? Thx.

[luisermogt]

Hi Lincoln
I am new in this forum and I have just upgrade from Golive to DWCS4. Start to learning DW. Any way, I found your question about website in CD. We were working in a php/mysql dinamic site in a cd, which works very good. We use a light version of apache/ php 4 / mysql 3.23. An outorun starts the cd and send the browser to a index page embebed in a frame. If is that waht you need, let me know and I will be glad to give you a link to download it.

Greetings.

[lincoln_stoller]

Thanks for the offer, that sounds like more than I need. I have simple html pages with some Quicktime and graphic files, no Java or need for a data base. My focus is on the textual material rather than on data, and I think of the book as a series of views on the subject into which a reader can drill. I plan to simply have a folder on the CD with all the files inside of it, and an alias sitting outside the folder that the user can click on. It will not have a brower and it will rely on the user's own browser to read it. It will be entirely cross platform. It also contains links to the www which will not work, of course, if the read is not connected. But these connections are ancillary and take the reader out of the work itself.

You can look at the book online if you're interested to see how it's structured in this fashion. It's at http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn. Let me know if you have any thoughts about it's presentation wrt the tool that you have developed. Best wishes,

[luisermogt]

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Originally posted by: lincoln_stoller
Thanks for the offer, that sounds like more than I need. I have simple html pages with some Quicktime and graphic files, no Java or need for a data base. My focus is on the textual material rather than on data, and I think of the book as a series of views on the subject into which a reader can drill. I plan to simply have a folder on the CD with all the files inside of it, and an alias sitting outside the folder that the user can click on. It will not have a brower and it will rely on the user's own browser to read it. It will be entirely cross platform. It also contains links to the www which will not work, of course, if the read is not connected. But these connections are ancillary and take the reader out of the work itself.

You can look at the book online if you're interested to see how it's structured in this fashion. It's at http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn. Let me know if you have any thoughts about it's presentation wrt the tool that you have developed. Best wishes,

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[luisermogt]

Hi Lincoln
Nice work. Aparently you just need to copy your site in a cd and include and autorun pointing to a index.htm or the page you want to be open as well as user put de cd into its machine. Not that complicated. I have prepare CD catalogs doing this way.
Aditional coment:
Check all your hyperlinks. When I go to an especific interview, at the botton theres is a link to Learning Project Home which call the URL http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/index.htm which doesn't exist. I think there is a mmising up one level (../) in order to go aout of interviews folder to find the http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/index.htm (home page).


Greetings.

[lincoln_stoller]

Thanks for pointing out the broken link, a result of my switch to document referencing. I fixed it.
What can you tell me about an autorun, do I just Google the topic and find a free .exe file, or is it more complicated than that? Also, is there anything that's cross platform, or something that will auto launch on a Mac?

[luisermogt]

yes. it is really easy. You could find some exe files for autorun, but is easier. Windows has an autoplay cd o dvd when you put in. So if you create a file name "autorun.inf" it will execute. Here is the code of one I use.

[Autorun]
label=BorsiccaPrevia
icon= servcd/favicon.ico
open= launch \home.html
open= servcd/start.bat
shell\Lanzar\command=lanzador.bat
shell\Lanzar=LanzarSitio
shell\Parar\command=servcd/stop.bat
shell\Parar=CerrarServicios
shell=Lanzar

[Autorun.x86]
label=BorsiccaPrevia
icon= servcd/favicon.ico
open= launch \home.html
open= servcd/start.bat
shell\Lanzar\command=lanzador.bat
shell\Lanzar=LanzarSitio
shell\Parar\command=servcd/stop.bat
shell\Parar=CerrarServicios
shell=Lanzar

hope is usefull.

Greetings.

Luis Emilio