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AltaVista CDROM User Interface Customization
5/10/98

Steps followed to build from this kit:
1. Build the Table of Content files in a separate directory, BuildDirectoryBuildDirectory
    contains the content structure located in the AltaVista Products directory.
2. Place the same content structure, AltaVista Products , in another directory, BuildSearch.
    (I used separate directories to minimize confusion... not sure it is necessary).
3. Copy the initPage.html created in the BuildDirectory into the BuildSearch directory.
    (The CD-ROM toolkit appears to need the initPage.html page to build).
4. Run the CD-ROM Indexer Wizard on the BuildSearch directory.
5. Copy the Table of Contents files:

initPage.html                        navframe.html                   topframe.html
Brochures.html                    introDir.html                     OverviewInformation.html
ProductDescriptions.html    ReferenceInformation.html

from the BuildDirectory into the BuildSearch directory.

6. Copy the missing images from BuildDirectory/newImages directory to the     BuildSearch/avscd/Intel/Images directory  (the top, table of contents, and powered
by graphics are either missing or named differently...).

7. Run search....
 

The html file initPage.html provides the user interface to AltaVista's Search CDROM product. This html file consists of three sub-sections which have been implemented as html frames.  The diagram below illustrates the location and names of these three html frames.

 

Search CD-ROM Files
 
Associated with each of these html frames is a corresponding html file.  Evoking initPage.html results in the topframe being loaded with the topframe.html file, the navframe being loaded with the navframe.html file, and the mainframe being loaded with the introDir.html file.   The producer can customize the Search CDROM product by changing the contents of these files. (The files alphaDir.html, clusterDir.html, completeDir.html, fslrevDir.html, and sysoptsDir.html are included for example).

Banner Graphic (topframe - topframe.html)

The topframe contains the banner graphic.   The topframe.html file loads the Solid_banner.gif graphic file located in the avscd/Intel/Images sub-directory.  The producer can insert their own graphic by replacing this graphic file with their own 468x72 pixel graphic.

Table of Contents (navframe - navframe.html)

The navframe contains the navframe.html table of contents file.  The navframe.html file determines the topic labels displayed in the table of contents frame and makes the connection between these labels and their associated files.  (The files alphaDir.html, clusterDir.html, completeDir.html, fslrevDir.html, and sysoptsDir.html are included for example).  The producer can customize the table of contents by performing the edits to navframe.html illustrated below:

Directory Contents (mainframe - introDir.html)

Search results and targeted documents populate the mainframe viewing area.   You can use the alphaDir.html file as a example content page.  The search block code,  bracketed with “<!--Start_AVSearch--> <!--End_AVSearch-->”, needs to be inserted at the top of each page. This maintains consistency with the format of the search results pages. (The file alphaDir.html is included for example).The producer can customize the directory content pages by performing the edits to alphaDir.html illustrated below: