publish to a CD

[Rich]

Is there a way to publish a site to a CD so it will run
just off of the CD.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Guest]

Yes. When you go to publish your site, simply click on the directory in
which you would like to have it published to (i.e. the CD directory). From
there, the only way for others to view your web site from your CD, is to have
FrontPage installed on their PC.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28aka:_Crash_Gordo]

If you've been working with FP locally then Publishing it up to your server.

You can just open your CD burner, browse to the local disk based web on your machine, and burn the entire folder with the web in it to your CD.

Then, just open the index page from the CD with your browser.

I kinda doubt that you could Publish directly to the CD, you'd probably overrun the buffer and get errors.


| Is there a way to publish a site to a CD so it will run
| just off of the CD.
|
| Thanks,
| Rich

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

Which is why you don't do it that way! If a site uses no FP "bells and
whistles", just publishing it to a CD (or copying the published web to
a CD) will sort of work. If the site uses anything but straight HTML,
just browsing a copy on the CD will give you lots of errors and a very
poor impression of the original site. IMHO, the best approach is to
use a "web reaping" program - I use WebReaper
(http://www.webreaper.net/) - to get a browsable copy of the site and
put that on the CD. This will have the "look and feel" of the original
site, including most "bells and whistles" - only a few very advanced
things (e.g. FP Site Searching) won't work.

Once you have put the site in a subdirectory on the CD, you should
ideally add a shortcut to its home page in the root directory and
possibly also an Autorun.inf file, so that this is displayed
automatically when the CD autoruns. The Autorun.inf file will be a
very short text file looking like:

[autorun]
ICON = mylogo.ico
shellexecute = websubdir\index.htm

The "ICON = ...." line is optional - if it is there, the image in the
icon file that it points to will be displayed instead of the standard
CD icon in Windows Explorer.

The "shellexecute = ...." line will use the default system's browser
to display the file that it points to.

Yes. When you go to publish your site, simply click on the directory in
which you would like to have it published to (i.e. the CD directory). From
there, the only way for others to view your web site from your CD, is to have
FrontPage installed on their PC.

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher