Customization Instructions
eStudio can be customized to work with images you supply. eStudio content can then be burned on a CD ROM and distributed to friends, family, clients. The applet will run from the CD, requiring no installation. Alternatively the contents can be dragged to the hard drive and run off of the hard disk (which still doesn't require an official installation). An eStudio application can be used kiosk style for demonstration purposes, to display artwok, instructions, etc. Customization requires a basic understanding of HTML. If you have no experience with HTML, HTMLIB from Stephen Le Hunte is a good reference site. Since a working version of eStudio is provided, all that is needed is to modify the existing pages to suit your needs. To customize:
- Decide how many different collections of images will be included in an eStudio portfolio.
- Each subject will require a separate directory, an HTML file, and a captions file.
- Create a directory to hold the eStudio portfolio.
- Into this base directory, copy start.html, and create an additional directory called eStudio.
- Modify the table in start.html, replacing my city names with your subjects. Add rows as necessary. Modify the name and email address with your information.
- For each subject, create a subdirectory in the eStudio directory. Also create an HTML file for each subject, using file names in your start.html table. The layout of directories and files is critical. Follow the example provided.
- Into each subject subdirectory place your images and captions file. You do not need captions, but you do need the captions file in each subject subdirectory, with at least one entry. Use the example in the Nashua directory for a subject with no captions. The number of images that can be processed is limitted by RAM. Images should be 640 X 427 pixels.
- Modify your captions file, which is a tab delimited 2 column file. First column is image name (with extension), second column is the caption. Only .jpg, .gif, and .png images can be used. Be sure that the subject html file captions parameter correctly references the captions file.
- Copy the border.jpg, estudio.gif, and stucco.jpg image files into the estudio directory. Alternatively you may want to use your own borders and backgrounds.
- Click on start.html and admire your creation!
- To remove eStudio, simply delete all the directories and files created. eStudio does not officially "install", i.e. there is no modification to the registry.
- To create a distributable CD, first work through the above process on your hard drive, then drag the eStudio directory, along with start.html to a CD. Ideally when a client pops the CD into their drive, at the top level directory all they see is start.html and the estudio directory.