Converting Static Web Pages to - Web Template Pages-DRAFT-

-Draft-

In order to have a successful conversion of "static" Web pages to be used with Coravue several global edits need to be made to the HTML files. In addition, be sure to watch out for techniques that are commonly used with static pages that do not work with most database oriented Web sites.

<H2>Global Edits</H2>
Copy the existing directories and files onto your computer within a directory called pages. This will represent the final structure you will copy back to the Web server.
Edit each HREF to include the text '#gt# in front of each directory/filename.
<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=732>
<TR><TD WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP">
Static</TD>
<TD WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP">
Coravue </TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREF="story-list.html"></TD>
<TD WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREF="gt#/story-list.html"></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREV="news/story22.html></TD>
<TD WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREV="/cgi-bin/guesttrack7e651f0b5f37&news/story22.html></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

After making the global edits, look for occurrences where non-hypertext links were edited and restore them to their proper format. Examples of these are mailto: and ftp://.
<H2>Home Page</H2>
The starting "home page" needs to have a "guest ID" instead of the standard Coravue placeholder. Make an additional copy of the "home page" (index.html) and place it in your development directory at the same level as the pages directory. Make a global edit to this file similar to the global edit to insert 'user_id#', except use ?ffffffffffff.
<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=732>
<TR><TD WIDTH="32%" VALIGN="TOP">
 Static</TD>
<TD WIDTH="68%" VALIGN="TOP">
Coravue </TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="32%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREF="story-list.html"></TD>
<TD WIDTH="68%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/guesttrack?ffffffffffff&story-list.html"></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="32%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREV="news/story22.html></TD>
<TD WIDTH="68%" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREV="/cgi-bin/guesttrack?ffffffffffff&news/story22.html></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

<H2>Images</H2>
Most Web developers today place their graphic images in directories named images. These directories are either at the top level of their Web site, or within each of the sub-directories with their Web pages. In most GuestTrack installations, you will need to insert a directory path in each IMG SRC tag in front of the reference to the images directory.
If there is one images directory at the "top" (i.e., root) level of the Web site, then each occurrence of images would need to be changed to /images.
If there is an images directory in each of the Web page directories, then a path from the root must be inserted.
<TABLE BORDER CELLSPACING=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=590>
<TR><TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP">
Static</TD>
<TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP">
GuestTrack</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP">
Images (parallel to 'pages')</TD>
<TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP">
/images</TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP">
news/images (to be inside 'pages')</TD>
<TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="TOP">
/pages/news/images</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

<H2>Scripts</H2>
Custom scripts that perform special functions need to be reviewed by the GuestTrack team to see how to modify or replace them with scripts that perform the same function.