In order to make your e-show available for public or private viewing, you must publish it. The Publish to Web wizard walks you through the steps of publishing your e-show to the appropriate location. Which publishing method you choose greatly depends on how your audience is going to view the e-show, the kind of Web server you are running, and whether you have permission to save files to that server. This topic presents five scenarios that are intended to help you choose the publication that is appropriate for you. They are:
The Publish to Web wizard has four steps and each scenario shows you sample responses to each step. To start the Publish to Web wizard, choose Publish to Web from the File menu.
Virtual University professors create e-shows for their lessons. To make their lectures accessible and easily available, they are running an Alive e-Show Server. Jack teaches the class American History 101. He just finished creating an e-show for this week's lecture titled, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and he is ready to publish it to the university's Web site. The address of the Virtual University Web site is http://www.virtualuniveristy.edu.
Since Jack is publishing to an Alive e-Show Server, he can use one-click publishing.
In the Group box, Jack types American History 101 which is his class.
When Jack clicks Finish, Alive e-Show will encode his e-show, copy the files to the specified folder on the Virtual University server and create a link to the e-show in the American History 101 e-show group. The title of the e-show is the same as the file name. The title of Jack's e-show is "Presidency of Lincoln" because Jack typed the title into the Title box of the File Properties dialog box.
Every week, Laura, the manager of a sales department, creates and publishes an e-show for her department's status report. She distributes this e-show to her manager and all of her employees. Since her e-show will be viewed by only a small group of people, she publishes it to her User folder on the department's LAN server called SalesServer.
Here are the steps and the information that Laura would supply in order to publish her e-show to the LAN server using the Publish to Web wizard.
When Laura clicks Finish, Alive e-Show will encode her media files and copy them to the \\SalesServer\User\Laura\Status folder. Now anybody with access to Laura's user folder can view her e-show by typing \\SalesServer\User\Laura\Status\default.htm into the Address bar of their browser.
Derek is the training manager at his company and he creates training e-shows that he shares with the company employees using the corporate Web site. He cannot publish e-shows directly to his corporate Web server, http://www.manufacturers.com, because he does not have permission to post directly to the site. So, whenever he needs to publish an e-show, he copies it to his User folder on the company LAN server called SantaCruz. Then, he informs the Web server administrator that there is a new e-show to be uploaded. While publishing his e-show, he specifies the ultimate destination folder for the e-show so that his Web server administrator simply needs to copy the files into that folder on the SantaCruz Web server.
In the URL to the Web folder showing the e-show, Derek types http://www.manufacturers.com/training/ which is the URL that his employees will use to access his e-show.
When Derek clicks Finish, Alive e-Show will encode his e-show and copy his files to his user folder on the SantaCruz server. Then Derek will contact his Web administrator so that they can post his e-show to the Web site in the http://www.manfuacturers.com/training folder. Any link from a Web page to the e-show must be added by hand but the e-show can be accessed by typing http://www.manufacturers.com/training into the Address bar of the Web browser.
Julie owns a bed and breakfast in Boise called Our Happy Home. Julie hosts her own Web site http://www.ourhappyhome.org on her Windows 95 Personal Web Server. She has created an e-show highlighting the amenities her home offers as well as showing videos of each bedroom. Julie is now ready to publish the e-show to her Web site. Here is the way that Julie would walk through the steps of the Publish to Web wizard.
In the URL to the Web folder showing the e-show, Julie types http://www.ourhappyhome.org/hometour/ which is the URL to their Web site including the new directory.
When Julie clicks Finish, Alive e-Show will encode her e-show and copy her files to the new hometour folder. To access this e-show, she adds a link from her home page to the e-show. The link that she adds is http://www.ourhappyhome.org/hometour/.
Terry is a band promoter. She creates e-shows to promote the bands that she represents. In each e-show, she includes streaming videos and audio, a biography of each band member, performance and album reviews, and promotional pictures of the band. To make these e-shows accessible to club booking agents, Terry runs her own personal Web server http://www.bandpromoter.com on which she is running RealMedia's RealServer. Since, RealMedia's RealServer streams video and audio based on the users connection rate, media that is encoded at 300K, the best quality possible, will not stream over a slower connection. This is Terry's dilemma because she wants to provide the best possible video and audio quality without excluding those booking agents with slower connections. To solve this problem, she publishes each of her e-shows twice -- once for a high speed connection and once for a low speed connection.
Terry has just finished creating an e-show for a new band called The Barking Spiders and she is ready to publish it for a high speed connection to her Web site. Here are the responses to each step of the Publish to Web wizard.
The second time through, Terry publishes her e-show at 28.8K modem. This allows those agents with slower connections to view her e-show.
In the URL to the RealServer showing the e-show, Terry types http://www.bandpromoter.com/barkingspiders/highspeed/ which is the location of the RealServer on her Web site including the new HighSpeed folder.
When Terry clicks Finish, Alive e-Show will encode her e-show and copy her files to the new HighSpeed folder. After publishing her e-show, Terry has to copy the media files from her publication directory into the RealServer folder that is going to play them.
Now, Terry selects Publish to Web from the File menu to publish her e-show at a connection speed that can be accessed via any Internet connection. Here are her responses to each step of the Publish to Web wizard.In the URL to the RealServer showing the e-show, Terry types pnm://www.bandpromoter.com/barkingspiders/lowspeed/ which is the location of the RealServer on her Web site including the new LowSpeed folder.
In order to access this e-show, a booking agent would point their browser a the URL. To afford easy access to her e-shows, Terry creates a link on her Web page that points to each of these e-shows. These links are http://www.bandpromoter.com/BarkingSpiders/HighSpeed and http://www.bandpromoter.com/BarkingSpiders/LowSpeed.