Designing an html template

and:

+ Passing Access reports through an html template and:

+ Automatically generating the custom- designed web look.

A. Mays, Winthrop University, 2005

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to the final webpage with unique hotlinks for each individual title:

How to get from here

to here

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The final journey to this final webpage with unique hotlinks for each individual title and design elements:

Next: the web template and Access Report html export…

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Slide 4 of 14What the html template will affect:

Webpage title

Report name with new arrivals’ timeframePage navigation

Headers brought over from the Access Report

Background image / colors / link rollover, and other style aspects

Hit counter, date/time stamp

The title “New monographs added fy2004-2005: July 1, 2004 – February 28, 2005” automatically shows in the webpage’s title bar. No need to manually name the page.

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Click “yes” to “replace” if updating the web page.

This box won’t appear if this is the Access report’s first web output.

After choosing web output, the option to “Select a HTML Template” automatically appears.

+ Check “select”+ Click “Browse”.

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1) Choose the desired web template, then click OK

2) The chosen web template automatically comes into the Access report’s output box. Click “OK”.

3) This output status box comes next. The Access report is being exported as an html page.

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Remember the html pass-through template? It’s how the Access Reports passed into this webpage.

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The end product: how the site looks online

Done!

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Thank you for joining me in this session