How to use the stand alone!

We have got a couple of mails regarding the our stand alone, and how to install it, so I’ll try to guide you through the file structure, and show what you’re able to do once the publication is in place. Please leave a comment if you have any questions or write to info (at) pagegangster.com and I’ll pick it up from there.

Now, to get started it would properly help if you either had your own stand alone zip package or downloaded our example file. When you unzip the file you’ll end up with a folder called STANDALONE containing something like:

The Autorun.inf are for those of you burning the contents of the folder on a CD or DVD. In case you do this the CD should contain these files when you browse it (not a folder called STANDALONE). If you try to open the index.html file in a browser you should actually be able to see the publication. That means that you can just put the contents of the folder on a webserver and visit the index.html in a browser and you’re good to go.

Customizing the viewer

Now that you got the publication viewable you can make changes to it. You can control quite a lot by editing the index.html file. If you open this in a text editor you should be able to see something like:

These settings allows you to control a bunch of things:

• Setting a background image.
• Turn buttons on and off
• Turn stats on and off
• Disable zoom

So just change all the things you want, save it and revisit the index.html page in your browser. It might be a good idea to keep a original copy of the file if something goes wrong.

Now there are a lot of other things you can do, so I have gathered some links for you:

• How to enable the share functionality on a stand alone (also contains information about how to enable users to open the publication on a specific page)
• How to style your stand alone (A MUST READ)

Stay tuned.. next post – from me anyway – will properly be about getting the most out of Google Analytics.