Template Customization Instructions Page 1
Download the free_template.zip (PC) or free_template.sit (Mac) file to a new folder on your computer hard drive.
PC files- Use WinZip to uncompress the files and extract to your hard drive.
Mac files - Use Stuffit Expander to uncompress the files and extract to your hard drive.
You should have the following files and folders in a new folder on your hard drive.
- Original Files Folder
- autorun.inf - used to automatically play CD on PCs
- PC_Play.exe - PC template presentation file
- Mac_Play.hqx - (PC only) Compressed Mac template presentation file
- Mac_Play - (Mac only) Mac template presentation file
- assets folder
- files folder - template_instructions.pdf & conent.xml
- images folder - logo and page images
- slides folder- presentation slides for Main Presentation page
- sound folder - soundtrack.mp3
- swf folder - SWF page file
- New Project 1 Folder
- template_instructions.pdf
The following items can be changed in the Alpha release
- Presentation Title
- Logo Image
- Menu Button Labels
- Number of Buttons (up to 5)
- Page Titles
- Page Text
- Page Images
- Presentation Slides
- PDF Files
- E-mail and Website Links
- Page Files (Pages are imported SWF files, so if you have the ability to create and export SWF files, you can create your own custom page files).
Getting Started
These instructions assume that you understand how to operate your computer well enough to create new folders and rename files and folders. Furthermore, you will need an image editing program such as Photoshop™ to create, resize, and export new images, and an XML editing program or simple text editor such as Notepad (PC) or SimpleText (Mac) to edit the content.xml file which holds all the text for your presentation as well as main title and button labels . The content.xml file also contains the file names for images and page files as well as their relative path from the main presentation file.
Open the folder where you saved the extracted files and folders. Inside this folder you will see two folders named Original Files and New Project 1.
Copy all the template files and folders from the Original Files folder into the New Project 1 folder. You can rename this folder as appropriate for your project. We recommend that you keep the original template files inside the Original Files folder and copy them into a new project folder every time you make a new version of the presentation.