Steps in preparing a text for the reader:

1. Preparing the gloss.

2. Preparing the text.

3. Inserting the gloss and text into the reader.

4. Inserting the Shockwave document into a HTML document.

To my great surprise, Microsoft Frontpage does not allow one to insert a Shockwave document into a webpage quick and easy, just like any other object. I found that I had to go to the HTML view and insert the code manually. (Maybe this has been changed, but I am using FP 2002, and it seems to be the case here.) It's not difficult to do it manually. It's just weird that it isn't automatic. Whatever...

(I can hear the HTML purists now: "See? Sometimes it really is useful to understand HTML, and not depend completely on a web editor to do everything.")

Below is what you have to insert. Copy and paste it. (I am assuming that your Shockwave document will be in the same directory (i.e., folder) as the webpage it is going to be a part of.):

<p align="left"><OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000"
CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
WIDTH="512"
HEIGHT="342"
NAME="cat085"><PARAM NAME="SRC" VALUE="cat085.dcr"><embed SRC="cat085.dcr" HEIGHT="342" WIDTH="512" NAME="cat085"></OBJECT>&nbsp;</p>

I highlighted in red the things you are definitely going to have to change. The name of the Shockwave movie for my Catullus 85 Shockwave poem is cat085.dcr. If your Shockwave movie is called smeagol.drc, obviously, you will put NAME="smeagol" and VALUE="smeagol.drc", etc.

If you change the size of the Director movie that you downloaded from this site, you will have to change those values as well...

Maybe I have forgotten something, but I think that is it. Now all you have to do is upload and let 'er rip!

Have fun! And let me know how things are going!

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last updated November 30, 2003
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