Part 3: Authoring Content
Now that the developer environment is in place, the next step is to start
creating content. You typically start with static web content which consists
of HTML documents along with their included graphical elements (GIF and
JPG files). The HTML documents are created with an HTML editor. The GIF
and JPG files are created with a graphics drawing package like CorelDraw,
or are imported from a scanner or digital camera. Graphics files can also
be lifted from other internet sites. Once graphics files are obtained,
simply store them in the same directories as your HTML files on your workstation
and the PicLan-IP web server will access them along with the rest of your
web content.
Yes, The MV System Can Use Grahpics Files
Thats right, the PicLan-IP web server can directly use standard GIF, JPEG, and
other binary files without difficulty. The truth is that the MultiValue system
is probably not able to internally manipulate and create these files, but once
they are made available, putting them on the web is not a problem. If these files
are stored in a host file system directory, PicLan-IP will perform all conversions
necessary to deal with the binary data within the MultiValue environment automatically.
These image files may also be stored directly in the MultiValue file system as
MultiValue items. In this case, the items are stored as single-attribute hexadecimal
strings.
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