AutoRun

I was applying for an internship at ImageWest at Western Kentucky University and I wanted to copy my entire website onto a cd and turn it in that way.

I wanted it so that when the cd was inserted into a computer, the index.html page opened automatically instead of the viewer having to navigate through my folder that contained my entire website.

I googled, "copying a website to a cd" and eventually came across something that resembled what I wanted. The answer was to put an autorun code onto the cd.

After many failed attempts I discovered this website (let's see if the hyperlink function is working today...by the way I'm using Firefox today and it didn't change my Title into some funky language, yay!):

Boo...it didn't work. So it's obviously not a Opera browser thing, must be a blogger.com thing. Copy and Paste:

http://www.longtion.com/autorunpro/autorunpro.htm

Anywho who, I downloaded the trial version of autorunpro. Autorunpro is fairly simple to use.

Go to file-wizard and the autopro wizard walks you through the process step by step. A feature that I found very neat was that you can create a logo (the program calls it a splash page) and when you insert the cd the image is shown for a brief moment before proceeding onward to open your html page that you specified by the computer's default browser. However, the autorunpro program does not recognize .png so if your image is saved as a .png you gotta change it! Here's mine:



Testing the autorun feature on Vista proved difficult as you had to visit the settings for Vista's autorun and pretty much turn everything off...still not a big fan of Vista, although I do understand the idea behind this is to add security, but it's still a painus in my anus.

Moving forward...now if you're using Dreamweaver to create your html pages, you'll discover the four documents that autorunpro creates when you open your website in dreamweaver again. From that point forward when you copy the entire site to a cd it will contain code for autorun. Sweet, huh?