GST DigiCardCD Builder Tutorial

GST DigiCardCD Builder  Tutorial

With a flash resume you will stand out from others and get noticed quickly. Using this tool, you will be able to impress your prospective employer with a cutting edge high tech animated flash resume. 

With the GST DigiCardCD Builder , you will be able to create great looking Flash animated presentations to make your resume or business card come to life. You can show a different image  and play any mp3 file that you choose with each topic change.

As you can see in the picture above there are three distinct areas that you have total flexibility to control. 

1. Text Detail Area - Each page can display an unlimited amount of text information. 

2. Image Area - Each page can display a unique image.

3. Menu Area - You control what the menu area shows

Three different color themes

Here is a step-by-step look

Get your graphics and mp3 files ready

The maximum number of pictures you will need is five, one for the home section and one for each of four pages. The pictures must be of type JPG and the best size is 380 by 280 pixels. If they are larger they will be cropped at the right side and bottom.

Important Note About JPEGs

Flash will not load "progressive" JPEGs correctly. If you have the problem where a JPEG won't display, it is probably a "progressive", the JPEG equivalent to the interlaced GIF. The way to fix this is to load the troublesome JPEG into a graphic editor like Paint Shop Pro and do a SaveAs to a BMP format. Then do a SaveAs of the BMP version to JPEG. This will change it back to a normal JPEG.

If you can't get it to work, send it to support@autorun-autoplay-tools.com and we will fix it up for you and send it back.

Main Panel

Here is where you start, the main panel. There are three basic steps.

1. Design Tutor

2. Build the files for the CD

3. Run to see what it looks like

Let's start by clicking the Design Tutor red button.

Introduction

This introduction panel introduces you to the main concepts involved in designing your DigiCardCD. You should read this panel over to learn the basics.

Select The Player Style

This panel allows you to select the theme for your player. Select each one and look at the preview panel. Now select the one that you like best.

Select JPG graphic and MP3 sound files.

This panel allows you to select and copy all the graphics and audio files that you intend to use on the DigiCardCD into a work area. You will need these in the work area in the following steps.

Set up General Information

Here is where you set up important information. This includes the opening text, your web page and email links.

Set up the Menu Area

This is where you set up the menu area. This is very important to provide navigation to the key areas of your DigiCardCD.

You also have the ability to launch one program from the launch slot. With this you can launch just about anything you like to complement your CD. This includes HTML, Text files, Acrobat Reader and PowerPoint and more. Click on the Launch Help button for detailed information on how to set it up.

Setup Pages

This is where you insert the main text content for each page. Just select the page from the drop-down and then paste in or type the heading and page content. Next go to the bottom and select the Image and sound for each page. If you want just one sound for the whole presentation, make it a long one and select it for the Table of Contents page.

Finish

If you entered all the information on the previous dialogs, you are finished. Just click finish to go back to the main panel and click build (yellow button)

Build Output for the CD

Now enter the build path that you want to use or use the default and click OK

Run your DigiCardCD

On the main panel click the run button (green button) to see what you DigiCardCd looks like. 

This run button will test out everything except the launch capability. The reason for this is the program that you wish to run on the CD would be in the root of the CD. If you try to launch here, running on the C: drive it will also look for it in the root (of the C: drive) and it probably is not there. The best way to test the launch is to burn a CD.

Click here to see what it will look like when you click run

Once you are happy with the look you can go ahead and burn the CD. If something doesn't look right. Go back to the Tutor step, fix it, build and run until you get it right.

More about the build folder

Your build folder should look like the one shown above. It should contain three program files and an fscommand folder.

1. resbccd.exe - The flash player

2. autorun.inf - The autorun starter file

3. res.prm - The file containing your customized text and information.

4. fscommand - A folder with important files to make thing work.

The build folder should also contain your graphic files (must be JPG) and audio files (must be MP3). 

Burning the CD

Now, using your CD Creation program, copy all the files to the CD. Shown above is how it would look if you have EasyCDCreator 5. If you have another CD creator program, it should look similar with a source directory and a CD directory. Note that we copy all the files and fscommand folder inside the cdbuildarea folder to the root directory of the CD. Do not copy the cdbuildarea folder, this will not work. All the files inside the cdbuildarea folder must be copied (Select All then Copy) to the CD.

Saving your design work

Before leaving the DigiCardCD Builder you should save your design. The program will prompt you to save when you exit the program or you can select SaveAs from the file menu. Don't save it in the build folder. The design and build information are totally different and need to be kept separate. Create a new folder and type in a name in file name. The program will add the "ini" extension to it. By saving your design work, you can return and do a File/Open and load it into the DigiCardCD for modifications.

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Last modified: May 26, 2005