Publish to HTML

OmniPage Web offers you three choices for export. You can save a series of Web pages, save and immediately launch in a browser or HTML editor or defer exporting to be completed at a later time.

Saving and launching allows you to preview how your Web page will look in the Web browser or to go straight to your HTML editor of choice for further modification.

You have a great variety of choices for how the HTML will be generated. These options are available from the HTML options button in the main interface or from within the Save As dialog box.

HTML Options

OmniPage Web offers a variety of options for controlling the HTML output. OmniPage Web groups these options into categories including General, Components and Component Styles.

General

Settings in the General section apply to the whole document.

• OmniPage Web can be set to generate plain HTML for the most universal browser support. Choosing this button will disable the component styles tab.
• OmniPage Web allows you to select the HTML title of your document. Choose from the file name, the headline (title of the paper document), local heading (chapter name or section name), or a name that you specify.
• OmniPage Web allows you to divide documents either at certain heading levels, at the original page breaks or not at all. At each file division, OmniPage Web creates a separate HTML page.
• You can also choose to include the original page image as part of their HTML output that can be viewed by clicking on the link. You can choose whether the image should be displayed in color and at what resolution. This is particularly helpful when the original document has marginal text or the location of the words on a page is part of the content. The linear nature of HTML may prevent a visitor from viewing such text in context. In this case, a visitor would want to link through to the original page image.

Components

This section allows you to choose from a variety of options to design the look and formatting of your Web pages.

• OmniPage Web automatically generates a navigational panel at the top and/or bottom of each Web page. You can choose the default navigational control, use your own icons or choose from those provided in the OmniPage Web icon gallery.
• You can elect to add an image map or banner to the top and/or bottom of each Web page.
• You can also elect to add a page signature or copyright clause at the bottom of each HTML page.
• The program allows you to arrange the order in which these components (navigation panel, image map, banner, page signature, and copyright clause) will appear on the final pages.
• OmniPage Web automatically recognizes headers and footers and allows you to elect to keep or remove them.
• OmniPage Web automatically generates a global table of contents (TOC), each entry of which is a hyperlink to the appropriate section of the Web site. You can specify what heading levels you want included in the TOC. Viewers can link directly to the page listed on the TOC by clicking on that section heading. OmniPage Web can also create a local TOC that will appear at the top of each HTML page and list only the headings in that page.
• OmniPage Web allows you to retain graphics as part of your HTML page. Graphics can be included in the flow of the text or represented with links. You can choose the link to be text or a clickable thumbnail.
• OmniPage Web automatically inserts horizontal rulings that will be used as part of the navigational panel and before every section. You can determine the heading level at which rulings will appear. OmniPage Web provides a default ruling for which you can modify style and thickness. You can also specify a graphic to be used as the ruling or chose from the OmniPage Web gallery.

Component Styles

Allows you to control how each component looks.

• You can specify their preference of 14 different style qualities that modify text, border and background. They apply, when appropriate, to the headline, headings, body text, caption, header/footer, tables, copyright notice, page signature, banners, image map, TOC, local TOC, navigation panel, and inline images. In addition, you can determine the margins, the background and link colors (visited and unvisited) for the entire document.
• OmniPage Web supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), part of the DHTML standard. You can elect to use CSS, which provides the broadest range of style options. CSS is a more advanced style-based HTML standard that improves speed of loading and ease of maintenance. When CSS is selected, certain choices in component styles will be enabled that are otherwise grayed out.
• OmniPage Web provides 20 predefined themes, each of which offers its own unique look. These offer you a quick and easy way to produce professional-looking Web pages. OmniPage Web's themes can be chosen as designed or modified and saved. You can also develop your own themes and save them for future use.

Application Integration

After OmniPage Web generates a crosslinked series of Web pages, they can be opened individually or as a group in any HTML editor or site management application, including Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PageMill, MacroMedia Dreamweaver, or NetObjects Fusion.

When saving the document, OmniPage Web provides two file formats: HTML (.htm) and OmniPage Web (.wmt ). Saving to OmniPage Web allows you to easily return to an unfinished document if their work is interrupted.