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Hello,
At work I currently produce a CD or DVD as a deliverable for the client. It is very basic and when the user accesses it all they currently see is the following:
Three standard Windows yellow file folders/icons that you see in any Windows based application. One contains a series of PDFs which are simply copies of scanned documents, the other two contain "Indexes", 1 in each folder. The index is currently a HTML based (it was previously MS Excel) list of descriptions of the PDF documents and hyperlinks to each document. Essentially, all the user does is locate a category they want to review, i.e. Environmental Remediation, and then they click on any of the hyperlinks to open the document(s) in that category. Very simple...
My objective: Instead of the user seeing the three lame and ugly standard Windows yellow file folders, I'd like to have a cool interactive menu screen that they can use to access the Indexes, pretty much like the Switchboard idea in MS Access.
***Also, I'd like this interactive menu screen to be the very first object they see when they open the cd or dvd*** - more or less an automatic process so they don't have to click anything until the menu screen appears.
It would be awesome to be able to 'hide' the PDFs and Indexes so that the user has to use the interactive menu screen. Essentially, I'd just to make it a more visually appealing product but still functional.
Do you have any ideas on applications that will allow me to build this concept and turn it into reality? Would any of the MS Office applications allow something like this, i.e. MS Word? I work in a govt. office so different types of software that they use is somewhat limited.
Thank you - please advise if this post should be placed in another category.
jon
At work I currently produce a CD or DVD as a deliverable for the client. It is very basic and when the user accesses it all they currently see is the following:
Three standard Windows yellow file folders/icons that you see in any Windows based application. One contains a series of PDFs which are simply copies of scanned documents, the other two contain "Indexes", 1 in each folder. The index is currently a HTML based (it was previously MS Excel) list of descriptions of the PDF documents and hyperlinks to each document. Essentially, all the user does is locate a category they want to review, i.e. Environmental Remediation, and then they click on any of the hyperlinks to open the document(s) in that category. Very simple...
My objective: Instead of the user seeing the three lame and ugly standard Windows yellow file folders, I'd like to have a cool interactive menu screen that they can use to access the Indexes, pretty much like the Switchboard idea in MS Access.
***Also, I'd like this interactive menu screen to be the very first object they see when they open the cd or dvd*** - more or less an automatic process so they don't have to click anything until the menu screen appears.
It would be awesome to be able to 'hide' the PDFs and Indexes so that the user has to use the interactive menu screen. Essentially, I'd just to make it a more visually appealing product but still functional.
Do you have any ideas on applications that will allow me to build this concept and turn it into reality? Would any of the MS Office applications allow something like this, i.e. MS Word? I work in a govt. office so different types of software that they use is somewhat limited.
Thank you - please advise if this post should be placed in another category.
jon
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I located a site that I believe has the software to which you refer:
