Copy my website to a CD?

Can anyone help me learn how to save my website on a CD so it can be read by
both Mac and PC? My site is my portfolio and I'd like to include in with some
marketing materials on a CD. I've tried saving the CD as a separate site but
the PC side can't seem to read it. I want to put the index.html page on top,
with contents in subfolders...

Workiing locally, Macs start with file:///Volume/etc..., PCs start with
file://HI/Subfolder/etc... Can I just use something universally acceptable to
all browsers?

www.davefrank.net

Any ideas?
Dave Frank

general issues-

use Document Relative paths for everything.

avoid using characters that can cause problems in file/folder names.
Punctuation, blank spaces, and so on.
Most conservative- use only a-->z and 0-->9 and the underscore.

on having it work on both mac and pc.
Need to burn a disc with a directory that works on both platforms, AND that
maintains the filenames as you've made them.

What platform are you on?
What burning software, and what options does it have?
Do you want the disc to work in os9 Classic machines? Or is osX enough?

Can anyone help me learn how to save my website on a CD so it can be read by
both Mac and PC? My site is my portfolio and I'd like to include in with some
marketing materials on a CD. I've tried saving the CD as a separate site but
the PC side can't seem to read it. I want to put the index.html page on top,
with contents in subfolders...

Workiing locally, Macs start with file:///Volume/etc..., PCs start with
file://HI/Subfolder/etc... Can I just use something universally acceptable to
all browsers?

www.davefrank.net

Any ideas?
Dave Frank

Thank you for your reply Alan!

I'm on Mac OSX 10.3.4 but I want this disk to be universally legible on Mac
and PC with their various browsers...
My burning software is what comes standard with Apple's Macintosh OSX
SuperDrive.

I thought I had it solved with local file:// addresses, but then brought a
test disk to Kinkos to try it on a PC and I get hung up on the "H" drive which
doesn't seem to like file:// format I used and keeps looking for an "H" drive
path... Works great on a Mac!

I've tried to follow your advice regarding concervative characters... Although
I have used capitals, ie: "DavidFrankPortfolio". Could that be the problem?

Thanks,
David

I thought I had it solved with local file:// addresses, but then brought a
test disk to Kinkos to try it on a PC and I get hung up on the "H" drive which
doesn't seem to like file:// format I used and keeps looking for an "H" drive
path... Works great on a Mac!

Don't use absolute paths file:///
Use Document Relative paths.

you may be able to fix it with this extension, or may FIRST need to do a
Find and Replace to change the absolute Hard Drive paths to Site Root
relative, then use the Relativity Exptension to change them to Document
Relative.

Relativity Extension.
http://e7x.com/dw/ Relativity ext.
or here
http://www.microwaved.plus.com/dw/

On burning- I don't currently have an X machine with the factory burner. I
think they create ISO 9660 style by default, which is fine (i think-- Not
sure if Joliet Long Filenames are supported or not. If there's a problem
this is the most likely one to happen)

Suggest you burn a potential master disc, then check in some windows
machines.

If there are problems- Open "my computer" on the windows machine, and take a
look at the Directory listing of the CD you've made.
It's possible the file case has changed, or that the file and folder names
are now all DOS 8.3 format. There's ways around this if it happens.

If your master is fine- then burn it.

If you have a problem with the filenames being DOS, the Adaptec/Roxio "Toast
Deluxe" will burn windows and mac format on the same disk, and will set it
up so they will auto-start if wanted. But- only the Deluxe version, not the
free bundled version that comes with burners. There's probably other 3rd
party burning software also.

Couldn't you just convert your site/portfolio into a '.exe' file?

dovv <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Can anyone help me learn how to save my website on a CD so it can be read
by
both Mac and PC? My site is my portfolio and I'd like to include in with
some
marketing materials on a CD. I've tried saving the CD as a separate site
but
the PC side can't seem to read it. I want to put the index.html page on
top,
with contents in subfolders...

Workiing locally, Macs start with file:///Volume/etc..., PCs start with
file://HI/Subfolder/etc... Can I just use something universally acceptable
to
all browsers?

www.davefrank.net

Any ideas?
Dave Frank

And what would that do for a Mac? 8)

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"David Hier" <david (AT) artsablaze (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Couldn't you just convert your site/portfolio into a '.exe' file?

dovv <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:ccf33a$fi9$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Can anyone help me learn how to save my website on a CD so it can be
read
by
both Mac and PC? My site is my portfolio and I'd like to include in with
some
marketing materials on a CD. I've tried saving the CD as a separate site
but
the PC side can't seem to read it. I want to put the index.html page on
top,
with contents in subfolders...

Workiing locally, Macs start with file:///Volume/etc..., PCs start with
file://HI/Subfolder/etc... Can I just use something universally
acceptable
to
all browsers?

www.davefrank.net

Any ideas?
Dave Frank

Couldn't you just convert your site/portfolio into a '.exe' file?

He wants a CD that will work on Windows and Mac.
A Windows .exe executable doesn't fit that bill.