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Building Web Concordances

If you're not familiar with Web Concordances and their advantages, see What is a Web Concordance?

Making the Web Concordance

To make a Web Concordance, first make your concordance as usual, or load one you made earlier. See Getting Started if you need help.  When your concordance is displayed, just choose Build Web Concordance on the File menu. The program will turn your concordance into a number of related HTML files and then ask you if you want to load the results into your web browser to view straight away.

All the HTML files are placed in a folder of their own. This makes it easier to move or delete them all at once. The folder is named after the original text plus the extension .WebConcordance. It is a sub-folder of the one where your source text (and its concordance) are located.

Refining a Web Concordance

There are two ways to gain further control over the way your Web Concordance is created:
  • Select the elements you want to include. 
  • Use HTML Setup for fine control over the way the Web Concordance files are created. 

    See also HTML Details and Managing large files for HTML

    Publishing a Web Concordance

    Remember that you must be using the registered version of the program before you are allowed to publish anything. 'Publish' here means place any files on a web server, even if only a few internal users can see them. 

    To publish a Web Concordance, copy all the .HTM files created by the program from their own folder to a directory on your web server. The file which starts the Web Concordance is always called framconc.htm and this is the file you should make a link to in order to load the whole Web Concordance into a web browser.

    If you chose to have links made using images rather than JavaScript buttons or plain text (see HTML Setup), you should also copy the .GIF files which you will find in the same folder as the rest of the Web Concordance. These files are the images used for links.  If you don't like the supplied images, you could substitute your own.

    You should review the help file which comes with your Web Concordance (help.htm) and adapt it if necessary. It should accurately reflect what users see when they use your Web Concordance, so you may need to make changes to reflect the choices you made when building the Web Concordance.

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