Directories Tab

The Directories tab allows you to include additional directories that your HTML has references to. By default WebCompiler includes data from the directory the "Home Page" is in (the page that is showing when you compile) and subdirectories of it.

In some cases Web sites are designed with the HTML in one directory and images in a sibling directory or similar arrangements. This is often done to help reuse of data across multiple Web sites.

For example, a Web site may have a directory structure -

ROOT

TEXT

contains HTML that references JPG images in the IMAGES directory, including the "Home" page called index.html

IMAGES

the JPG images referred to by HTML in the TEXT directory.

Using the Add button you can include additional directories that wouldn't normally be included.

In this case you would open the ROOT\ TEXT\index.html page (the "home" page) and would specify the ROOT\IMAGES directory as an additional directory to be included. When compiled the presentation would then include the JPG images. If you failed to add the IMAGES directory as an additional directory in this way you would get broken image links (the little red cross in the corner) when you ran the compiled presentation.