Changing the launch page appearance

When you use the Web-to-Host Wizard to create a launch page, the Wizard actually creates a new launch page folder that contains several files.

About this task

You can customize the template so that all launch pages created by the Wizard will have the customized look. For example, you can use this feature to include your company logo on all of the launch pages. The Wizard uses the files located in the \template folder as a template for creating the new pages. Customizations to a site's files in the template folder apply only to that site. To create multiple sites with the same customizations, change the files in each site's template folder.

Procedure

On the web server, navigate to the site and template folder that you want to change. For example:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MySite\template
Make a copy of the launch_x.htm file in case you must go back to the original file.
The launch_x.htm, launch_x-64.htm, and launch_jws.htm files are the templates for all of the web pages that are created by the Web-to-Host Wizard.

Open the launch_x.htm file in a text editor.

The following code places the BlueZone logo on the launch_x.htm page.

<div id="divRocketLogo">
   <a href="http://www.bluezonesoftware.com" target="_blank"><img src="../images/rocket_bluezone_logo.gif" width="238" height="45"
    border="0" alt="Rocket | BlueZone" /></a>
  </div>

Replace www.bluezonesoftware.com with your company's URL.
Replace rocket_bluezone_logo.gif with the name of your graphic file.
Place a copy of your graphic file into the \images folder.
If you know the exact height and width of your graphic in pixels, replace the height and width values with the correct values. If you do not know the exact height and width, delete the width="238" and height="45"; they are not mandatory in HTML.

Note: The size of your logo graphic does not have to match the BlueZone logo exactly. The HTML table stretches to conform to the size of your graphic file. It is good practice, but not mandatory, to specify the height and width of the graphic in the HTML code.
Replace BlueZone Software with your company name.
Save and close the file.
Create a launch folder with one session and start the page.
Check to see that the launch page looks as you expected.
Repeat the task for the launch_x-64.htm and launch_jws.htm pages. You can use copy and paste to do this.