Five Great Reasons to Use WebCD to create a Hybrid Web/CD-ROM

1. Easy. Everything you need to package your Web site and let end-users install, browse and search your WebCD is included. Do it yourself or let us handle all CD-ROM replication, sleeve printing and distribution for you!
2. Integrated. Use familiar Netscape and Microsoft browsers to navigate your WebCD. Live-Links TM let users move easily from the WebCD to your Web site to place orders or retrieve the latest updates.
3. Leverage.Reach more users with your existing Web content. Plus, you can now add large files or multimedia content that otherwise cause frustrating Internet delays. Or include sensitive information you are unwilling to place on your public Web site.
4. Internet optional. WebCD is inexpensive, convenient and portable. Prospects, customers and sales teams have instant access to catalogs, brochures, white papers, presentations and other information needed to influence decisions, answer questions and solve problems.
5. Huge cost savings. Best of all, WebCD lets you distribute critical business information at a fraction of the cost of printing, shipping, stockpiling and retrieving paper documents.

Description

WebCD's two software components work together to make Web to CD publishing effortless. The WebCD Viewer allows users to move seamlessly between the Web and CD-ROM and includes browser, searching, graphical bookmarks and professional installation. The WebCD Packager retrieves and organizes content, then builds a master image that is ready for replication.

WebCD Viewer

The WebCD Viewer ensures everyone can use your content by providing an open browsing environment.

• Works within Netscape or Microsoft browsers to provide a familiar graphical interface. Installs Microsoft® Internet Explorer if no browser is present.
• Ensures that all your content is viewable by making it easy to bundle popular media players.
• Graphical bookmarks and a full-text search engine make it a snap to locate the right information.
• Live-Links TM let users jump between WebCD and your live Web site to immediately respond to your call-to-action.
• Professional installation system can be customized for your company to make a strong first impression.
• Optional installation to hard disk for use without a CD-ROM drive.
• Control of expiration dates keeps your WebCD up-to-date and informative.

The WebCD Viewer ensures everyone can use your content by providing an open browsing environment.

WebCD Packager

The WebCD Packager utilizes advanced Web packaging technology to retrieve specific Web content and all its hypertext links, integrate non-HTML files, organize the content for viewing and build a master image that is ready for replication.

• Step by step Wizards and an intuitive Windows interface guide you through the publishing process.
• Groundbreaking retrieval technology relocates Web content to CD-ROM. Nasty problems like link editing, server side image maps, redirections, CGI output, directory URLs and aliases are taken care of for you.
• Retrieves both Web and non-HTML content.
• Graphical inventory of your Web site simplifies content selection and identifies broken links.
• Drag and drop your "must see" pages to the WebCD Bookmarks window, highlighting specific content, forms or a different WWW site.
• Update your content with a single mouse click, making periodic WebCD publications fast and easy.
• CD-ROM mastering is built-in for your convenience.