Understanding the page generation process

The various aspects of off-line page generation include:

Template pages

The template pages used in off-line page generation can be any file that can be processed by your Web server, including: HTML, ASP, JSP, XML, and PHP. The template pages can be a dynamic Web site, a portion of a dynamic site, or even a collection of random pages.

HTML tables

A page with one or more HTML tables listing URLs, URL parameters, and output file names.

PageGenerator

A powerful application that processes template pages as directed by the HTML table. It can be invoked from the command line or through a GoLive File menu command.

This simple example illustrates the process. This simple HTML table (pagelist.html) creates four output files. When you invoke the page generator, the generator processes the file in the first column using the parameters in the second and third columns. The resulting file is listed in the fourth column:

Template	Id	Price	Output file
http://myserver/gensite/sales.asp	1	3.99	product1.html
http://myserver/gensite/sales.asp	2	6.75	product2.html
http://myserver/gensite/sales.asp	3	call	product3.html
http://myserver/gensite/index.asp	1	special sale	index.html

The GoLive PageGenerator processes the first three columns of each row and outputs the results in the designated output file. For example, row 1 would be processed as http://myserver/gensite/sales.asp?Id=1&Price=3.99 and stored as a static result in a file called product1.html.