Engineers at phdcc can help you get your information on CD.

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These pages introduce a service we provide to help get information onto CDs with the minimum of effort.

Put your web site onto CD

Put your paper catalogue on the Web and CD

Check our on-line guide for general information on making your own CDs

Get in touch for a quote. We will put a basic version of your web site on CD for free so you can see how it will look.

Our Approach is keep it simple

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The more complicated a system, the more likely it is to run slowly or break down. We aim to transfer your existing information onto CD in the most presentable and usable form.

You will be able to re-publish the CD as and when you need to without having to learn new technical skills and without having to return to us for help.

• Is there an existing "static" web site that can be transferred to CD with the minimum of alteration? This would normally benefit from a search facility (FindinSite-CD) and an automatic start up program (ShellRun).
• Are any additional files available that would enhance the CD but would be too large to be published on the web site? These would include video, photographs, PDF, AutoCAD etc.
• Is there an existing web site with database information accessed using scripts (.ASP files)? In this case the site could be transferred to CD with the minimum of alterations using Dynamic-CD to enable the scripts to run.
• Is there a mixture of different file types (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, PDF, HTML) in an un-structured form? These can be bound together with the minimum of HTML menu pages and accessed using the FindinSite-CD search engine. If your users will need specialist viewers for your documents - for example autocad drawing files - we can export the documents to another format or provide you with an appropriate viewer.
• Is the information in one long document or in database form? Here a choice has to be made:
  1. We can build you a simple web site using scripts (i.e. .ASP pages) to access the database information. This will allow the database to be transferred to the CD unaltered and run using Dynamic-CD
  2. You can export the document to HTML format, in this form FindinSite-CD can open the document at the correct location and highlight the word or phrase entered in the search engine.
• Do you need a complete new web site? You may have a static site already or have an information page hosted by a third party. Whatever the start point the creation of a CD, if carefully thought out, can be used to provide a web site almost as a by-product.

A few years ago, with the ever increasing growth of the internet, the future of CDs looked questionable. Many pundits predicted an end to all local information storage - everything would be downloaded over phone lines and even the hard disk would be redundant.

However the reality has turned out quite different: disk drives are getting bigger and all new PC's now come with CD and DVD readers and writers. At the same time the cost of producing CDs and DVD's has fallen dramatically. So when are the circumstances right to resort to the old-fashioned expedient of sending information through the post?

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Cost	CDs are much cheaper to produce and distribute than printed documents
Large Data Volume	Large quantities of data are tedious to download from the internet
Environmental Impact	A CD has significantly less environmental impact than even quite a thin catalogue. Paper is often made from renewable resources but the consumption of energy and water as well as effluent production out-weigh the small amount of plastic used in a CD
Not Connected	Where a significant number of users are not able to access information over a network. This could be poor phone lines or a mobile work force (salesperson, auditors etc). There is also a large part of the developing world where land lines are non-existent and low band-width mobiles are the normal means of communication. We have developed systems to enable web sites to be distributed on CD (even in very poor and isolated countries there are plenty of computers with CD players), mobile phones are then used to download small update files as needed.

Here are some examples of how people have used FindinSite-CD and Dynamic-CD.

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• Software Producer
• Builders Merchant
• Weaving Machine Manufacturer
• Wholefood Merchant Cooperative
• Conference Proceedings
• College Course

Contact phdcc with any sales or support question at sales@phdcc.com.

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• Visit the Dynamic-CD forum
• Ask for a Temporary evaluation licence for Dynamic-CD or FindinSite
• Ask for a demonstration CD
• Ask about reseller terms and conditions
• If you like our software, please write a user review at independent web sites

If something's not right or could be improved, let us know. Many of the best ideas come from customer suggestions.

Telephone:	Within UK: 01931 713196 Elsewhere: +44 1931 713196
Address:	PHD Computer Consultants Ltd Lake View Bampton, Penrith Cumbria CA10 2QU United Kingdom
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Email:	sales@phdcc.com
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