Copyright 1997-99, Moon Software. All Rights Reserved.
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT4
Cost: FREEWARE
Developer: Moon Software, Estonia
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e-mail: ahto@moonsoftware.com
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NOTE: This program is not useful if you don't use Internet Explorer web browser.
NOTE: Please uninstall any old 1.x version before installing this verison 2.x. You don't need to uninstall 2.x versions.
Contents
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What is Bookmark Wizard?
Basic Usage
Templates
Command Line Support
History
License Agreement and Warranty
What is Bookmark Wizard?
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Bookmark Wizard is a little FREEWARE program with simple wizard-like interface, that generates HTML page with all/selected links in your Internet Favorites folder. The links in result page are grouped and sorted in ascending order like they are in your favorites folder. You can specify colors for links and backgrounds, title, caption etc for your page, also you can ignore certain folders from being listed. Advanced users are able to edit the entire page template to fully customize it. The resulting web page can be used as links page on your homepage, you can send it to a friend or use it just as startup page for your browser etc. You can also make separate settings file so you can generate a page just by launching this file - that makes it very easy to customize the page only once and then just program generates updated HTML page every time you launch it.
Basic use of Bookmark Wizard is very simple, you only need to start it and will find directions on-screen. Please read entire instructions here so you will get to know how you can get most help from Bookmark Wizard. Have fun!
As side note, the name Bookmark Wizard is not very good name for newer versions since initially the program was IE Favories to Netscape Navigator Bookmarks generator. From this came the name Bookmark Wizard. For now it is just IE Favorites to HTML converter. No direct Netscape support any more. Don't think we hate Netscape - no way, but there are more specialized converters out there for this task, so we just go our way to help you generate a HTML page from Internet Explorer favorites. So we have not changed the name of the program.
Basic usage
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Just run BW and follow all steps to fully customize your result page. After you have completed each step you press the Next button. If there is no more steps, the Next button is disabled and you can press the Finish to generate the HTML page with the options you specified in previous steps. However, you don't need to step through all steps each time you want to update your HTML page. Instead, just run BW and press the Finish button. Since BW remembers your page settings from last use, the generated page will look the same. Please keep in mind that settings are only saved if page is generated. If you close BW without generating HTML page, your settings will not be saved.
You can select group that you want to convert or you can convert all groups that are in your Favorites folder. To exclude certain groups you can put them into ignored folders list. For this you need to to click the Options button, then choose the More command. Add the folders you don't want to list on your HTML page. As you can see, there are more commands in the Options popup menu. You can use the Load Factory Defaults command to load factory settings anytime, so feel free to experiment with your own settings.
Load Options from File/Save Options to File commands are useful if you want to make different customized pages. Then you can save your settings to different disk files and load them when you want. That way you don't need to change your information (page colors, titles, fonts, source folder and HTML filename) each time you want to make a different page.
Templates
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If you know how to write HTML code you can make a template with desired headings, colors, graphics and formatting. Then your template will be used and that way you can customize whole page, not only the items that Bookmark Wizard allows you to change internally. Please see the BMWizard.bwt file in your BW folder. This is actually the default template. All changes made to it will show up in the page BW will generate. You can use several variables in the template, then BW will replace them with actual data. For example you use variable %BW_LINKS_HTML% in the place where you want the actual links HTML code is placed by BW. That way you can have any other information, like more your own text, background images etc on the final page. See the next topic about variables you can use.
WARNING! Be sure to backup the default template before making any modifications! Improper changes in the template may result invalid or blank HTML page.
NOTE! Actually any of these variables are not required. You don't need to use all variables, however, if you omiss the %BW_LINKS_HTML% variable then no links will be placed on your final page ;-)
NOTE! All variables are case sensitive. You must use all UPPER CASE!
Variables you can use in the template:
%BW_LINKS_HTML%
will be replaced by the actual HTML code the BW program creates for you
%BW_LINKS_COUNT%
number of links found
%BW_TITLE%
your page title (chosen in BW)
%BW_BACKCOLOR%
your page background color (chosen in BW)
%BW_TEXT_FONT%
your page font (chosen in BW)
%BW_TEXT_COLOR%
your text color (chosen in BW)
%BW_LINK_COLOR%
your link color (chosen in BW)
%BW_VLINK_COLOR%
your visited link color (chosen in BW)
%BW_DATE%
date the page was generated
%BW_TIME%
time the page was generated
%BW_MOONSOFTWARE_URL%
URL of Moon Software. Please link us on your bookmark page so you support us without paying for this software. Thanks! :)
%BW_VERSION%
BW version like 2.0.5
Please see the default template then you understand how you can use these variables.
Command Line Support
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By using command line support you can quickly tell BW to update your HTML page. You pass settings file on command line and BW generates HTML page using settings in your file. If you have no different setting files (you can save one from Options popup menu, with the Save Options to File command) then you can use the -RUN command line switch to force BW to use your default settings (last used settings).
Example: C:\Bookmark Wizard\BMWizard.exe -RUN
That causes BW to run and minimize, then it generates your page and it closes. You cannot change any options in BW if you have specified command line parameters!
If you want to make a HTML page with different settings, you can pass the settings file on command line. Then you don't need to specify the RUN switch.
NOTE! You must pass your filename between double quotes to make it work with long filenames that contain spaces.
By default on installation BW associates it's setting files (the BWS extension) with itself, so you actually only need to double-click on specific settings file to force BW to run and use it automatically. You can also make shortcut to settings file and double-click on it to generate HTML.
You can change the BWS files by text editor like Notepad. See the default settings file BMWizard.bws - all entries are commented. You can also specify template to use by this settings file, then you need to change the TemplateFile= setting in the BMS file. Currently you cannot change the template from GUI portion of BW.
History
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2.0.1 - July 10, 1999
fixed: The default template contained invalid HTML code so the the page displayed HTML after reloaded or used Back button in some browsers.
2.0.0 - June 01, 1999
added: Command line support.
added: Can load and save settings.
1.6.0 - February 03, 1999
added: Now you can ignore specific folders (like Channels, Software Updates or whatever)
1.5.0 - January 20, 1999
added: template mode
added: some more minor changes, internally changed quite a much
changed: No compatibility with Netscape Navigator bookmark file any more. You can make special template if you want to use BW to convert IE favorites to Navigator bookmarks
changed: www.moonsoftware.ee domain changed to www.moonsoftware.com :-)
1.3.2 - June 14, 1998
fixed: some English grammar in UI. Thanks, Jim ;-)
1.3.1 - March 22, 1998
fixed: little bug where after loading defaults still old filename is used
1.3.0 - March 21, 1998
changed order of bookmarks in final HTML file, now ungrouped items are listed first
