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1.1 Introduction Spotlight is a Java applet - a pre-compiled component that can be easily added to your web pages. This user guide has been designed to discuss the concepts of Spotlight and then provides a step-by-step guide to adding the Spotlight applet to your web pages and configuring it. 1.2 Applet Basics To include an Spotlight applet in your web page, you'll need to copy the applet into the same folder as your web page. The applet is called 'WibbleSpotlight.class'. You'll then need to use a text editor (eg Notepad) or FrontPage to add some specific applet lines to your web page. This is quite a simple task and we'll take you through this step-by-step. Throughout this guide, we'll show the applet tags within little Notepad windows and we'll sometimes highlight relevant portions in bold text to draw your attention to it. These tags can be quite easily copied and pasted to save time typing in parameter tags:
What does this do? Well, these tags simply tell the browser to include the Spotlight applet on your page. Notice too that you also have to specify the height and width (in pixels) of the applet. The size values shown in the code above are just examples - you will need to alter these values to match the dimensions of the image you instruct Spotlight to use. 1.3 Applet Configuration These tags on their own won't do anything. You need to add some specific <param> tags within the <applet></applet> tags. These <param> tags are used to give Spotlight information on how to customize the banner or image on your page. The <param> tags reference the name of each parameter and the value associated with it. Here is the full list of parameters you can use to configure Spotlight. Don't worry if this looks confusing at the moment - we're going to talk you through each of the parameters and what they do:
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