Interact with your audience
with audio AND visual media...
Including Web sites, Photos, Videos, Flash presentations and more...

• Cruiser Participants
  
  
• Cruise Panel Operators
  
  
• System Administration
  
  
• WebCruise CastHopper© Stations
  
  

Help...

Cruiser Participants

• HOME - Clicking on this button will return you to the web site from which you joined the cruise.
  
  
• HELP - Clicking on this button brings you to this page.
  
  
• FAQ - Clicking on this button will take you to a page of our most Frequently Asked Questions, and their answers.
  
  
• CONTACT - Contact Us
  
  
• PAUSE Clicking this button will "PAUSE" a live-directed WebCruise (The WebCruise will continue without you, but you can catch up again by pressing RESUME. You use pause to browse around a site to which your browser was directed. (You can do this anyway, but your browser may automatically go to the next directed site unless the PAUSE button has been pressed.
  
  
• RESUME - Resumes a live-directed WebCruise which was paused.
  
  
• WC Bookmark - Due to the operating characteristics of the Web Cruiser, your browser may not (or may) be able to bookmark displayed pages. By clicking on WC Bookmark, the system will save the address and page name of the displayed page in its own bookmarks, which you can later retrieve and move to your own browser's bookmarks by clicking on the Display WC Bookmarks button.
  
  
• Display WC Bookmarks - This will pop up a small window (You MUST have pop-ups enabled for our web site for this to work), that will display any and all WebCruise CastHopper© bookmarks you may have made. Right click on these and use the menu to move these links into your own browser's bookmarks.

Cruise Panel Operators

1. When you first "install" WebCruise CastHopper© (add the lines of code with the WebCruise CastHopper© links) to your web page, immediately click on the Admin Control Panel button. This is the button that gives access to the WebCruise CastHopper's© control panel. The first time you do this is very important! Each time you access the Control Panel, it will require you to put a password into the password field: however, the FIRST time you are actually creating the password that you will continue to use to access the system. Remember the password you have used. Once you have entered the password the system is ready to use.
   
   
2. Designating pages for your viewers - The most basic way to designate a page to be displayed to all of your participating WebCruise CastHoppers© is to enter the URL address of the field into the Display Page field. Do NOT include the http:// part, that is already assumed. Once you have entered this field, click on the SUBMIT button, and within a few seconds, the page will display on your own browser, as well as on the browsers of all your "cruisers".
   
   
3. Alternate Page Designation - On the current page being displayed at any time, if you wish to go to a link on that page, DO NOT just click on the link. Your browser will display the new page, but the browsers of your "cruisers" will not. This way you can "preview" these pages. To send both your browser and your cruisers to the link, right click on the link, choose "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut" (Depending on your browser), then click in the Display Page box of the control panel and paste the address into that box. Then simply press "SUBMIT".
   
   
4. Using Favorites - There is a "choice" box on the Control Panel where you can store web sites to which you go often. (See System Administration for instructions on adding/editing/removing favorites)
   To direct your participants to these pages, simply click on the listing in the box, then click on SUBMIT. Your Panel came pre-loaded with sample "favorites".
   
   
5. Using Tours - Tours consist of one or more pre-designated web sites to which your participants will be directed, in order, with pauses on each site as you determine. Their browsers will traverse each of the sites in the listed tour, and unless you then stipulate something else, start again at the top. Your Panel came pre-loaded with sample tours, but you can create your own tourlists. (See the System Administration section.)
   
   
6. Alert Text - Got something to say to your participating audience? Enter it into the Alert Text box when you designate the next page, and when that page is displayed to each participant, an Alert Box will appear on their screen with the text that you typed.
   
   
7. Cruise ID Code - The preceeding instructions apply to ALL WebCruises. Public cruises are handled by the Cruise ID Code of "Default". However, if you want to have private or alternate cruises, you may do so by entering a code of your own into the Cruise ID Code box. Once you have done this, only those participants that enter that code at the WebCruise CastHopper© WELCOME screen will be able to participate in this cruise. (You need to contact your participants in advance to give them the code to use.)
   If you can keep track of what you are doing, you can actually have both a Public and one or more Private cruises happening simultaneously... GOOD LUCK :-)
   
   

System Administration

• Adding Favorites to your Favorites List - To add a new Favorite, enter the name of the web site into the Name field, and the URL Addrss into the field below it (without the 'http://' part). Then click on the ADD button, and the Favorite should be displayed in the Favorites list.
  
  
• Deleting Favorites from your Favorites List - To delete a Favorite from the list, click on the entry to be deleted in the Favorites List, and click on the "Delete" button below it. The item will be deleted, and the list refreshed.
  
  
• Moving a Favorite Up or Down in the Favorites List - To move a Favorite item up or down in the display list, click on the item in the Favorites List, then click on either the Move UP or Move DN button as appropriate. The item position will be change accordingly, and the list refreshed.
• Creating a New Tour Group - To Add (Create) a new Tour list, enter the name you wish to give the tour in the Add New Tour Group field, and click on the ADD button. The group will be created, and be displayed in the Display Tour box.
• Deleting a Tour Group - To Delete a complete tour group, click on the group name in the Display Tour box, and then click on the Delete button below the box. The tour will be deleted and the Display box refreshed.
  
  
• Adding Tour Sites to a Tour Group - To add a web site to a tour, click on the name of the tour to which you would like to add the site in the Display Tour box. Then enter the URL address of the website into the Add Tour Site box (without the 'http://' part). Then click on the amount of time that the site should be displayed in the participant's browser before moving to the next site on the tour.
  Now click on the ADD button below this box and the site will be added to the tour, and the Tour Sites for the Tour Group will be refreshed to include the added site.
  
  
• Deleting Tour Sites from a Tour Group - To delete a web site from a tour, click on the Tour Group from which the site will be removed, then click on the site in the Tour Sites display box. Click on the Delete button under the Tour Sites box and the site will be removed from the tour and the Tour Sites box will be refreshed.
  
  
• Changing Display Positions of Tour Sites (UP/DOWN) - To change the display position of a web site within a tour, click on the Tour name in the Display Tour box, then on the site to be moved in the Tour Sites box. Then click on the Move UP or Move DN button as appropriate to change the site's position within the tour.

WebCruise CastHopper© Stations