Tutorials - Active Channels
Many sites now have a picture like this 
where you can click on and add the page to the "Channel Bar" in Internet Explorer 4 and 5. Just as we do on our main page.
If you would like to let people add your site to their "Channel Bar" follow these simple instuctions.
First of all, save this picture, , this is the picture they will click on to add your site.
Now, to do this, there is a file called *.cdf our file is called jc2.cdf but it can be called anything as long as the file extension is .cdf all the editing of this file and saving can be done using Notepad.
Here is what is in our cdf file...
<?XML Version="1.0"?>
<CHANNEL HREF="http://www.jc2k.com">
<ABSTRACT>Java City 2000 is collection of FREE Java Scripts, Java Applets, Midi's and more.</ABSTRACT>
<TITLE>Java City 2000</TITLE>
<LOGO HREF="http://www.jc2k.com/image.gif" STYLE="image" />
<LOGO HREF="http://www.jc2k.com/channellogo.gif" STYLE="image-wide" />
<!-- This channel will be updated once every seven days sometime between 3am and 5am Mountain Time-->
<SCHEDULE TIMEZONE="-0700">
<INTERVALTIME DAY="7" />
<EARLIESTTIME HOUR="3" />
<LATESTTIME HOUR="5" />
</SCHEDULE>
</CHANNEL>
Simply copy that above yellow text and paste it into Notepad. Now save it as filename.cdf and your away. The icon should look like a dish. Now, change the details in the file to suit your page.
There is two pictures specified in the code. These are what you'll see in the channel bar, the first LOGO HREF is the what it will look like when the viewer bar is minimised, and the second is when it's full size, just make some images and specify their names in the code, these are mine so you know the size, just save these...
and
Now let people add your page by using the very top image and link it to the cdf file, so it will look like this...
