JP2003271510A - Home page providing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem wherein although a home page of the Internet is effective as a means for transmitting information, the procedure for opening the home page is complicated, so technical knowledge is needed. <P>SOLUTION: A home page providing device is provided with a means for arbitrarily selecting and specifying configuration, background color, images and characters of a screen appearing on the home page and a means for automatically generating data for the home page according to the selection and designation and automatically registering the same in a WWW server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for registering information in a World Wide Web server (hereinafter referred to as WWW server) connected to the Internet to open a home page, and particularly to the opening of a home page. Relates to a homepage providing device automated by a WWW server.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the recent development of the Internet, many homepages have been created and made public. The home page is created, for example, for the purpose of publicizing the information of the company to customers and for the purpose of disclosing information of public institutions. In addition, there are also cases where individuals have set up homepages for the purpose of introducing local activities and hobby activities. If information is posted on a home page, it may be viewed by many people by a personal computer connected to the Internet, so its utility value is high. However, although the number of homepages is increasing, it cannot be said that it has spread enough to small companies and individuals. The reason is that complicated procedures for opening a website and knowledge for registering information are required. Especially for small companies and individuals, it is difficult to register information because it is not possible to secure a professional engineer for the home page in terms of cost, which is an obstacle to opening the home page.

First, with reference to the drawings, an explanation will be given of what is done by the conventional technique until a home page is created and made public. FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a data flow when a home page is opened by the conventional technique, and FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a procedure for opening a home page by the conventional technique. In FIG. 6, reference numeral 601 is a personal computer used by the homepage creator, 604 is a WWW server for delivering the data created by the homepage creator 601 via the Internet 603, 60
Reference numeral 2 denotes a personal computer used by a viewer who receives data distributed from the WWW server via the Internet.
In FIG. 7, reference numeral 701 denotes a step in which the homepage creator makes a contract with the Internet service provider,
Is a step of creating an html file for displaying a homepage screen, 703 is a step of optimizing image data and generating optimized data for browser display,
704 is WWW from homepage creator PC 601
Each step shows a file transfer of data to the server 604. Referring to FIGS. 6 and 7 below,
Further details of the prior art will be described.

As shown in step 701 of FIG. 7, the homepage creator makes a contract with an Internet service provider (hereinafter referred to as ISP) to make a homepage
URL (Uniform Resource Locator), WWW server name,
Account, password, and html (Hyper
Text Markup Language) Receives information indicating files and directories that store image data.

Next, as shown in step 702 of FIG. 7, the home page creator describes the configuration of the home page screen using html. Also, the name of the reference destination of the image data from the WWW browser is described using html. The description in html includes character data and its display position, reference destination address and display position of image data, background color data and display position. This work is performed by the homepage creator using the homepage creation software 6011 shown in FIG. Homepage creator consists of character data, background color data, image data address, and display position of characters and images, and data showing background color.
The html file 6012 is named and temporarily saved.

Next, as shown in step 703 of FIG. 7, the homepage creator displays the image data photographed by the camera or the image data converted into digital data by the image scanner on the WWW browser. Optimization suitable for. This work is performed by the screen editing software 6013 in FIG. 6, and the browser display optimized image data 6014 is generated. Here, the browser display optimized image data refers to data having a definition suitable for display by a WWW browser. The definition suitable for displaying with a WWW browser is, for example, when a monitor screen of a personal computer is displayed with a width of 800 pixels, assuming that images and characters are displayed at a rate of 50% each, the image is The width is 400 pixels. That is, in this case, the number of pixels 400 in the horizontal direction of the image is a definition suitable for displaying with a WWW browser.

Next, as shown in step 704 of FIG. 7, the homepage creator creates the ht created as described above.
The ml file and the browser-optimized image data are transferred to the storage directory of the WWW server given by the ISP by the file transfer software 6015.

[0008]

As described above, there are many and complicated procedures for creating a home page. In addition, new products and model changes are announced every day for website creation software and image editing software, so general people except experts and those who are deeply interested will use it. Is very difficult. From these things, it can be said that it is difficult for ordinary people to create homepages.

It is an object of the present invention to realize a home page providing system that can automate a lot of procedures required for creating a home page by a computer and easily create the home page.

[0010]

The present invention for achieving the above object is as follows. A homepage providing apparatus using a WWW server managed by an ISP, in which data defining a homepage screen configuration and a background color is stored.
Means, second means for storing image data optimized for display on a WWW browser, WWW browser of a personal computer connected via the Internet, and configuration and background color data, character data, image data A third means for displaying a screen for designating, when the information publisher designates each data from the screen, data corresponding to the designated configuration and background color data is acquired from the first means and designated. It comprises fourth means for obtaining data corresponding to the generated image data from the second means and generating an html file together with the character data, and fifth means for storing the generated html file. apparatus.

As a result, 7 of the steps shown in FIG. 7 which are conventionally performed by the person making the home page are performed.
02 and 704 are automatically carried out by the WWW server, and 703 is carried out by the ISP managing the WWW server, so that they are excluded from the work of the person who creates the home page. From the above, the work left to the person making the homepage is
Only handing over to the SP, selecting the background color according to the menu, and inputting characters will make it possible for ordinary people who do not have detailed knowledge of homepages to easily create homepages.

The above object can be achieved by the following means. A homepage providing device by a WWW server managed by an ISP, wherein when image data is transmitted to an ISP by electronic communication means, the sixth means and the sixth means for acquiring the image in the WWW server. 7th means for storing optimized data to be displayed and displayed on a WWW browser, and storing the data defining the home page screen configuration and background color. A ninth means for displaying a screen for designating the configuration and background color data, character data, and image data on the WWW browser of a personal computer connected via the information publisher, when each data is designated from the screen, Data corresponding to the designated structure and background color data is acquired from the eighth means, and data corresponding to the designated image data is acquired by the seventh means. Acquired by, first stores a tenth means for generating an html file along with specified character data, the generated html file 1
A device comprising one means.

As a result, 7 of the steps shown in FIG. 7 which are conventionally performed by the person making the home page are performed.
02, 703, and 704 are automatically performed by the WWW server and are excluded from the work of the homepage creator. As a result, the work left to the person making the home page is to use the image data as an attachment file to the IS.
Only sending to P, selecting the configuration and background color according to the menu, and inputting characters, it becomes possible for an ordinary person who has no knowledge to create a home page to easily create a home page.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described based on examples with reference to the drawings.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG.
And FIG. 9 will be described below. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the configuration of the present invention. Here, 101 is a personal computer equipped with a WWW browser owned by the information publisher (hereinafter,
Information publisher personal computer), 102 is a browser personal computer equipped with a WWW browser for browsing the homepage, and 104 is the information provided by the information publisher is stored as the content of the homepage and is distributed W
WW server, 105 is an e-mail server for servicing e-mail between the information publisher personal computer and an ISP personal computer to be described later, 106 is a personal computer for the ISP to receive e-mail, and 103 is the above component Is the internet that connects The arrows connecting the components 101 to 106 indicate the direction of data flowing between them, which will be described in detail in the following description.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the present invention. Further, FIG. 3 is a layout example of a home page screen. The details of FIG. 1 will be described below with reference to these. The WWW browser menu 1011 shown in FIG.
The html file 1045 registered in the W server is received and displayed by the WWW browser of the information publisher personal computer 101. This data is transmitted from 1045 to the information publisher personal computer 101 via the Internet 103 in the direction of the arrow.

When "Account, password input" is selected on the WWW browser menu 1011, the information publisher uses the account and password given in advance in the contract with the ISP, as indicated by 201 in FIG. input. The entered data is the information publisher PC 10
1 through the Internet 103, data editing means 104
1 is transmitted in the direction of the arrow. As a result, the information publisher is specified on the WWW server, and various data that is subsequently input and data generated based on the data are handled as that of the information publisher. Next, as shown by 202 in FIG. 2, it is confirmed whether or not the image data has been submitted. If not submitted, 203 is provided, and if it is submitted, 205 is provided.
Is carried out. In the following, the image data has not been submitted and will be submitted from 203 onward.

When "Send image data" in the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, step 20 in FIG.
As described in No. 3, the information publisher sends the image posted on the home page to the ISP by the attached file of the e-mail. The attached file is sent from the information publisher personal computer 101 to the e-mail server 105 via the Internet 103 in the direction of the arrow, further transmitted to the ISP personal computer 106 via the Internet, and stored in the attached file 1061.

The image data acquired by the ISP personal computer is optimized by an ISP specialist as shown at 204 in FIG. 2 and is temporarily stored in the image data file 1043 as indicated by an arrow. The optimization performed here will be described with reference to the example of the homepage screen shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 301 indicates that a screen having a width of 800 pixels is displayed, and a hatched portion is displayed in a predetermined background color. An image display unit 302 having a width of 320 pixels is arranged at a position of 10 pixels from the left end of the screen in the screen, and a sentence display unit 303 having a width of 350 pixels is arranged at a position of 10 pixels on the right side of the image display unit 302. It shows that they are arranged at intervals. By the way, when the information photographer sends an image shot with the number of pixels of 1280 horizontally, the definition of this image is reduced and the number of pixels of the width of the image display unit 302 is set to 3
Optimize according to 20.

Next, when "input configuration and background color data number" which is a menu of the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, "input configuration and background color data" described in 205 of FIG. 2 is performed. Here, 8 in FIG.
The configuration and background color designation screen shown by 01 is displayed, and the combination of the configuration of the home page to be created and the background color is designated by a number. For example, the configuration shown in FIG.
To specify one image and a structure in which text is arranged beside it, enter "No1" in the window 8011 of FIG.
When a black color is placed on the background (hatched portion) of the entire screen 301 in FIG. 3 and a gray color is placed on the background portion 303 of the sentence, “black” is displayed in the window 8012 and “grey” is displayed in the window 8013. ". N02 and No3 indicated by 801 in FIG. 8 is a menu for selecting a screen in which a plurality of image display units and a plurality of text display units are arranged horizontally or vertically. The configuration and the background color data number entered here are the data editing means 1 from the information publisher personal computer 101 via the internet 103.
041 is transmitted as indicated by an arrow.

Next, when "Character data input" which is a menu of the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected,
A window for inputting characters is displayed on the screen, and
The “character data input” described in 5 is performed.
The characters input here are displayed on the sentence display unit 303 of the home page shown in FIG. And the character data is
It is transmitted from the information publisher personal computer 101 to the data editing means 1041 via the Internet 103 as indicated by an arrow.

Next, when "input image data number" which is a menu of the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, the image data number designation screen shown at 901 in FIG. 9 is displayed and is displayed at 205 in FIG. “Enter image data number” is performed. In FIG. 9, reference numeral 9011 denotes a window for displaying images registered in the image data file 1043 with numbers such as G1 and G2. That is, 9
From 017 to 9021, the images registered in 1043 are displayed one by one. N01, No2, and No3 correspond to the same numbers in FIG. 8, and 9012 to 9016 are 9011.
In the window to input the numbers such as G1 and G2 attached to each image in, for example, by inputting G1 in 9012,
The image displayed on the image display unit 9017 having the No1 configuration is defined. The input image data number is transmitted from the information publisher personal computer 101 to the data editing means 1041 via the internet 103 as indicated by an arrow.

As described above, when the data input is completed according to the WWW browser menu 1011, the data editing means 1041 of the WWW server is activated, and the operation shown in 206 of FIG. 2 is automatically executed. As the data editing means, for example, CGI (Comm
on Gateway Interface) is typical, but is not limited to CGI as long as it is software that performs the same operation. Here, what is automatically executed will be described below in the order shown by 206 in FIG. When started, the data editing unit 1041 acquires the “configuration and background color data number”, the “character data”, and the “image data number” specified by the information publisher personal computer 101. Next, the data editing unit 1041 acquires definition data describing the screen configuration of the homepage registered in advance from the configuration and background color 1042 based on the “configuration and background color number”, and further, “image data number The optimized image data is acquired from the image data file 1043. Here, the definition data that describes the screen configuration refers to, for example, the coordinates and color information of the components that configure FIG. Finally, the definition data describing the configuration of the home page, the optimized image data, and the character data are described in html to generate an html file 1044.

Next, the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the present invention. 10 of the components of FIG.
1, 102, 103, and 105 are the same as those with the same numbers in FIG.
Reference numerals 042, 1044, and 1045 are the same as those denoted by the same reference numeral 104 in FIG. 1, and detailed description thereof will be omitted. In FIG. 4, 101 is an information publisher personal computer, 102 is a browse personal computer, 404 is a WWW server that stores and distributes information provided by the information publisher as homepage content, 105 is an electronic mail server, and 103 is It is the Internet that connects the above components. Also 101, 102, 103, 10
The arrows connecting the constituents 5 and 404 indicate the direction of the data flowing therebetween, and in the following description, the portions of the arrows related to the constituents 4043 and 4046 of the constituent 404 will be described in detail. The other parts of the arrow are the same as those in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the operation of the present invention. Of the constituents of FIG. 5, 201, 202, 2
Reference numerals 03, 205, and 206 are the same as those denoted by the same reference numerals in FIG. 2, and thus detailed description thereof will be omitted. Further, FIG. 3, FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 are a layout example of the home page screen, a configuration and background color designation screen, and an image data number designation screen, respectively, as already described. A description will be given below with reference to these. WWW browser menu 1 in Figure 4
011 is the html file 10 registered in the WWW server
45 is received and displayed by the browser of the information publisher personal computer 101.

When "Account and password input" is selected on the WWW browser menu 1011, the information publisher uses the account and password given in advance in the contract with the ISP, as indicated by 201 in FIG. input. Next, it is confirmed whether or not the image data has been submitted, as indicated by 202 in FIG.
If there is no need to submit an image, 205 is executed. In the following, description will be given starting from 203 assuming that it is necessary to submit image data.

Next, when "Send image data" in the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, 203 in FIG.
As described in (1), the information publisher sends the image posted on the home page to the ISP by the attached file of the e-mail.

Next, as described at 504 in FIG. 5, the WWW server 404 automatically executes the following.
The image data input means 4046 is the electronic mail server 105.
The image data is acquired from the attached file 1051 that has arrived at. The image is then optimized and saved in the image data optimization file 4043. Here, the optimization of the image is the same as that already described with reference to 204 in FIG. That is, when an image is displayed on the image display unit 301 of the screen shown in FIG. 3, the number of pixels in the width of the image is set to 320.

Next, when "input configuration and background color data number" which is a menu of the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, "input configuration and background color data" described in 205 of FIG. 5 is performed. Here, 8 in FIG.
The screen indicated by 01 is displayed, and the combination of the configuration and the background color is designated by a number from the screen.

Next, when "Character data input" which is a menu of the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, a window for character input is displayed on the screen, and "Character data input" described in 205 of FIG. 5 is displayed. Be implemented.

Next, when "input image data number" which is the menu of the WWW browser menu 1011 is selected, the image data number designation screen shown at 901 in FIG. 9 is displayed, and the image data number designation screen is displayed at 205 in FIG. “Enter image data number” is performed.

As described above, when the data input is completed according to the WWW browser menu 1011, the data editing means 1041 of the WWW server is activated, and the operation shown in 206 of FIG. 5 is automatically executed.

In the above embodiment, the attached file of the electronic mail is used as the image transmitting means, but it goes without saying that it can be realized also by the file transferring means having the same function.

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects.

By the means shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, most of the work conventionally performed by the person making the home page is automated by the WWW server, and the work of optimizing the image data is performed by the internet service provider on behalf of the user. Is done. According to the present invention, the work left for the person who creates the home page is only to pass the image data to the Internet service provider by electronic communication means such as e-mail, and even for a general person who has no knowledge of how to create the home page. Homepage can be created.
This can provide a useful tool for those seeking to publicize information.

By the means shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, much of the work conventionally done by the person making the home page is automated by the WWW server. According to the present invention, the only work left for the person who creates the home page is to send the image data to the Internet service provider by electronic communication means such as e-mail, and even for general people who have no knowledge of how to create the home page Can be created. This can provide a useful tool for small businesses and individuals seeking to publicize information.

As described above, the present invention provides a technique in which one or a plurality of image sizes, character display portions, and the like are set in advance as a homepage configuration, and a menu can be selected. It is a thing. According to the homepage providing device realized by this,
Many of the work items that people who create homepages have done in the past have been automated, and ordinary people who do not have knowledge of how to create homepages can easily have homepages. As a result, it becomes possible to provide a wide range of means for publicizing information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a home page screen configuration example according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional technique.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a conventional technique.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 Information publisher PC 1011 WWW browser menu 102 Viewer PC 1021 WWW browser 103 Internet 104 WWW server 1041 Data editing means 1042 Structure and background color data file 1043 Image data file 1044 html file 1045 html file 105 email server 1051 Attachment 106 ISP personal computer 1061 Attachment 404 WWW server 4043 Image data optimization / file 4046 Image data input means 601 Homepage creator PC 6011 Website creation software 6012 html file 6013 Image editing software 6014 Optimized image data for browser display 6015 File transfer software 602 Viewer PC 6021 WWW browser 603 Internet 604 WWW server 6041 html file 6042 Image data file 8011 to 8019 input window 9012 to 9016 input windows 9017 to 9021 image display window

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A homepage providing device using a WWW server managed by an internet service provider, comprising:
First means for storing one or more sets of data defining the screen configuration and background color of the homepage in the WWW server, one or more image data optimized for display on a WWW browser A second means for storing the data, a screen for designating the configuration and background color data, character data, and image data is displayed on the WWW browser of a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a personal computer) connected via the Internet. Third means, when the information publisher specifies each data from the screen, the data corresponding to the specified configuration and background color data is acquired from the first means, and the data corresponding to the specified image data is acquired. Is obtained from the second means and combined with the specified character data.
A homepage providing device including a fourth means for generating an html file and a fifth means for storing the generated html file. 2. A homepage providing device using a WWW server managed by an internet service provider,
When the image data is transmitted to the Internet service provider by electronic communication means, the image is transferred to the WW.
Sixth means for obtaining the W server, data passed from the sixth means to generate optimized data to be displayed on a WWW browser, and one or more image data thereof are stored. 7th means, 8th means for storing one set or a plurality of sets of data for defining the screen configuration and background color of the homepage, and the WWW browser of the personal computer connected via the Internet. Ninth means for displaying a screen for designating background color data, character data, and image data. When the information publisher designates each data from the screen, the data corresponding to the designated configuration and background color data is A tenth aspect of acquiring data from the eighth means, acquiring data corresponding to the designated image data from the seventh means, and generating an html file together with the designated character data. A homepage providing device configured by means and an eleventh means for storing the generated html file.