• You have installed the ArcView IMS extension on your computer.
• You have access to a web server on which the ESRIMap web server extension and MapCafe Java applet have been installed. The web server can either be on your computer or on a separate computer accessible over your TCP/IP network.
• You have write access to a directory location on this web server. This is where you will put the web page containing your map so that it can be served to the web. This location can be anywhere in the web server's directory structure.
• The web server is running.
• You have a web browser installed on your computer that supports Java, such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or greater.
• You are able to access successfully web pages on the web server such as the default or home page.
• You are familiar with the basics of ArcView.

Procedure for publishing maps

Start ArcView

1. Start ArcView and open the project containing the view you want to put on the Web.

Load the ArcView IMS extension.

2. Make the project window active.

3. From the file menu, choose Extension.

4. Click the check box next to the Internet Map server extension, if it is not already checked.

5. Press OK.

Tell ArcView the name of the web server you wish to use

6. From the File menu, choose the Choose Web Server option.

7. In the dialog that appears, type in the name of the web server you want to use. Here, we use the web server set up in the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR) of the University of Texas at Austin, which is "ganges".

ArcView stores the name of the web server you chose in your project, along with any advanced setting you specified. Thus, the next time you open this project, you will not have to choose your web server again.

What geographic area do you want people to see when they first access your view on the web?

8. Make the view active that you wish to put on the web.

9. Display the area that you want people to see when they first access your view.

Which themes in your view do you want people to be able to query when they view your map on the web?

10. Make those themes active that you want people to be able to query using Identify  and Find . Themes that are not active at the time you serve your map will not be identifiable or searchable in MapCafe.

You can set up a hot link for the themes you want people to be able to link to, but in my project I did not do that. We can do it later.

Set up the web page that will contain your view

11. From the File menu, choose Web Page Setup.

12. Follow the instructions that appear and step through the dialog. Let's take the view Source Areas by UCL as an example.

You can resize the view by clicking Custom and typing in the Width and Height.

Now I create a ready-to-use web page.

You can set up your own folder. I saved my HTML files under the folder "kevin". When ArcView saves your web page, it also saves the additional HTML files used in your page's frames. Examples of some of these extra files are uclapplet, uclextra, uclinitial, uclload, and ucltitle.

You also can choose the user interface you want your view to have on the web. Here we just use the default interface.

Serving your view

13. From the File menu, choose Serve. If you have not chosen a web server for your project yet, the Choose Web Server dialog will appear. People will be able to access my map example on the Web by typing the URL http://ganges/map/kevin/ucl.html within CRWR or http://129.116.248.121/map/kevin/ucl.html outside of CRWR.

Making changes to your map once it is on the web

Just simply choose stop serving from the File menu. Once you stop serving your view, it will not be available on the web. After making changes, choose Serve again.