The Designer interface allows publishers to fully configure the user environment. The publisher can modify all the graphical elements of the application, including the desktop icon, button icons, wallpaper, navigation bars and splash screens. In that way, the publisher can control the overall look and feel of the publication, ensuring that the application is consistent with the corporate intranet or client application interface standards. Insight also provides a Distribution Wizard that allows publishers to distribute the publication to CDs, LANs or the Web. For the Web, the Distribution Wizard creates an executable that contains all the necessary components to install and configure the Web publication.
Insight provides two different user environments, depending on the distribution mechanism.
With Web distribution, the user environment is a thin-client application that runs in a Web browser. Both environments are fully customizable and robust, and include a built-in viewer. Users can sort the results of a search, print selected documents, or open multiple documents. Overall, we found the CD-ROM and LAN client interfaces to be user friendly and intuitive. We were able to quickly navigate through the publications using the table of contents and bookmarks.