TRINITY PROJECTS

Templates

Microsoft Project exports data to your web page as three basic tables.  To improve th appearance of these tables a template can be employed during the export precess.  The template determines the layout and colour scheme of your web page.

Microsoft Templates

Back in 1997 the Project Development Team constructed 28 Project web page templates (actually they created four layouts and twelve colour schemes, mixed them up to produce the 28 available).  And that was it. Development over, three new versions of Project since then, but still the same "old" 28 templates.

These templates can be used, but they are looking very dated now and they will not impress anyone who has got use to the internet in the 21 Century.

Trinity Projects Templates

Disappointed by Microsoft’s failure to deliver new templates, and armed with a knowledge of web page construction, I set about the task of designing a new collection of dynamic templates with up to date styling.

Microsoft didn't give me much to play with and I was restricted to a limit of one file (see side bar).  However, I came up with three layouts and a number of colour schemes to produce an initial crop of twelve templates.

The application of style (using a web standard—Cascading Style Sheets) and dynamic control (Javascript programming language, with version 2 using the new practice of DOMscripting) to the templates resulting in great looking, multi page electronic reports.

Trinity Projects web page templates can be downloaded from this site.  Electronic reports based on these templates can also be previewed.

We have considered the two external elements of Project web pages, we will now move on to how to include these in the export map and thus the web page.

If you haven't already downloaded the trinity projects web page templates I recommend that you do so now, as we will be making use of them in the next section—Defining an Export Map.

Resources

• The Quiz
• Web Page Tutorial
  • The Basic Process
  • Pictures
  • Templates
  • The Export Map
  • Mapping
• Resource Highlighting Tutorial
• Critical Path Presentation
• FAQ

All in one

Most web pages get their sleek, curvey, mutli-coloured looks by using graphics files which are downloaded along with the page text.  This isn’t a problem when the files are part of a web site, but it becomes an issue when you e-mail a web page.  When you e-mail a Word or PowerPoint document any graphics in the document are part of the document and you only have to attached that one file to your e-mail.  With a web page the graphics remain separate files and they have to be attached aswell, if you don't remember to attached these extra files your web page will not display properly when it is opened by the recipient.

To side step this issue the Trinity Projects web page templates have been constructed without the use of graphics files.  So when you create a Project Web page you have just the one file, this make it easy to place it on a web site or in an e-mail.

Note: If you include a Picture of your project in your web page this will be a separate file which will need to be attached to an e-mail along with the web page.