Today i have assignment to create Interactive CD using Opensource software, this is another way to make it, i would rather that i choosen the HTML basic than interactive animation. There’s many tool and software to build interactive CD based on HTML.
The first step to make something is the idea,..yup, we need tool or software to manage our idea, we can use FreeMind.FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java, we can also use another tool like xmind, Open source software for mind mapping and brainstorming. this step will lead our project.

The second step is arrange our sitemap based on brainstorming at the first step above, we can also used freemind od xmind to do this. the simple sitemap can help us to manage and simplify our work.

Third step is create design concept of our interactive layout and design using Vector Ilustrator, I am used Inkscape Vector Graphic Editor to do this, this tool is popular vector editor in linux environment. this is the preview of design.

The Fourth step is make the html layout, we can used our basic concept idea in above as a guide to create and manage out HTML pages. we need HTML editor to facilitate our editing process, the famliar text editor whose support WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) is NVU/Kompozer, but this program often crash if we open and edit many table or content. Another WYSIWYG is Amaya, this program presented byW3C, Amaya is complete web browsing and authoring environment, for more information you can visit the official site here. This is the preview of amaya.

The fifth step is burning and duplicate our Interactive CD Project, we can use Brasero Cd Burning or K3b Cd Writing Program, before we
completed our job, we must create the start up script, we must create autorun.inf files into root project directory, this is the autorun code:

[autorun]
open=ShellRun.exe index.html Starting CD now...

another script running on linux env. we can use .sh extention, but it’s dosen’t run as well as autorun.inf in windows . this is the code

#/bin/bash
/bin/bash firefox index.html &

the last step is burning our Project on cd with Brasero or K3B cd writer program.