San Antonio College

Tutorial 2 ~ Instructions for Creating a Website Using ArcIMS

 If you have any questions about the procedures described in this tutorial please contact Dr. Dean P. Lambert at 210-733-2828 (or dlambert@accd.edu).

1. Open ArcIMS Author (example 1).
2. Add the shapefiles you want to be part of your project by clicking on the little plus sign which is located just under the “L” in Layer.
3. Then double-click on "Local" in the dialog box.  Navigate to the folder where your shapefiles are located (example 2).  Add them one at a time or as groups.  It does not matter.
4. Once the shapefiles are in your view you can change their colors and symbology by double-clicking on the symbol in the legend for each shapefile (example 3).  You can also change the order of their display by drag them higher or lower in the legend box.  Other characteristics can be set in the view as well.  For example you can change how a layer looks by double-clicking on the layer in the table of contents.  This action will pop open a menu for changing the layer properties (example 4, example 5, example 6, example 7).
5. Once you are satisfied with the view you can save it as an AXL file by going to the File pull-down menu and selecting Save.  Give a short but meaningful name to your project.
6. You may now close ArcIMS Author.
   

1. Open ArcIMS Administrator.  It will ask you for a password (example 8).  The User Name is arcims and the password is arcims.
2. Click on Services in the left-hand side bar (example 9).
3. Now, go to the Service pulldown menu and select New (example 10).  Give it a short but meaningful name.
4. Click on the little square box to the right of the blank space underneath Map File (example 11).
5. Select the AXL file you created in ArcIMS Author (example 12).  Hit Open.
6. For the Virtual Image blank space select ImageServer1.
7. For the Image Type blank space select Portable Network Graphics 24-bit (*.PNG).
8. There is no need to change anything else on this dialog, so hit OK at the bottom of the dialog.
9. You should now be able to see the Service Name you just created on the list in ArcIMS Administrator.
10. You may now close ArcIMS Administrator.
    

1. Open ArcIMS Designer
2. Type in a short but meaningful name for the website directory, and hit Next (example 13).
3. Select the server you created in ArcIMS Administrator (example 14).
4. Hit the -> (right arrow).  Hit Next.
5. A Java or HTML Viewer dialog box will appear (example 15).  On this dialog you should select Html Viewer, then hit Next.
6. Hit Next again on the Web Site Template dialog box (example 16).
7. A Map Extent dialog box will appear.  Select which view extent you want to use (example 17).  You can go with the defaults values if you are uncertain, and hit Next.
8. An Overview Map dialog box will appear (example 18).  This is where you can use a simpler overview map.  However, if you had not already created a simpler (different overview map in ArcIMS Author) it is unnecessary at this point.  If you have not created a special overview map, just select your original service again, and then hit Next.
9. A Scale Bar dialog box will appear (example 19). You can change values if you choose.  Once completed, you should hit Next.
10. Select your tools that you want include in the web viewer (example 20).  I usually select all of them.  Then hit Next.
11. Select Create Website (example 21).
12. You may now close ArcIMS Designer
    

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Type in the following address, plus the name of your map service:   http://cg-200-000009/website/
3. For example if your service is called “test2” you should navigate to:  http://cg-200-000009/website/test2
4. Hit the Enter key on your keyboard.  Your map service should appear in the browser.

 If you have any questions about the procedures described in this tutorial please contact Dr. Dean P. Lambert at 210-733-2828 (or dlambert@accd.edu).

Last updated on June 8, 2004