What is the Digital Collimation Toolbar?

The toolbar is an add-in component for Internet Explorer® and Windows Explorer®. This component allows you to maintain your brand presence on clients' web browsers, and provide your web site's guests with quick, convenient access to your products and information whenever they are connected to the Internet.

What does the Toolbar "do"?

The buttons, menus, and search boxes displayed in the toolbar are configured by a data feed from a web server, allowing you to change the appearance and content of the toolbar at any time.

After you have made an update to your toolbar's definition, the toolbar on all client PCs will display the new or modified toolbar content the next time it is scheduled to refresh the toolbar from the web site (in open browsers) or as soon as they launch a new browser.

Clicking on a toolbar button, or an item in one of the toolbar drop-down menus, displays the web page you have configured for that item in the toolbar definition on the web server.

How is the Toolbar installed?

Users download a standard Windows Installer® setup program from your web site, and run this package on their PC. If the user's PC does not already have the .Net Framework v1.1 installed, the setup routine will allow them to download and install the Framework at that time.

How is the Toolbar uninstalled?

The toolbar may be uninstalled (or repaired) by running the setup program a second time, or via the Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs option.

Is the Toolbar "configurable"?

Client-Configurable Items

Toolbar download delay at launch (None/10-60 sec.)

Toolbar refresh frequency (1-24 hrs.)

Check for Toolbar Software Updates (1 wk.-3 mo.)

Server-Configurable Items

Number of toolbar buttons

Content of button image (or no image) for each button

Button text

Button tool-tip text

"Search" URL

Menu Item Text

URL activated by each menu selection

Menu nesting

Number of menus and submenus

Menu separators