Getting Started
- Open the software.
- Fill in the blank fields, and select the options you wish to include in your toolbar.
- Generate your toolbar and installer.
- The installer is created for you, and will prompt you to compile on your screen.
- Test your installer on a different computer, or your own.
- Distribute your installation file so others can install your new toolbar.

Tip
When you create toolbars, make sure you give them different names.

Features
• Create branded, custom toolbars
• Link search pages directly to your own engine on your website
• Use any search engine that has a URL
• Build a custom search menu with up to 5 different search engines.
• Load images from your web server
• Load Ads and News in the toolbar that will show text to the user.
• User can click on the text and visit the link you specify
• Display dynamic content from your web server right in the toolbar
• Ads and news sections refresh every time the user starts Internet Explorer
• Use any server side files to generate news flashes and text ads for your toolbars.
• You can even use calendar events generated by your web server. You are only limited by your web programs.
• Content is created or set by you in your web server files, and the toolbar connects to your server every time your users open IE.
• Included IE History Eraser, no more leaving history across browser sessions.
• Use an image or logo to display your brand right in the toolbar.
• You can even include an image on the Search Menu bar.
• Adding graphics helps entice your users to click on the toolbar.
• The main image/logo is linked directly to your URL, so when a user clicks on it, they visit your website.

Enter the following information
- Toolbar Name
- Copyright Name
- URL Text (Display text for your website link only.)
- Website URL (The http:// link for your website.)
- About Message
- Logo File
- Logo can be .bmp, .jpg, .gif with a size of up to 36 x 20 pixels.
- Enter the full path to the image file on your web server.

Default Search
- This is automatically entered as Google US standard search.
- You can edit this to any search engine you wish, including a search page on your own website.

Select ‘Show Toolbar Favorite Links’
- This will display a favorite links menu for your users to store a list of websites.

Select ‘Show History Eraser for Internet Explorer’
- This will allow your users to erase IE history with a single click.

Select ‘Show Search Options Menu’
- You can create your own custom search menu and add up to five custom search strings here.
- Click on the “?” button to view a list of common search engine strings.
- You can enter as few as one, or up to five custom engines for your users to search with.

Enter the Logo File
- Logo can be .bmp, .jpg, .gif with a size of up to 36 x 20 pixels.
- Enter the full path to the image file on your web server.

Select ‘Show Rotating Text Ads’
- Enter the full path to the Ads file on your web server.
- See the section titled ‘Ads Content Tips’ for full information.
- See the section titled ‘Using …. Helper Programs’ on how this software can help you create this file.

Select ‘Show Rotating News Flashes’
- Enter the full path to the News file on your web server.
- See the section titled ‘News Content Tips’ for full information.
- See the section titled ‘Using…. Helper Programs’ on how this software can help you create this file.

Click on Generate Toolbar to create your toolbar
- You will be prompted to select a Folder to save your new programs to.
- You will then be prompted to create an installation package. You can decide if you wish to create this.
- Select the file location to save your installer file.
- Once you save this, it will open the Inno Installer compiler that is prepackaged with this software for you.

Follow the on-screen prompt
- In the Inno Compiler, select BUILD, then COMPILE from the menus at the top of the window.
- Do not edit the installation file. It is built automatically by the software so that all you need to do is compile your installer.
- Your installation file will be saved to a sub-folder called “setup” in the same folder as your installation file. You can open this folder, and test your setup.

You should have files similar to the following now
- Ads Builder is the program you can use to create your Ads file.
- Settit.tbr is a settings file.
- Toolbar.dll is your toolbar
- Test is the installer file that we compiled into a setup program.

Ensure that you upload any required files that you linked to in your toolbar
- This includes images, ads file, and news file.
- These files are loaded when the user starts Internet Explorer, so these files must be on a web server.

You are ready to test your setup program now, run the setup program and ensure all your files are linked correctly, and your toolbar works as expected
- If a feature isn’t doing what you wanted, ensure that the links entered are correct by trying them in your web browser.
- Ensure that the search engine strings are correct by following the same procedure and visiting the links using your web browser.

Once you have tested your toolbar, you are ready to share your setup program with the world!

Ad Content Tips
- The maximum length of your text message is 41 characters
- The URL is not limited in size.
- Do not use | or * characters, no limitations outside these.
- You can point the toolbar to any Internet based file on any web server.
- The Ads file can be created by anything, as long as the format is correct.

For Web Developers
- The format is: text|link*text|link*text|link
- There are no carriage returns, spaces or other characters.
- You can point to an HTML, PHP, CGI, or other file type, so long as the output of that file matches the required format for the toolbar to use.

News Content Tips
- The maximum length of your text message is 28 characters
- The URL is not limited in size.
- Do not use | or * characters, no limitations outside these.
- You can point the toolbar to any Internet based file on any web server.
- The News file can be created by anything, as long as the format is correct.

For Web Developers
- The format is: text|link*text|link*text|link
- There are no carriage returns, spaces or other characters.
- You can point to an HTML, PHP, CGI, or other file type, so long as the output of that file matches the required format for the toolbar to use.

Using The Ads Or News Builder Helper Programs
Both the Ads Builder and News Builder programs operate the same way.

Differences
- Ads text is 41 characters long, while News text is 28.
- Ads file is called ‘filename.ads’ and the News file is called ‘filename.news’.
- Enter your text to display to the user in the toolbar.
- Enter the URL to visit when the user clicks on the text.
- Click on Add Item.
- To remove an item, select it in the list, then click Remove Item.
- Click on Create File.
- Your .ads file will be saved in the same folder as the AdsBuilder program.
- Upload your .ads file to your web server at the location you indicated when building your toolbar.
- The same steps are used to create the News file.*

Notes
Remember that the toolbars you create are intended for Internet Explorer. They will work on IE 5.5 or higher.

System Compatibility
Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 | Internet Explorer 5.5 +, Internet Explorer 6

Tips
- It is recommended that each toolbar created be tested before distribution to potential customers/users. This will ensure that all your features are working as intended and that the URL’s for images and files are correct.
- When you configure a more complex system on your web server using PHP, CGI, or another language; visit the URL with your browser to ensure that the output is in the correct format for the toolbar.

*You may wish to use the services of a professional programmer to create these advanced program systems.