Converting your Quandary Maze to a Web Page

The last step you will take in preparing your case study, adventure game, or other Quandary maze for students is to convert it to a Web page. Up to now you have created and edited your maze in the Quandary program and saved it in its native file format. This file format is excellent for these purposes, but it will not work on the World Wide Web.

When you convert your maze to a Web page, it will create a single page with a great deal of JavaScript code in it. Unless you are an exceptional JavaScript programmer, you will probably not want to try to edit this code directly when you make changes to the maze. Therefore, you should make sure that you have a copy of the Quandary file around for additions and edits. When you make such changes in Quandary, you must save the file, convert it to a Web page again, and publish it to your server before students will see the changes.

There are two possibilities for converting your maze to the Web. One uses plain HTML and the other uses XHTML. If you use the second, then your students MUST have more recent browsers. This is not a major hardship, since the latest browser versions can be downloaded for free, but it might be a challenge for less technologically sophisticated students.

To convert your maze:

• Make sure that you have saved the maze in Quandary format.
• Go to the File menu and choose either Export to HTML or Export to XHTML
  • If you are converting to plain HTML you can also
    • Click the Export button on the toolbar 
    • Press the F9 key.
• Navigate to the folder where you want the page to be saved, give the file a name, and click the Save button.