eNews from standard site
This is probably the most innovative feature. I don't know any other application (such as iSilo, Plucker, etc.) which would allow you to point & click on the parts of a standard website you want to extract.
Let's see how it works. We insert the link (random pick
http://www.foxnews.com/), name it, limit the number of articles we want to download, and choose to include images (
snapshot07). Next we can select a logo for our eNews channel (
snapshot08). Now to the interesting part. Before we define the areas of an article to convert, we must define the sections that cover the particlar articles, called e.g. "Top News, "Policits", etc. (
snapshot09). eNews Creator then browses each sections and allows you define the area where the links to the articles appear (
snapshot10). Depending on the choice of your web page, this works sometimes better than other times.
In the next two steps, we define the title area for the articles - this can also be the page title (
snapshot11) - and the article content (
snapshot12). In general, choosing the article link area for each section, and the area of the article content can be a pain. It would be a good idea if Mobipocket added an option which gives the user the choice to unify webpage selection under all sections, since most websites keep a constant layout structure. As mentioned, after creating the eNews file you can preview your extraction with the emulator (
snapshot13).