Slide show as a web site feature?

[basketcase]

I can't think of any other place here to ask this, so here goes...

What software (or other) suggestions can the resident netizens offer for presenting a slide show as a web site feature?

Is this an add-in software type of thing, or a flash feature, or something that can be done in say, Windows media player?

I read someplace that Ifranview has a slide show feature.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Rick

 

[visian]

hi rick - how's it going?

if you use adobe dreamweaver as a publishing tool, i highly recommend v3 Flash Slideshow. it generates the flash code for you, so that you do not need to own flash to use it.

if not, there are tons of these on the market.

You might consider Photojam

or Flash Slideshow Maker

or Slide

these are a few off the top of my head.

i wonder when smugmug will offer something like this?

ian

 

[basketcase]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the note. At 16 days into this year things are fine. The family is well, work is steady, and I can still straddle my bike without having to consider triking it!

Compared to Atlanta, we have a little more water over here on our side of the border, but not much!

About the web question: the way it shakes out is like this.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with one being almost nothing, and 10 being an expert body of knowledge, I rank myself around a 1.5.

The guy I am trying to help has a zero knowledge of web sites.

So he knows nothing; I know almost nothing, and we are pooling our ignorance in hopes of success!

Howzzat for audacity?

Actually, I have a smidgen of experience with Front Page. I fell kicking and screaming into that software a while back when a project was dropped into my lap and I had no choice but to do something quick. (After a morning on the web to consider the options I thought that I might be happier long-term with Dream Weaver, but FP was a part of the MS Office suite and did not require a trip to the store or a budget decision).

In the process of the cram course on FP I learned that Expression Web is the replacement. So the next opportunity has come along and rather than invest more time in a program that is over, I am in the (shorter) learning curve with Expression Web. I have a sense of what needs to happen. However, the slide show thing is a unique challenge.

One of these days (I keep hoping) things will slow down and I'll be able to look into Dream Weaver, but at the moment, expedience is overruling that option.

Thanks for the links. IÔÇÖll spend some time with those and see what I can finagle for a slide show!

 

[PGlaves]

Since we have the new sig line rules to keep folks from being distracting and chewing up bandwidth, I can't even imagine why the forum would allow a slideshow to be imbedded in a post. But I can't wait to try it out so I can post "How I spent my Summer Vacation in 2000 slides covering 20000 miles. Whoo boy!

 

[visian]

paul - linking (or embedding an object on an html page) to a slideshow has no impact on bandwidth utilization on our servers. the content is coming from other servers.

rick - i forgot that many on-line photo hosting services like photobucket are starting to get into slideshow features.

ian

 

[basketcase]

Ian, maybe I'm just overlooking it, but is the Flash Slideshow Maker Vista compatible?

I like the looks of it, but I bought a Vista based desktop back around Thanksgiving and have been through the fire on the incompatible software issues.

So I want to know for sure before I click "Allow" and inadvertantly lock up the system!

 

[visian]

Ian, maybe I'm just overlooking it, but is the Flash Slideshow Maker Vista compatible?

i don't know. i checked their website and they don't say anything.

i bought a vista ultimate 64-bit machine about 9 months ago.... just had to be bleeding edge. the only issues i've had (and they've been painful) is with peripherals, like a printer. some programs work in a mode that makes the vista interface appear in a lower "experience" level (windows appear flat instead of dimensional/glassy) but every program i have works fine.

best to check with the program's maker though. they have a contact button on their site.

hope this helps.

ian

ps - after a year of ultimate vista, i decided to upgrade my mac and am going that way in the future. the new dual-core processors will run XP and that is exactly what i need.

 

[basketcase]

Hmm ... having touched the incompatitiblity hot heater a couple of times already, I think I'll pass on the Flash software and check out some of the others.

I did find a link to a slide show piece called JAlbum. http://jalbum.net

JAlbum makes for a pretty good show. The next link is to a JAlbum show done by a man out in Texas with whom I have corresponded some. His son is a Marine assigned to Iraq, and Howard did a slide show from photos his son sent home.

http://www.howiewaldman.com/images/Marines/album/index.html

Finally, here is a link to my personal web site and a write-up about my own "switch to Vista" adventure, software snags, printer driver potholes, etc.. It was a hoot!

http://phmforums.net/index.php?topic=172.0

For some reason, I am not getting the box to add a title to the hyperlinks, and I don't recall the syntax off the top of my head as to enter it manually.

At any rate, thanks again for the links. I'll read up some more and then make up my mind about something over the weekend and dive in!

Cheers,
RM

 

[voni]

paul - linking (or embedding an object on an html page) to a slideshow has no impact on bandwidth utilization on our servers. the content is coming from other servers.

rick - i forgot that many on-line photo hosting services like photobucket are starting to get into slideshow features.

ian

Like this?

http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg125/CowheadRanch/BD Surprise for Chris/?albumview=slideshow

I LOVE Photobucket!

Voni
sMiling

 

[PAULBACH]

Hey Voni,

Isn't PhotoBucket.com

FREE?