How to even get started customizing SLIDESHOW ?

[voicelit]

How can I just get started with slide show customization. Full screen, shizam, flash ? Is there any place to begin ? Anything to down load ?Anywhere the terms are defined? Lots of forum talk of how to do this and that, how cool the slide show is. Where to just start ? Can't be found.
Everything has a wrinkle to it that assumes too much. NOT how to have slideshow on BIO, just how to have slide show. Please.
All instructions comments, threads forget to say where to get, where to just get started.
Which slideshow is which : what's a shizam slideshow, what's a full screen slideshow, what's flash based slideshow ? Someone somewhere, please, make these things clear.
Would like to get started with slide show customizing, I think full screen with some tweaks, but can't even begin without some knowledge of the simplest terms.
What is the term for the slideshow style that has the large arrows (triangles) on either side of the photo, with large "pause" button in middle of photo ?
I always give these problems a couple of hours of hunting through the forums, threads, tutorials before asking. Always the same problem : guessing what magic words will bring up an answer, then : answers in tutorials or forums assume too much - leaving out the essential getting started info, OR : jump to some extra added tweak of the issue. You finally find some information on "slideshow" but it's how to have slideshow button flash in morse code on your toaster instead of your computer screen."
I wanted to mess around with a few tweaks of a slide show but just how to even get to the simplest , how to begin, where to download what, where to get the starter code would do for now.

Marty
(dotfur.com)

[voicelit]

Okay, so the FULL SCREEN with big hover over TRIANGLES back /forward, pause button in the middle of the photo * IS * the standard slide show.
Wonder how tweakable it is ?
Don't think some percentage of my clients/visitors woul know to hover over an area to make bak/forward arrows/triangles appear. Wish there was a way to make them more visable?
Wish : text up top : " return to gallery" etc " hide captions" " med. fast" was larger or more easy to find quickly.
Would want the slideshow to be "static," only going forward or back or forward on its' own only when clicked.
Wish I could make "slideshow" the first viewing style when a pic from a collection of pics ( gallery) is chosen/clicked. Not : in some smugmug viewing style -say, like : traditional... a pic is clicked , and then presented in that style with "slideshow" an option above it to the right; instead : pic in gallery collection is chosen/clicked : and "slideshow" full screen comes up with option to view another style an option somewhere.
This area of my site is what I'm trying to tweak : http://dotfur.smugmug.com/CLIENTS

Thanks for any help ?

Marty ( dotfur.com )










How can I just get started with slide show customization. Full screen, shizam, flash ? Is there any place to begin ? Anything to down load ?Anywhere the terms are defined? Lots of forum talk of how to do this and that, how cool the slide show is. Where to just start ? Can't be found.
Everything has a wrinkle to it that assumes too much. NOT how to have slideshow on BIO, just how to have slide show. Please.
All instructions comments, threads forget to say where to get, where to just get started.
Which slideshow is which : what's a shizam slideshow, what's a full screen slideshow, what's flash based slideshow ? Someone somewhere, please, make these things clear.
Would like to get started with slide show customizing, I think full screen with some tweaks, but can't even begin without some knowledge of the simplest terms.
What is the term for the slideshow style that has the large arrows (triangles) on either side of the photo, with large "pause" button in middle of photo ?
I always give these problems a couple of hours of hunting through the forums, threads, tutorials before asking. Always the same problem : guessing what magic words will bring up an answer, then : answers in tutorials or forums assume too much - leaving out the essential getting started info, OR : jump to some extra added tweak of the issue. You finally find some information on "slideshow" but it's how to have slideshow button flash in morse code on your toaster instead of your computer screen."
I wanted to mess around with a few tweaks of a slide show but just how to even get to the simplest , how to begin, where to download what, where to get the starter code would do for now.

Marty
(dotfur.com)

[Allen]

Okay, so the FULL SCREEN with big hover over TRIANGLES back /forward, pause button in the middle of the photo * IS * the standard slide show.
Wonder how tweakable it is ?..
It's not tweakable. Maybe sometime in the future. It's been mentioned in the
feature request and show threads.