Adobe Flash Player prompt

[jpc]

Our slide shows don't work if the user doesn't have the latest version of Flash Player installed, and sometimes it takes a while for the splash screen to show up. Both of these issues result in the user not realizing that there is a slide show, because they're looking at a blank screen and they just click past it. I figure I have about two seconds for a prompt or splash screen to show up or else I'm just wasting my time creating a slide show.

I would like to insert a graphic on my homepage, directly behind the slide show location that says something like "slide show loading..." if they have the correct version of Flash Player, and a different graphic, with a link to the current version of Flash Player if they don't already have it. I did try using a "slide show loading.." graphic as my splash screen, but again, it takes too long to pop up and people are clicking my galleries link and blowing right through my homepage.

Any ideas?

[jfriend]

If you create a 380x380 graphic (slightly smaller than the size of your 400x400 slideshow), upload it to your Smugmug account and then use this CSS (putting in the URL to your own image instead of mine):

#userBio {background: transparent url(http://jfriend.smugmug.com/photos/344291068_HdnTo-380x380.jpg) center no-repeat;}

You should end up with a background behind the slideshow that doesn't show once the slideshow loads.

[jpc]

That get's the graphic up, but it shows in between slide show images, during the cross-fade.

[jfriend]

That get's the graphic up, but it shows in between slide show images, during the cross-fade. I guess you would need a non-transparent slideshow to solve that issue, but I don't know how to do that.

[jpc]

No sweat. I do appreciate the help. I'm starting to think that an interesting homepage that everyone can see might be more practical than a slide show that people only see once and a while. Maybe I'll work on a static image. In that case, it would be similar css but I would be calling out the homepage instead of the user bio, right?

[jfriend]

No sweat. I do appreciate the help. I'm starting to think that an interesting homepage that everyone can see might be more practical than a slide show that people only see once and a while. Maybe I'll work on a static image. In that case, it would be similar css but I would be calling out the homepage instead of the user bio, right? That depends upon where you want to put the image. You could also just use an <img> tag in the bio itself to control your own HTML for the page.

[jpc]

Ok, you lost me. Could I bother you for example of how that might work?

[jfriend]

Ok, you lost me. Could I bother you for example of how that might work? In your bio, where you can put your own text (and where you slideshow declaration is now), you are allowed to put your own HTML. It can literally be anything so you can make an entire custom homepage in HTML if you want. One of the things you can use in HTML is an <img src="xxxx" border="0"> tag which lets you put images in the HTML. You do have to know how to make your own HTML in order to use this technique.

[jpc]

Thanks for the explanation. I think that might be a little beyond what I'm currently able to do, so I'm thinking that I might just create an 800x800 graphic and use it as the background for my homepage. I'm sure that's relatively easy and there's probably tons of searchable info if I get stuck. I don't want to waste your time on something that's probably already been explained 1000 times.