Shizam's Flash Slideshow

[Baldy]

We love BigWebGuy and his Slideshow hack, but Flash is sssoooo ssssmmmooootttthhhhh....

We've been working for 3 months on a slideshow that you can put on your home page or embed in blogs, forums, etc. With options.

We think it's solid enough now for ye of the cutting edge to give it a whirl. Well, the code is solid, the docs not so much. That's coming but here's a start.

Here's what it looks like for medium-sized images.

Many options are available and you can read about them here. Shizam will drop in when he can to answer questions. We're definitely working on the docs and a box that lets mere mortals place it on their SmugMug home pages easily. But we think the code is solid.

Here are some examples on SmugMug home pages:

Moon River Photography
Big Web Guy's site
Photoscape Design

Let us know what you think!

All the best,
Baldy


EDIT: Tutorial available on how to set it up in the bio section.

IMPORTANT! Please see the GOTCHA at the bottom, here. It's important information about adding hidden text to your bio, both for SmugSearch and Google searches.

EDIT 2/28/08: It is NO LONGER required that you have the javascript code in your JS box for this slideshow hack, we've built that in to the main SmugMug code You also do NOT need the body {opacity: 1;} statement in your CSS. The wiki instructions have been updated

[brandofamily]

Thanks for finally posting how this works and how to customize it
I know you've been working on it for awhile, I can across it on a few of the "heros'" pages and have been messing with it for about a week or so...

[Shizam]

Hah,
Thats great. Sneaky sneaky brando.

[aktse]

[Shizam]

Originally Posted by jfriend

This is a very cool new capability! I'm giving this a whirl. I can get the default configuration to show up, but I can't get the parameters showThumbs, showButtons or showLogo to work. I'm probably just not doing something right.

I set them to false, but all those features still show in the resulting slideshow. I'm using the <object> method and pasting the code into a gallery description. I'm putting the parameters in the
tag right after the object tag as shown in the example.

The slideshow itself works fine, just not the parameter control over the other things. The gallery where I was playing with it is here: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/gallery/2176658.

I see the problem, you've setup the parameters correctly for one (of the two tags), you have to set those same parameters for the other tag. It starts:

embed src="http...."

That should fix 'er up.

Shiz
</object>

[jfriend]

Originally Posted by Shizam

I see the problem, you've setup the parameters correctly for one (of the two tags), you have to set those same parameters for the other tag. It starts:

embed src="http...."

That should fix 'er up.

Shiz

That was it. Thanks. Am I supposed to put identical params in both places?

[jfriend]

Originally Posted by jfriend

That was it. Thanks. Am I supposed to put identical params in both places?

Hmmm. Works great in Firefox. When I go to http://jfriend.smugmug.com/gallery/2176658 in IE 7, I get this:



Other people's slideshows seem to work fine in IE7 so there's just something messed up with mine or some problem in IE with pasting these tags into a gallery description.

[LiquidAir]

Ooooo. That's very cool. I am going to have to give that a whirl. Any chance I can use a keyword search to drive it rather than a gallery?

[Desert-Rat]

Is there a configuration to show only horizontal images when drawing from a gallery that has both horizontals and verticals (like the popular gallery)?

[allaxis]

Hello All
Just wondering...If I'm to put this in my bio, is that the Bio available within the control panel?

If so, does that not nullify the use of my bio as a search engine tool. (I don't know if I worded that correctly, but I use my bio for Google and other search engines{keywords/metatags})?

Can I add the script in addition to my bio info or do I replace it all?
Or is my best option just to use the other option?

I'm probably thinking the wrong way, but please help me see the light.
Mike