Slideshow Tools – Makes Professional Slideshows for the Web
It’s Tuesday, and I want to introduce you to a handy, XML, Flash slideshow tool called Monoslideshow.
I’ve used it here in this blog on my About page to show you photos of the garden outside my office at home. And here is a web site I created for a client, for his private members club, that uses the tool extensively. (The client is now handling the slideshows himself – so if they are not working – they are HIS fault, OK?).
The point is though, that once set up Monoslideshow is really easy to use and clients can customise their own slideshows with a few minutes training.
You can set the slideshows up so each image has a description, or has no description, or only shows the description if there is one. There are many possibilities.
Slideshows With Complex Frames
Images can be arranged into galleries, each depicted by a thumbnail, or not. You can even create a mask so that the slideshow is not rectangular in shape – the mask can be quite involved. I’ve done a quick one here – glimpses of San Francisco as viewed through, some, err, trees.
Apologies for the really dreadful graphic. I just wanted to show you an irregular border on a slideshow can be achieved.
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Liz Jamieson August 12th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Thanks for pointing this out Terry – I’ll look into it. It used to work on this page . . .
. . . OK – I looked into it. It should be working now. I had to make changes to header.php on the theme to make the slideshow work in wordpress, and then when I changed the theme, I forgot to add the change to the new header.php.