Add a Flash Carousel to a Freeway Page

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As a request from eus here: http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/40869

I’ve added a tutorial how to add a Flash Carousel into a Freeway pages here:

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/

David

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I have uploaded my carousel to my server, but cannot see the images. The images have been uploaded to the server for sure, as I checked for them in the control panel file manager. Also, each time I upload to my server, it creates a new file called defaulta.xml, defaultb.xml, etc. Maybe the images are in the wrong spot?? Don’t know, I am new at this. Please help. I have been working for about 6 hours on this.

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Hi there,

If you are certainly right that the images are in the right spot.
Try this. I had this several times!
When it is .jpg rename it to .jpeg.
Several times with different occasions i had this as solution!

Good luck!

marianne

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Did you try deleting the file that has the added “a,b,c,d” etc from the Resources folder in Freeway? (after first backing it up somewhere just in case Freeway tanked your file.) I know, I know, don’t mess with the Resources folder, but sometimes Freeway gets confused and does this. Sort of how it handles graphic items that share the same name. Strange.

Do you have a sample page to look at so we can dissect the problem?

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…The images have been uploaded to the server for sure, as I checked for them in the control panel file manager. Also, each time I upload to my server, it creates a new file called defaulta.xml, defaultb.xml,

Personally I have used an FTP app like Transmit to upload the default.xml and image files so that FW cannot mess with them. I find it easier to put the images in their own folder “carousel_images” for example and give them generic names like image1.jpg, image2.jpg so then I can change the images by just uploading a revised image1.jpg without having to change the default.xml file. Just make sure that the path to your image folder is correct in the default.xml file.

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Thank you all for responding. Ok, here was the problem. default.xml was uploaded to the resources folder, but it was in the wrong path. The file kept looking for it in my html folder. So I moved it along with the jpegs and presto!! Now if I could just figure out why my htaccess file is empty. Oh well, I keep learning! But thanks for all your help everyone!

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good evening (or really good morning) to all! I am very interested in this action and am trying it out… and will try some of those tips listed above. I want to use this on a page with other things - is this possible?

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Its not an action, its a tutorial telling you how to get the Flash
carousel working inside a Freeway page.

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-add-a-flash-carousel-in-freeway/

Yes it will work along side other things on a page.

On 6 Mar 2009, at 04:04, swimmer35 wrote:

good evening (or really good morning) to all! I am very interested
in this action and am trying it out… and will try some of those
tips listed above. I want to use this on a page with other things -
is this possible?

David

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Thank you david,

I have this “working” but not finding the images that are loaded
I have them in the main folder

here is what is going on:

www.grdesigns.net/iphoneapp

can you help please? thank you again

J:)
On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:37 AM, David Owen wrote:

Its not an action, its a tutorial telling you how to get the Flash
carousel working inside a Freeway page.

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-add-a-flash-carousel-in-freeway/

Yes it will work along side other things on a page.

On 6 Mar 2009, at 04:04, swimmer35 wrote:

good evening (or really good morning) to all! I am very interested
in this action and am trying it out… and will try some of those
tips listed above. I want to use this on a page with other things -
is this possible?

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Hi Julie,

It looks like the Carousel cannot find the images.

First thing to check is, have your image been uploaded? and if they
have, where are they?

Have you put your images into an (images) folder and uploaded this
(images) folder to your main directory?

David

Ok, you have two choice

On 6 Mar 2009, at 12:47, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Thank you david,

I have this “working” but not finding the images that are loaded
I have them in the main folder

here is what is going on:

www.grdesigns.net/iphoneapp

can you help please? thank you again

David Owen :: Freeway Friendly Web hosting and Domains ::

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk :: http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog

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Thank you I fixed it!!!

ahhhh one stress down!

On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:44 AM, David Owen wrote:

Hi Julie,

It looks like the Carousel cannot find the images.

First thing to check is, have your image been uploaded? and if they
have, where are they?

Have you put your images into an (images) folder and uploaded this
(images) folder to your main directory?

David

Ok, you have two choice

On 6 Mar 2009, at 12:47, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Thank you david,

I have this “working” but not finding the images that are loaded
I have them in the main folder

here is what is going on:

www.grdesigns.net/iphoneapp

can you help please? thank you again

David Owen :: Freeway Friendly Web hosting and Domains ::

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk :: http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog

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Dear David,

I followed your carousel tutorial and managed to get the basic version working but I wanted to incorporate Lightbox into the equation, as per your link, but I get lost in all the basic scripting required in Lightbox. (Probably because I’m a very novice user of Freeway.)
Do you have a more advanced tutorial that goes through the exact steps to incorporate Lightbox into a Carousel within a Freeway webpage?

Thanks,

Oliver

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20 apr 2009 kl. 20.19 skrev Oliver Cukor:

Dear David,

I followed your carousel tutorial

Where can I find it?

Arne

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Arne,

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/

Oliver

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20 apr 2009 kl. 20.51 skrev Oliver Cukor:

Arne,

http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/

Thank you so much!

May I ask you, if you know of any easy to
learn / how to build a site in FW?

Cheers, Arne

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Arne,

Try the tutorials at the Softpress site.

http://softpress.com/support/freewaymoments.php

Oliver

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Hi Oliver

Sorry I don’t. I will try and update the post when I get a moment free.

David

On 20 Apr 2009, at 19:19, Oliver Cukor wrote:

Dear David,

I followed your carousel tutorial and managed to get the basic
version working but I wanted to incorporate Lightbox into the
equation, as per your link, but I get lost in all the basic
scripting required in Lightbox. (Probably because I’m a very novice
user of Freeway.)
Do you have a more advanced tutorial that goes through the exact
steps to incorporate Lightbox into a Carousel within a Freeway
webpage?

Thanks,

Oliver

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Thanks David.

I will look out for it.

Oliver

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Dear David,

One more thing. Do you know anyone experienced enough to do this project on my behalf? Or do you do freelance web work?

Oliver

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22 apr 2009 kl. 00.01 skrev Oliver Cukor:

Dear David,

One more thing. Do you know anyone experienced enough to do this
project on my behalf?

Dear Oliver and Dear David!

Where is the Flash Carousel itself…? :wink:
THAT I am interested in!
And to see how it is being done.

Cheers, Arne

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