Exhibeo in iWeb

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Can you tell me if its possible to add a nice exhibeo slideshow to an iWeb site. I know you can use the snippet widget to add the body code, but I can’t seem to work out the right code to add into the head part.

Any advice would be appreciated as the exhibeo site recommends we come here to ask our questions. Thank you.

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Valerie,

I just cracked open the bolted-shut, iron-plated, and padlocked box into which I have placed iWeb into to figure this out.

Long story short, yes, you can. It’s pretty easy too, and fast, if you just follow these directions to the word:

  1. Export the Exhibeo project as HTML to your desktop and open the .html file you find in it.
  2. Forget about the code you put in the for now, but copy the code.
  3. In your iWeb site, insert a HTML widget on the page (remember the page name). Make it as large as you would like the gallery to appear, and paste the code into it.
  4. Publish the iWeb site.

This is where it begins to get a little tricky. When you use the HTML widget, iWeb actually creates a whole new page for it, then imbeds it into the page with an iFrame.

  1. In the files that iWeb publishes, find the “somepage_files” folder that corresponds with the page that contains the gallery in iWeb. If the pages name is “Gallery” in iWeb, you should be looking for the folder titled “Gallery_files”.
  2. Drag and drop all the files/folders inside the Exhibeo export folder into there.
  3. Still in that “somepage_files” folder, find the correct “widgetX_markup.html” file, the “X” representing a number. To do this, simply double-click all of the “widgetX_markup.html” files you find in that folder. They will open in Safari. One of them will display one of the Exhibeo images. Look at the page title, and open up that file. For example, if the page title is “widget1_markup.html”, then find the “widget1_markup.html” file, inside of that “some page_files” folder. Open this with TextWrangler.
  4. Copy the code from the Exhibeo Export.
  5. Almost done! Find the tag. It’ll be right near the top. Right after it, paste that code from Exhibeo.

Save the file, and you should have a working Exhibeo Gallery in iWeb!

I hope this works for you!
Caleb

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On a side note,

Once again, because of how iWeb embeds those HTML widgets as an iFrame, the gallery won’t show up full screen, but only as large as you sketched in the HTML widget (full screen for the iFrame).

This is a limitation on iWeb’s part, not Exhibeo’s.

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Hello Caleb.

Thank you for digging deep and finding you copy of iWeb for me. I’m sure it was grateful for the airing.

Whilst that sounds a bit tricky, your instructions seem clear so I will go through them a little later and attempt my first gallery. No wonder I could not fathom it out myself.

Valerie.

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Caleb,

Thank for you the detailed instructions. I’ve been able to successfully add Exhibeo content to the Web, but what happens when I want to change the slideshow? Changing the body HTML is obviously easy. Do I need to delete the Exhibeo content I added in FTP and start over?

Becky

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Becky,

Yes, you will need to delete the content and start again fresh.

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