After you guys helped me with an earlier question, I was able to get some of my portfolio put together.
http://web.me.com/mosadciw/MOportfolio/index.html
The way I designed it I want to have some of the smaller images be clickable to bring up a larger image in lightbox effect. This works fine on this page:
http://web.me.com/mosadciw/MOportfolio/illustration-per.html
But on other pages, it doesn’t seem to work consistently. When I lay out the pages in Freeway, many of the images end up running off the pasteboard, so I have to select them by item from the left sidebar list (viewed as “Site”). When I select them there, I add the slimbox action with no problem. When I preview the page (or view it online) all of the images show up like they should, but the action won’t work, the image isn’t clickable. I noticed that items listed in the sidebar in Freeway that aren’t visible on the design page have an X in their corresponding icon box. No action applied to these items will work.
For an example, I have slimbox applied to the Skimcycle image (the yellow one) on this page, but nothing happens:
http://web.me.com/mosadciw/MOportfolio/illustration-veh.html
I’d appreciate any suggestions. Thanks again for reading this far in my long posts. 
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For an example, I have slimbox applied to the Skimcycle image (the yellow one) on this page, but nothing happens:
No evidence of Slimbox on that page!
many of the images end up running off the pasteboard, so I have to select them by item from the left sidebar list
Probably because your pages are so wide - just not wide enough.
BTW - you should upgrade to 5.4.3 at least - there are some bug fixes in there for earlier versions
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Rats. Maybe I took it out. I thought I had the latest version too. Ok, well, let me get that fixed up and I’ll repost again. Thanks for the quick response.
Mike
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Also you can change your pasteboard width which might help with your item selection. File>Document Setup
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Increase it or decrease it? I tried making it huge but it didn’t affect anything once I got it in a browser.
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Pasteboard width only affects your working space within FW.
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Ok. I updated Freeway first of all. I checked the item in question out and it did indeed have teh slimbox action associated with it (at least Freeway thinks so). I made a screenshot which may help:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2447142/freewaywindow.jpg
Anyway, I saved it and uploaded it again. Same problems.
Thanks again for the advice.
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Well that page (http://web.me.com/mosadciw/MOportfolio/illustration-veh.html) has no references to any javascript on it at all!
Try removing the action from that page then hold down the Ctrl Key while you choose File>Publish Everything
Reapply the action and try again.
For some reason the JS code is not being written to the page.
If that doesn’t work then you might try putting each of your graphics in its own div rather than them all being ‘loose’ in the parent div (item3?).
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Well, I tried what you suggested with the same result. It’s odd that the slimbox action works when it’s applied to the first or second image in the list, but not on any others. I’ll try the div suggestion next, though it may make the page so complicated to construct it might not be worth it, and I may need to rethink the design. I’ll let you know when I try that out.
Thanks.
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Personally I don’t find scrolling left to right particularly intuitive and it wouldn’t surprise me if it puts your visitors off.
But that is just my 2c
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Yeah, I saw a photographers site that did that and I thought it was cool, but it’s making the page hard to construct. This afternoon I tried to use moo:Slideshow to make a slideshow with the same images, since it includes the slimbox feature, but it keeps freezing up on me when I try to preview it in a browser: it hangs at the “building site: index.html” progress bar.
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Maybe one of your image files is corrupt?
Remove your images 1 by 1 and retry until you get success - that should point you at the culprit if that is what it is. Are they all RGB jpegs?
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I resaved the images and it seems to work now; I must have had a bad image. Well, I’ll do some more fiddling with slimbox, but if I can’t get that to work, maybe moo:Slideshow will do the trick. I’ll post the results soon.
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Don’t forget the script/protaculous based stuff like ScriptyLightbox.
It is not a good idea to use Moo and the FW native actions that use script/protaculous on the same page because of potential JavaScript Library conflicts.
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I noodled around with moo:Slideshow and got this to work:
http://web.me.com/mosadciw/MOportfolio/slideshowtest.html
It’s much more conventional, and I think easier to manage for me. I think I might go this way.
Thanks for the help.
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This is looking good but I have a couple of observations:
1 - The styling of the back/next arrows makes them difficult to see.
2 - The difference in size between the originals and the lightbox images doesn’t really justify its use. I would make the originals a good bit smaller so that the lightbox effect is more dramatic.
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You’re reading my mind. The arrows were a quick experiment to see if I could modify the arrow graphics to go with my site design. And, yeah, once I saw how the slideshow looked I realized the lightbox effect was kind of pointless. I think I’ll make the HTML box that contains the images more of a square so my wide or tall images fill the frame more consistently. I like this actions ability to turn on or off the slimbox effect by image, since i have quite a few images where it’s unnecessary.
I’ll post again as I get closer to finishing it. Thanks again for your advice.
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