There’s nothing all that difficult about this, with the exception of
the fading transitions between photos. But I recommend you try doing
it old-school first with separate pages for each photo, and then add
the fading behavior later. Get the structure there, understand how to
create the links, and then work out the cool effects.
Make a folder for each gallery to live in, using the Site pane in
Freeway and the cog menu at its bottom.
Inside each folder, make a single page for each photo in that set.
Create a “back to index” button, and link it to your gallery index
page. Create your previous and next buttons, and apply the Link to
Page Action to them, setting each to the direction you wish to
navigate. (After you make the first page, promote it to a Master Page
and make a bunch of copies – this will speed things up tremendously.)
Drag the pages to change their order, making sure that the first page
in your set is the index.html (filename) page, so you don’t have any
surprises when you navigate into that folder.
Back up a level, at your “gallery index” page, make a thumbnail image
for each gallery and link it to the index page in each gallery folder.
Preview in a browser, and see that everything works. At this point,
you may just as well stop if you like, because you have a working site
that shows all the photos and allows the visitor to navigate without
getting lost.
If I have some time later, I’ll post something about how to extend
this basic site to use effects to fade between photos, but remember
you need something for the non-scripted to fall back on, so this is a
good thing to have built in the first place.
Walter
On Jul 16, 2009, at 11:26 AM, julie maxwell allen wrote:
the slideshow on the link: http://yourpicturestory.com is exactly
what I want… the click to get into plus the separate galleries
shown…to choose from…
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