I want to create a slideshow using Freeway Pro. To eliminate my maintenance costs I want the non-technical client to be able to change the photos whenever she wants. I’d also like the slideshow to be viewable on all platforms.
I like the Flickr solution because I can code it once and the client can change photos at her convenience, but it’s based on Flash and I’d prefer to avoid that technology given that it won’t work on iOS.
Any good options out there? Thank you for your help.
Flickr has a number of different APIs, I’m not aware that you are married to Flash at all here.
Google ‘Flickr gallery javascript’, and see what you get. My guess is hundreds or thousands of ways to skin this cat.
Walter
On Nov 6, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Hal wrote:
I want to create a slideshow using Freeway Pro. To eliminate my maintenance costs I want the non-technical client to be able to change the photos whenever she wants. I’d also like the slideshow to be viewable on all platforms.
I like the Flickr solution because I can code it once and the client can change photos at her convenience, but it’s based on Flash and I’d prefer to avoid that technology given that it won’t work on iOS.
Any good options out there? Thank you for your help.
Thanks Walter. I’m not finding anything that really works easily with Freeway, however. I like the idea of flickrshow, but I can’t get the images to display completely for some reason. Other solutions require me to download software or install something on the server and I don’t want to do that.
I’ll keep at it, but I just need something to generate code that points to a set so when the client updates the set, the changes automatically appear.
Flickrshow is pretty simple, but you need to find the correct ID to use. If you’re signed in to Flickr, this form will help you find a particular user’s ID:
If you’re trying to show your own photos, and you are signed in to Flickr, then your User ID will be shown on the right side of that page under “Useful Values”.
I was very confused by this system at first, but once I played with it a little, it seems to have a lot of good features. I wrote a little Action for it in the process, but I’m not done with it yet.
Walter
On Nov 6, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Hal wrote:
Thanks Walter. I’m not finding anything that really works easily with Freeway, however. I like the idea of flickrshow, but I can’t get the images to display completely for some reason. Other solutions require me to download software or install something on the server and I don’t want to do that.
I’ll keep at it, but I just need something to generate code that points to a set so when the client updates the set, the changes automatically appear.
Safari may be following the rules – there is a special header that a server can send that restricts whether the content may be shown in a frameset (or iframe).
Walter
On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Hal wrote:
Good idea David. That worked in Firefox, but not in Safari.
At the top I have the normal Flickr flash-based slideshow, then there’s a video and then at the bottom there’s the (very thin) flickrshow approach. Why so thin? I can’t figure out how to get the dimensions right.
Instead of using the Markup Item or CrowBar that you used to enter the demo code, try using Freeway directly.
Double-click where you want the slideshow to appear, and choose Insert / HTML Item from the main menu. Click once on the resulting 100px square inline HTML box, and make sure that the CSS checkbox is checked in the Inspector. Then change the Title field of the inspector to read ‘robin’. Drag the bottom-right corner of the HTML box to the size you want your slideshow to be. Now, in the Page / HTML Markup dialog, choose Before /BODY from the picker, and enter all of the JavaScript there. The word robin is used to signal which box on the page the script relates to. They don’t need to be directly next to one another in the output code.
At the top I have the normal Flickr flash-based slideshow, then there’s a video and then at the bottom there’s the (very thin) flickrshow approach. Why so thin? I can’t figure out how to get the dimensions right.
Ahhh. Getting closer Walter. I re-read your instructions and made a few corrections to that I had previously done. How can I move the HTML box to where I want it though?
I know it’s an old thread, but I have a question on this:
Is Flickr still the best option for this, using Freeway 7 in a responsive template? How difficult is that?
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