Andy, the Slideshow Pro/Director are both from the same company and I paid $50 roughly for the combo. Director resides on your server and allows the individual edits on photos, albums, and galleries as I mentioned. This was a low cost means to an end for my situation, but your situation may feel different. I thought Freeway Pro was going to be my once-for-all solution for my photography website. It’s not (in my limited capacity to do anything on the web) for now. So I have invested in Showit Sites to showcase the front side of my website and I use Freeway Pro in combo with Slideshow Pro to make my client proof sites and blog template.
I see now from your explanation that you’re really wanting to get that iWeb functionality into Freeway Pro. I full realize that iWeb does an amazing slideshow - I just needed something a bit different. I dont know for sure, but iframes might be an option in Freeway Pro (to get that iWeb page embedded in it).
I am finding I have to use whatever apps I can to get the job done. I wish I knew all the Adobe products like the back of my hand, but its a level I cannot attain any time soon. Freeway Pro and the side apps I use are getting the job done… and changes come as my knowledge increases.
On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Andy Johnstone wrote:
Beatrice, Dan,
Thank you both for your input.
B’s Slideshow/Director solution sounds like it would be a lot of hassle which is exactly what I am trying to avoid! Apart from anythigng else, why do I want to have to buy more software for this job? How much is Director (and I assume I am talking about Macromind Director…?) All the flexibility that B seems to think she has achieved in Slideshow, is built right in to the the slideshow option in iWeb and works “righ out the box”. If I want to change a slide show, delete or add an image, I just go back to the editor, add/delete/juggle the running order in my page on iWeb and the rest is done for me. I am working with the images direct form my Aperture Archive too, so any changes I have made to the image can be altered in iWeb in seconds.
I understand the comments about not wanting to upload the whole slideshow or site every time you make a change, but I guess this does not really matter since the upload could be whirring away in the background while I get on with something else. Perhaps iWeb uploads incrementally like Freeway? Ie. Only the files that have changed get replaced on the server? Dunno.
Frankly this problem has me stumped. I have shelled out for Freeway Pro, I like the app and I like its style. It was a breeze to use compared to using Dreamweaver, But looking at it from a user’s POV, and from a photographer’s Freeway has all the right customisable design flexibility about it, but this slideshow thing is a gaping hole in it’s armour which iWeb saunters right through, licking an ice cream as it goes. Surely someone in the “clever people” department at Softpress can develop a bit of code to emulate this very clever slide show trick in iWeb?
Andy