Looking to create a simple fading slideshow for your website but you’ve heard expensive words like Flash and other programs thrown around that you may not know or have experience in and you just wish you could do it in Freeway? Well, here’s an alternative. In my last screen-cast I talked about MooTools and the power it has to accomplish great things simply through Weaver’s Action Suite. In this screen-cast I talk about using Weaver’s Fading Slideshow action and how to implement it into your Freeway-created web-pages.
Based off the Dynamic Drive website (which this is based off of) the description reads that this is a robust, cross browser fade-in slideshow Javascript-based DHTML script. It allows you to have multiple slideshows on the same page, optional linking for certain images, and the ability to randomize the display order. It also has the ability to pause when the mouse is over it and did I mention that it’s compatible with major browsers like IE, NS6+, Firefox, Safari? One final feature, specifically in Weaver’s Action, is that it allows your Freeway image that you import to be the first slide in your slideshow or as the image to be shown in-case a specific browser has Javascript turned off.
In 3 minutes you’ll master how the Action works and how to setup slideshow’s on your pages all through simple Javascript built into the action. It is also very iPhone friendly as I’ve used this on a few website projects.
Thank you for the screencast. A bit of confusion may arise from the wording of the above post and related blog entry.
The Action highlighted in the Screencast is a predecessor to, and separate from the ‘mootools Suite’. Mootools Suite users already have the equivalent action installed and ready for use under the name ‘moo:Slideshow Gallery’.
The Action highlighted is in fact freeware, using a library from dynamic drive. If you are looking for just this effect without the mootools library, enjoy.
It’s why this forum needs an ‘edit’ button. I got two screen-cast’s mixed up. All is changed, except for this thread header and I’ve made the changes requested by your Blogger comment.
It’s why this forum needs an ‘edit’ button. I got two screen-cast’s mixed up. All is changed, except for this thread header and I’ve made the changes requested by your Blogger comment.
Sorry for the confusion.
When you figure out how to edit an e-mail that’s already been sent, be sure to let your Congressman know. I think there are quite a few people that would love to be able to do that.
Sometime around 1/10/08 (at 15:57 -0400) Dan J said:
It’s why this forum needs an ‘edit’ button.
Not compatible with a conversation that is delivered by email to a
significant number of participants. Don’t worry about it, just send a
correction if necessary.
You sort of can… there are emails whose content is a downloaded image - of
text. At a later date the image - and ‘text’ is changed.
Cant recall the online service that enables these but it is open to being
used for dishonest practice.
all the best
Brian
waltd said recently:
On 1 Oct 2008, 7:57 pm, Dan J wrote:
It’s why this forum needs an ‘edit’ button. I got two screen-cast’s mixed
up. All is changed, except for this thread header and I’ve made the changes
requested by your Blogger comment.
Sorry for the confusion.
When you figure out how to edit an e-mail that’s already been sent, be sure to
let your Congressman know. I think there are quite a few people that would
love to be able to do that.
Most forum sites already do have an edit button, but I know this site also runs a mailing-list as well. Simple re-entries will have to do.
21 new people have gotten the new version, so to the 20+ people that downloaded to wrong version, sorry for the confusion. It’s been a long week and it’s only Wednesday.
Most forum sites already do have an edit button, but I know this site also runs a mailing-list as well. Simple re-entries will have to do.
This site never was a forum board in the usual sense. It is really an email distribution list with a user interface that resembles a forum. It does a pretty good job of pretending to be a forum but there are some things, such as editing that it cannot do.
Sometime around 1/10/08 (at 22:26 +0100) Brian Steere said:
You sort of can… there are emails whose content is a downloaded image - of
text. At a later date the image - and ‘text’ is changed.
Only in email clients that don’t cache the data. Eudora stores
attached and embedded files locally, not even in a transient local
cache, so Eudora users (there are still lots of us!) will still see
the graphic that was in place the first time around.
The moo:Slideshow Gallery (which has been part of the Suite for some time) is applied to an html item, not an image. You must have an html item or table cell selected for the option to show itself in the Item>Action sub-menu. This is likely the source of your confusion.
The html choice is strictly for ease of layout as the slideshow follows the same positioning rules as an html item. The drawback is that you will not receive visual feedback in the FW design space of this Action addition.