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Ok, I've had Monoslideshow for almost 3 months now (or more) and excitedly started work on my portfolio page.
I know so little about HTML and web design, and as a graphic designer I've been avoiding web work like the plague. (Only because of my friends horror stories about clients).
My page is simple enough... a splash page, then a main pge with the viewer in the middle.
THe MS program is also simple... the location of the thumbs and images, as well as the code in the XML file. Very basic.
But for some reason, the slideshow would work from the desktop, but not when uploaded to my FTP. This is a common issue (I've read 4 other posts relating to this, I think one might have been mine from a while ago.)
So here's how I got it working. Instead of having a separate folder with the slideshow in it (like the default Monoslideshow folder), the XML file, movie, other file(s) and the album folders are ALL in the root directory. For some reason this makes it work. It wasn't like I was missing pictures or had bad paths, it would actually give me an error message and would not load, or said it was unable to read the XML file.
The one issue this created was that my host (not sure how they all work) looked at this index file to start, so on my host's site I had to use the "domain pointer" or "redirect" to tell it to go to another folder to kick off the website, then have the right paths set in Dreamweaver to tell it where to look for the next page. But having this page in the same root dorectory with all the Monoslideshow stuff seems to fix it.
Here's the site, I'm still working on it, but so far so good.
I see Monoslideshow working on your page now :)
creator of MonoslideshowThat solved my difficulties in GoLive as well. I had been trying to make a portfolios.html page in my root folder access the slideshow in another folder. Eventually I had to drag everything from the monoslideshow folder into the root and all is well.
Many thanks to Monokai, this is a great program. Being a complete novice, I did have a lot of trouble initially, and a lot of my questions weren't answered by the manual. I think some screen shots would have been helpful, especially for setting up file structures and placing the slideshow into an existing page (I'm still not 100% clear on how to do that, I "cheated" and used the index page Lightroom generated, then added my header & navigation above the slideshow). The Turning Gate Lightroom gallery really helped speed things up, and I think it will make my portfolio easy to update with new photos.
I still have a few kinks to work out, which I will post under another thread, but so far here it is:
<a href="http://www.hilarybronwyngayle.com/portfolios.html">
I do think I need to scale down on the quality when exporting in Lightroom. I went for the highest and it seems to take a while to load. Also, when I exported them the slideshow size was larger, and I shrunk it down later, so that might have something to do with it (site is loading the big size then scaling it down to fit?).
Again, many, many thanks.
I'm having a similar issue and am wondering if this might work for me, however, I need to create 3 slideshows for different pages of my website. Would this be as simple as renaming the monoslideshow.swf and the respective xml file? Would I be able to place all of my images in a single folder and have the xml file for each slide show call specific images from the album. ie weddings.xml would call images 1-20 seniors.xml would call 20-30, etc...
Hello again,
I'm using Monoslideshow for something like 30+ slideshows on one website, and I use a single instance of monoslideshow.swf.
View source on <a href="http://www.horse-competence.de/galerie/aktuell_25.html">this page</a> and check <a href="http://">the related xml</a>, then you should understand it easily. Note that I use a new version of swfobject.js from Google Code.
Christoph
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