Sorry about this, I am a total novice to this program and need help.
I am the webmaster for www.sandownlifeboat.com (a charity) and have seen Mono Slideshow used on another Lifeboat website here in the UK.
Wanting to take our website forward with the slideshow side of things, I looked at what program they had used, paid for mono Slideshow and downloaded it.
Just to get a folder with one folder called 'html', and three files - 'monoslideshow_license' 'monoslideshow_changelog' 'monoslideshow_manual'.
I was shocked and even more shocked when I found that it is not as easy as it is made out to be!!!!
I have tried to get my head around it, but cant get anything to work, even the demo download file!
Please tell me that this is not just it and that there is not easy to follow control panel that helps with the code etc?
Not very clear on the website at all about how not straight forward it is!
When I first started learning how to control Monoslideshow, I downloaded a variety of different demo xml files. This helped explain the settings that I was most interested in. I would suggest trying a variety of different demo settings, downloading those xml files, then try replicating them with a handful of your own images and thumbnails.
One thing to note about the demo xml files is that default settings are not included (logical since they are defaults). So if you're really interested in a specific setting, change it in the demo, then download the xml to inspect it.
Another thing to try is to configure the demo to as close to your desired presentation as possible. Then you can focus on where your images and thumbs are on your server and how you plan to organize their presentation.
A really important aspect is making sure your path settings in your album and img tags are proper. If not, images and/or thumbs won't appear.
The manual contains really good information about each setting and the essential method of calling monoslideshow.
I have built a database-driven Ajax/PHP image presentation and management architecture which controls monoslideshow. This was an immense amount of work and I made the decision to include monoslideshow over many alternatives. I'm quite satisfied with that choice. You can see the first public version of this architecture at www.andyryan.com. That site is currently serving over 10,000 images (many are in private client areas) with many, many more to come.