Coming Soon: Embed Your Slideshows
Posted 10 June 2008 @ 3pm in News, Tips and tricks
by Erik Dungan
This isn’t exposed in the NextProof control panel yet, but I’ll post instructions on it soon. If you have a NextProof account, you already know that your featured images can play as a slideshow when a visitor views a gallery for the first time.
What you didn’t know is that you can also embed a slideshow of a gallery’s featured images in any external HTML page. This means you can place slideshows on your blog or any HTML page on your website.
Here’s the good parts:
- Place anywhere just by pasting some code
- Links directly to the proofing gallery
- No image limit (plays all your featured images)
- If your gallery is watermarked, so are your slideshow images (keeps ‘em safe)
- Play an audio track from your website (like your /extra folder on your BIG Folio website)
- It has a nice little title at the top
Here’s the not-so-good parts (because I know you’re gonna ask)
- There are no timing or transition controls (c’mon, I did this in 4 hours)
- It’s 600×600 so it may not fit smaller blog layouts (a “widget” version has been tossed around)
- If your gallery is watermarked, so are your slideshow images (you might not like that look)
- There are no color controls (but that wouldn’t be too hard)
- The audio track must be hosted elsewhere (we don’t want NextProof to host music)
So, here’s what it looks like:
Let me know what you think. By the way, the good images in this slideshow are Jose Villa’s … the crappy ones are mine :)
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