Design + Coding > SlideShowPro - Is it possible?
We're using it on http://visionism.squarespace.com/ (the site's not quite finished yet, but you can see SSP on the front page and gallery page.)
Jared
Also here, on the photo page: oshidapiano.com
jaredh
First off, thank you both very much for showing me that it could be done. Both of your sites look VERY professional and if you are the designers / developers you should be really proud.
Now, a few questions if you have the time.
1. How did you do it? Was there a tutorial to follow, is it easy to figure out...?
2. Are you using just slideshowpro or are did you buy the thumbgrid?
3. Did you spring for slideshowpro hosting and or the Director?
I'm just trying to get a grasp on what I should be going after to get the best possible results.
One more thing, if I purchase slideshowpro for flash, can I use it on as many sites as I want or is it like squarespace where it's one domain per account?
Thanks guys! You are a huge help!
Andrew Campbell
Hi Andrew, thanks for the compliment.
1) Those pages are sqsp html pages. I embedded the SSP swf file using swfobject. It's fairly straightforward, and SSP has a good wiki and user forum. I can give you more specifics if you need them.
2) I'm using SSP and thumbgrid.
3) I personally bought director and installed it on a different host. I think SSP hosting is a good way to go, though (no install or upgrade hassle)
Yes, you can use your exported swf files from SSP for flash on as many sites as you want.
Good luck!
jaredh
Thank you so much Jared, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. I am going to give SlideShowPro a try today and see what happens.
Ok, one more question :) you say that the exported swfs from SSP can be used any where, is the same true with Director? I have given it a brief overview and it looks as though you would be able to use it for as many projects as you want but I was just hoping you could re-affirm that for me. The only catch is you can only install it on one host right?
Again, thank you for all your help!
Andrew Campbell
Yes, you're right. You install director on one host only, but can manage multiple albums and slideshows from that one installation. You will need to set up a cross domain policy file to allow the domain where the swf is hosted at to access the data on your director host.
Slideshowpro is great.
jaredh
I have followed this threaad and instructions and can't get it to work. When you say, Jared, that you are using swfobject, I followed the instructions in another developer thread to use the
<div id="myFlashContent">
</div>
and it puts the flash file generated from SSP for Flash there, but the images to not load.
Using the SSP wiki for swfobject discusses the process of using only SSP for Flash and not SSP Director.
I placed the crossdomain file in both the ssp-directory, and my flash directory on the squarespace site.
Help? What am I missing?
Nils Davis
Can you post a link to the page?
jaredh
eastside.squarespace.com
Nils Davis
Andrew
I am using SlideShowPro and Squarespace successfully (though my site is not live yet...still in testing phase) and there is a thread on the SSP forums to which I contributed which might help you.
My set-up is as follows: I self-host SSP Director (at the time of this post, running version 1.4.0 build 3579) on one of my domains and use a slideshow I created in Adobe Lightroom (using SSP Lightroom v.1.4.9 and referencing the XML file path of a gallery on my SSP Director install) embedded on a Squarespace html page (not embedded in an individual journal post, for which SSP created a separate how-to).
And this is how I made it work:
1) I ensured the appropriate images I wanted to link to were in my SSP Director installation (separate domain from Squarespace) and ensured the Director installation was up-to-date and working correctly.
2) I created a web gallery in Adobe Lightroom using SSP Lightroom and uploaded the appropriate files (how-to by SSP is here) to the storage area of my Squarespace site (I placed the files in a folder I created called "SSP" and preserved the folder structure by zipping all files before uploading and instructing Squarespace to unarchive them upon upload).
3) I edited the code which I obtained from SSP's instructions here and inserted these into my desired Squarespace HTML page (using the "raw html" editing mode) as follows:
<div id="myFlashContent">
<!-- Insert non-Flash player code here -->
</div> <script language="javascript">
var flashvars = {
paramXMLPath: "/storage/ssp/param.xml",
initialURL: escape(document.location)
}
var params = {
base: ".",
bgcolor: "#000000",
allowfullscreen: "true"
}
var attributes = {}
swfobject.embedSWF("/storage/ssp/loader.swf",
"myFlashContent", "720", "480", "8.0.0", "/storage/ssp/expressInstall.swf",
flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
I hope this helps!
Raf
raf sanchez
I have done a ton of research today via google and on this site and have yet to see a successful inclusion of SlideShowPro on anyone's site except http://www.justinthornton.com
Every thread or message board post I have read never has a conclusion where someone has a finished product that's working.
After looking into SlideShowPro I think it would be PERFECT for something we are working on here but I don't want to recommend it if it's going to be impossible to get working properly. Can anyone here tell me if it's possible and point me in the right direction of how? Or at least let me know if it is indeed possible... The video slide show is specifically what we are looking at.
Thanks!