Embedding a Slideshow onto another website?

sherijohnson · December 2, 2008

I was reading that it says you can embed a slideshow onto another website. How is this done?

jfriend · December 2, 2008

sherijohnson wrote:

I was reading that it says you can embed a slideshow onto another website. How is this done?

sherijohnson · December 2, 2008

will this work on any webpage? I am not talking about the smugmug site.

sherijohnson · December 2, 2008

You would think that especially for Pro users, they would make this easier, like a copy and paste for any certain gallery.

denisegoldberg · December 2, 2008

sherijohnson wrote:

You would think that especially for Pro users, they would make this easier, like a copy and paste for any certain gallery.

It is pretty much a copy and paste. All you need to change is the album id and key.

And yes, you can use the slideshow outside of your smug site. If you'd like to see an example, I have a "play" blog in addition to the one I write in. I use it to check if something works, and to stash examples that people might want to copy. I have a slideshow in that blog both as a blog entry and as a sidebar entry.

My play blog is at http://denisegoldbergplays.blogspot.com.

--- Denise

sherijohnson · December 2, 2008

what I meant is that they could make it easier on us in any given gallery to provide to us the code to embed the slideshow. I only said that because they are advertising on the site that you can embed the slideshows onto web pages, but then in order to do it, you have to KNOW HOW. of course it would be my preference if they did do this that it is only available to the owner of the gallery.

sure I am a web designer, but not everyone else could just do this so easily.

sherijohnson · December 2, 2008

oh and I did get it to work, however it won't work in firefox or ie at all.

zsportsmedia · January 16, 2009

sherijohnson wrote:

oh and I did get it to work, however it won't work in firefox or ie at all.

Sheri - I've been looking for the same solution. I'd say if it does not work in firefox or ie it doesn't really work :-)

I tried it too and could not get it to work... help!

Montec · February 20, 2009

zsportsmedia wrote:

Sheri - I've been looking for the same solution. I'd say if it does not work in firefox or ie it doesn't really work :-)

I tried it too and could not get it to work... help!

A bit late to this but I just tried this from the instructions on this page and it works great in both IE and FF.

See it in action here

jschoenr · April 1, 2009

Can someone tell me how to get the randomStart parameter to work? I've put it in every place where I see parameters in the code sample, but my slideshow always starts on the first picture.. Here's my code:

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]<pre><object width="800" align="middle"  height="800">
<param name="movie" value="[URL="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl"]http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl[/URL]">
<param  name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="bgcolor"  value="000000">
<param name="allowNetworking"  value="all">
<param name="allowScriptAccess"  value="always">
<param name="randomStart" value="true">
<embed  src="[URL="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20"]http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20[/URL]"  wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" randomstart="true" width="800"  height="800" ></embed></object>
</pre>[/SIZE][/FONT]

jfriend · April 2, 2009

jschoenr wrote:

Can someone tell me how to get the randomStart parameter to work? I've put it in every place where I see parameters in the code sample, but my slideshow always starts on the first picture.. Here's my code:

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]<pre><object width="800" align="middle"  height="800">
<param name="movie" value="[URL="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl"]http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl[/URL]">
<param  name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="bgcolor"  value="000000">
<param name="allowNetworking"  value="all">
<param name="allowScriptAccess"  value="always">
<param name="randomStart" value="true">
<embed  src="[URL="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20"]http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20[/URL]"  wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" randomstart="true" width="800"  height="800" ></embed></object>
</pre>[/SIZE][/FONT]

You haven't put it the one place that it needs to go which is in this URL:

http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20

like this:

http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;[COLOR=red]randomStart=true&amp;[/COLOR]AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20

jschoenr · April 2, 2009

Thanks for the quick reply. That worked! Now for the next question.. I published this on a blog site and there is a huge space above the slideshow. Is there any way to get rid of it?

Here is the link to the blog post:

http://schoenrockphoto.blogspot.com/

jfriend · April 2, 2009

jschoenr wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply. That worked! Now for the next question.. I published this on a blog site and there is a huge space above the slideshow. Is there any way to get rid of it?

Here is the link to the blog post:

http://schoenrockphoto.blogspot.com/

Here's the HTML that is actually in your page:

<br /><br /><pre><object width="400" align="middle" height="400"><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl"><br /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><br /><param name="bgcolor" value="000000"><br /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"><br /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2007090601.swf?AlbumID=7612394&amp;randomStart=true&amp;AlbumKey=icXT4&amp;transparent=true&amp;crossFadeSpeed=500&amp;clickUrl=http://photos#46;myschoenrock#46;com/mapl%20" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" width="400" height="400" ></embed></object><br /></pre>

Can you remove the <pre> and </pre> tags and remove all the <br /> tags?

straehle · May 30, 2009

I have used this same code to add a slideshow to my Rotary Club website. It seems to work fine except that in the case of long captions, the first and last letters are chopped off. I tried to ask that question in the Wiki thread, but apparently one has to register separately for that and the registration link tells you that you have to contact an administrator.
Does anyone here know how to fix the captions problem. The slideshow is at http://www.rotaryclubsbnorth.org/50th.html
Thank you in advance
Terry

Embedding a Slideshow onto another website?

Comments