Embed slideshow? Is there any way?

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Embed slideshow? Is there any way?

I would love to 'wrap' Aperture's slideshow so it stays within my website, instead of having to link 'out' to it.

Any ideas?

3.2GHz 8-Core MacPro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Aug 3, 2009 8:07 AM

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Answer 1

rwboyer

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Aug 3, 2009 8:30 AM in response to Ed State

Are you talking about mobile me or literally Aperture slide shows?

Anyway you can't right now. Typically I use slide show software to do this kind of thing for web distribution, there is a flash slide show plugin for Aperture, I also have done some really cool stuff with iMovie (stills + audio) and Final Cut to generate web content.

RB

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Ed State Author

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Aug 3, 2009 8:36 AM in response to rwboyer

Darn.

I'm desperately trying to figure out a cross-browser, non-flash simple SLIDESHOW for a site I'm doing. It's for a medical clinic, and the patients are fairly old, with a higher-than-normal rate of IE6 (ugh!).

Everything I've tried breaks on at least ONE browser. But I think I'm going to stick w/ the CSS one I created, and just give it a subtitle that it "doesn't work in IE6.. upgrade your browser!!!) LOL.

PS, the reason I was wondering about Aperture having a plug in is because the little GoogleMaps API works great. But I can't find anything that 'plugs in' like that, and is super SIMPLE.

Ugh.

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Answer 3

Aug 3, 2009 11:00 AM in response to Ed State

Ed,

I primarily use SmugMug, rather than MobileMe galleries these days, and one important reason is that their slideshow works with older browsers as well as newer ones. I am familiar with the IE6 limitation with MobileMe. I will tell you that the Web Page function to MobileMe versus the gallery album worked with IE6 the last time I tested. Photos don't get as large, but you can have the Caption display with the photo.

Ernie

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Ed State Author

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Aug 3, 2009 12:31 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

I'm not even familiar w/ the "Web Page Function" in MobileMe... ??

How would one go about that?

🙂

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Aug 3, 2009 12:54 PM in response to Ed State

Ed,

This is something that is done in Aperture -- it just gets published to MobileMe. See:

http://www.apple.com/aperture/tutorials/#publishoutput-webpage

The interface for this form of album is different -- at least the last time I could test with someone using IE6 -- and is perhaps more compatible.

Ernie

Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

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Ed State Author

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Aug 3, 2009 5:53 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

Apologies. That's what I had already made in Aperture.

It's certainly functional, and simple (which is great), but hopefully a future release of either Aperture or iPhoto will provide a simple Javascript plugin...

/holding my breath 😉

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Answer 7

Aug 3, 2009 6:19 PM in response to Ed State

My apologies -- I thought you had gone the route of a new Album to produce a gallery on MobileMe. That one, which gives the largest image during a slideshow and allows easy downloading is the one proved most problematic in my experience.

Ernie

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Answer 8

Aug 19, 2009 11:59 AM in response to Ed State

Ed State wrote:
Apologies. That's what I had already made in Aperture.

It's certainly functional, and simple (which is great), but hopefully a future release of either Aperture or iPhoto will provide a simple Javascript plugin...

/holding my breath 😉

I suspect that Aperture 3.0 will have many more web features built-in, especially those that work with MME.

What you're looking for is what is available in iPhoto, so we know it is possible.

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