Simpleviewer gallery not showing up

I created a website in iWeb, which I uploaded through Cyberduck. I also created a Simpleviewer photo gallery through Lightroom 3. I'm having trouble hyperlinking to the gallery through iWeb. I hyperlink to a file, which I choose as the "index" file for the gallery (which is also uploaded into Cyberduck). But when I go to the site through Safari it says, "Safari requires Adobe Flash. If you have Flash installed, click to view gallery." I made sure Flash is installed and this message still shows up and when I click on the second option, Safari thinks for a split second and then nothing happens. I don't have any problems viewing other sites with Flash. Also, I don't have any problems viewing my SImpleviewer gallery locally. I mean when I open the "index" file locally it opens in Safari perfectly. The problem seems to be when it's hyperlinked through iWeb and uploaded through Cyberduck.


FYI - I had this all done and working perfect for the last couple of years until I bought a new computer and rebuilt what I already had made (didn't transfer over the files). If it helps, the site I'm referring to is www.sambarnhartphotography.com and I'm having problems with the "wedding photography" and "nonwedding photography" hyperlinks.


Thanks for any help.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Aug 27, 2011 1:38 AM

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Aug 27, 2011 2:12 AM in response to sammay

Your problem is not iWeb related. And there's nothing wrong with the link.


First rule : Keep your custom stuff OUTSIDE the folder with the sitename. And certainly DO NOT put it in the folder with the pagename => Home_files.


Simply put the simpleview folder, with everything in it, on the server and make it work.


THEN you create a link to that folder.

Aug 27, 2011 2:32 AM in response to Wyodor

Here's a simpleviewer slideshow. It uses exactly the same code as yours.


Made in one minute from iPhoto.


User uploaded file


The folder is called iPad and published to the server in a directory of my choice :


http://home.wyodor.net/cms/iPad/index.html


Nowhere is iWeb involved.


To display the slideshow in iWeb use the <iframe> HTML element in a HTML Snippet :


<iframe src="http://url.to.file.html" frameborder="0" width="500" height="500" scrolling="no" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>


You can do the same.


Aug 27, 2011 7:22 AM in response to Wyodor

I guess I'm not sure what you are saying. I want iWeb to be involved because I have information there. The site is more than just a gallery. So I want the site and within the site I want to be able to link to the gallery as an example of my photography. And I thought I did keep the custom stuff outside. I put the iWeb stuff (index and site) in the "public_html" folder and then I put the simpleviewer folder (with all it's content) into the same "public_html" folder. I appreciate your help, but can you be a little more clear with what I need to do or where I should post the question if this is not an iWeb issue. Thanks.

Aug 27, 2011 7:53 AM in response to sammay

Here's the URL to the SimpleViewer page :


http://www.sambarnhartphotography.com/site/Home_files/index_2.html


It's clearly visible where you put the file.


And again. iWeb is not involved. So you need not emphasize where you put the iWeb site.


And with custom stuff is meant NON-iWeb stuff. Anything you do not do with iWeb.


So keep your NON-iWeb stuff OUTSIDE the folder wirth the Sitename. Which is aptly named site.


And to explain it in simpler terms :

Put the SimpleViewer folder INSIDE the public_html folder and OUTSIDE the folder with the Sitename.


Here's a sample iWeb page with a SimpleViewer album with an alternative way to embed it :


http://home.wyodor.net/cms/Aptana/


And this is the SimpleViewer album:


http://home.wyodor.net/cms/iMacPV/


This is as simple as it can be explained.


You may have to learn and study.


PS. Why do you use Cyberduck instead of iWeb's built-in FTP? Life can be so easy.

Aug 27, 2011 11:02 AM in response to sammay

Simple viewer produces a folder of contents like this...


User uploaded file


Give the folder for each slideshow a unique name like SV1, SV2, etc.


Drag them into a folder - simpleviewer - and upload this to the root folder on the server.


The URL to launch slideshow 1 will be...


http://www.domain-name.com/simpleviewer/SV1/index.html


If you want to use the image link on the home page of your site to launch the slideshow in a new window, set this to the above URL so that you get something like this SLIDESHOW.


Otherwise you can create a new page of your website to show the slider and use the iframe code...


http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Banner-Slideshow/Simple-Viewer.html


You can link to this page from the default navigation and/or the image link.

Aug 27, 2011 11:07 AM in response to Wyodor

You mentioned making sure the gallery stuff is outside the "site" folder. Cyberduck has a "public.html" folder. In that I have the "index" and "site" that iWeb created. Also inside that "public.html" folder I put the 2 Simpleviewer gallery folders, "nonwedding_simpleviewer" and "wedding_simpleviewer." I did not put them in the "site" folder." I attached a screen shot of the Cyberduck folders. Does something need to get renamed or moved? In iWeb I hyperlinked to the "index" file of each gallery. Is the problem too many "index" pages?


User uploaded file


And to answer your question about Cyberduck. This was how my friend helped me set it up years ago to include the Simpeviewer galleries which I liked a lot better than iWeb's gallery pages. Plus with MobileMe going away, I thought I wouldn't be able to publish iWeb directly.

Aug 27, 2011 11:42 AM in response to Wyodor

I knew enough to know that I had to hyperlink to the galleries through iWeb. First I clicked hyperlink to "file" and named the index file of the gallery, which didn't work. Then I tried linking to "external page" but I didn't know enough to know what each gallery was named. I went into Cyberduck and tried copying the URL it had listed for the index of each gallery and that didn't work either. So in my mind I had tried to hyperlink to a file and to an external page and neither worked. Now that I look back, the URL had a few extra pieces in it. Of course, everything makes a lot more sense now that it works.

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