Viewing Slideshow Assets
Slideshow Assets
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Those of you who come to this forum regularly will probably have noticed me raving on about preparing images correctly before importing them into EverWeb. This is particularly important for images that form a slider. Sliders that generate the thumbnails from the full size image are quick, dirty and convenient but are rather inefficient. The T Slide widget was created to overcome this problem and provide the ability to place the thumbs horizontally or vertically in a position relative to the actual slider. With separate thumbnails, this can result in a quite a large number of images but, if they are arranged in a folder with alphanumeric file names, the whole task becomes a breeze. I created these instructions for one of the first people to use the widget but, of course, it never occurred to me to post them here! Arrange these images in a folder on the desktop (or anywhere else). Use one for thumbs and another for images to make it even easier. Give the image files names like - sl1.jpg, sl1t.jpg, sl2.jpg, sl2t.jpg and so on. Now, instead of dragging these images into the EverWeb Assets list and selecting them one by one, they can be dragged as a group onto the Assets list in the widget settings panel. In the case of the T Slider, drag the first widget onto the page and the widget settings will appear in the right hand column of EverWeb. Now select all the images in the MySlideshowImage Folder on the desktop - command A - and drag them onto this Assets list. NOTE that this is NOT the main EverWeb Assets list but the one in the widget settings panel! Now drag the thumbnail widget onto the page and repeat. If the prep work has been done correctly, all the slides and their corresponding thumbs will be in the chosen order. Any last minute adjustments can be made by rearranging the images/thumbs in the widget assets list. Now it’s just a case of highlighting each image and thumb in turn and entering the captions, alt text and hyperlinks as required. Using this method, sliders can be created a lot faster and the images and thumbs can be saved in a folder in the Finder so that they can be available for future updates and changes to the slider. Perhaps this could be the subject of an instructional video to help those who are new to EverWeb to create better slideshow faster? ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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