Hi Shane,
As I promised a week ago, I'll explain how to embed WowSlider slideshows inside VSD the easy way, with an Iframe. What do we need for this?
- VSD of course
- WowSlider (or whatever slideshow maker, including Coffeecup products; in general any software producing HTML files)
- FTP software. And I presume you know how to use it, how to connect to your webspace and how to upload files to your webspace outside of VSD. Coffeecup Direct FTP -the free or paid version- is perfect for this task. Or you could do this with WowSlider itself....
First some explanation about an Iframe. You might describe it as a window, a hole inside your own website, showing another website, or better said: anything that can be shown using a browser. An Iframe can be added to VSD by means of the HTML tool. It's main parameters are the width and height of the Iframe window, if the window has a border or not and if you can scroll its content or not.
1. Make your wowslider show. Store this somewhere on your system. Write down its pixel widht and height.
2. Open your FTP software and connect to your webspace. Make a new folder there and upload all files produced by Wowslider to that folder (the data and engine folders and the index.html file -or whatever you might have called it-).
3. Surf to this address and see if your slideshow functions as you intended (i.e. surf to
http://www.yourwebspace.com/wowsliderpath/index.html). Copy this path with CTRL+C now or later, within step 4.
4. Open VSD, open your website design and go to the page where you want to show your slideshow. Make a HTML box there, place it somewhere on the page, the pixel width and height being the same of the WowSlider slideshow. Click on it so you can edit its content. Now insert this HTML code:
<IFRAME SRC="http://www.yourwebspace.com/wowsliderpath/index.html"
WIDTH="yourwidth"
HEIGHT="yourheight"
FRAMEBORDER="NO"
SCROLLING="NO">
</IFRAME>
Use frameborder="yes" if you want a border. Use scrolling="yes" if you want scrollbars.
Now save your design and then preview your site with VSD. Your slideshow should be there!
You can use an Iframe for anything, like showing a blog inside VSD. Use your imagination..
Success, John
John van Hulst