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Hi Everyone,

I started to make my website over the past few days with VSD (which is great, btw!). I purchased Coffee Cup Photo Gallery to create an online slideshow, but to be honest am very disappointed at the lack of controls with the program.

What I'd like to do is create a photo slideshow like the one on this home page:
http://www.octanerender.com/

See how this slowly pans, zooms, and fades into different photos -- this is the look that I want to achive, however I cannot do this in Photo Gallery.

Therefore, I've looked into other methods, like using Google's Picassa (but the problem here is that I have to choose from predefinined sizes, which doesn't work for me either). I've also looked at Coffee Cup's web video player (my issue with that is the skin, I don't want one) and Firestarter, but I'm not getting exactly what I want out of it either.

O.k., this was long winded, sorry for that! What I'd like is to embed a slideshow onto my wepage that automatically begins playing when someone opens the website’s home page. I need to be able to control the length and width of the slideshow as well as be able to pan and zoom within the images. Pretty much exactly like the home page of the website link above. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this? Is there a coffee cup tool to do this, or an another third party tool? If third party tool how do I embed it into my home page within VSD?

Thanks!
Ryan
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I am acutally new to Coffee Cup but I think what you are looking for would be the CoffeeCup Firestarter program. (at least thats what I would attempt to use ;))

I am interested too in what can be used to create those effects as well. I am probably wrong - but... I will humbly wait on the answer too
User 504961 Photo


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ok... so I didnt see the part where you already attempted to use Firestarter . I am gonna stay in my lane and wait for the correct answer :cool:
User 271657 Photo


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That site is using this:

http://slideshowpro.net/

:)
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User 2132172 Photo


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Awesome! Thank you so much!!!!!

Paintbrush, you have been such a huge help to me so far, thank you so much for your answers! I corrected the text problems I was having with your suggestions yesterday btw, the text looks perfect.

Now, if I can only stop myself from changing the color scheme and layout on my website again and again and make up my mind I'll be in good shape. :)

Ryan
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That's the problem with VSD - once you get it figured out, it's just too easy to keep trying out new things! :lol:
I'm glad you got your text looking good. And you're very welcome :)
Be sure and post a link to your site when it's ready (there's a thread near the top of this forum for that and another at the top of the website development forum).
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User 2132172 Photo


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I will definitely post a link for feedback from everyone when it's done!

Ryan

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