Anyone want to develop a block?
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Hi all,
I found a great little flshow carousel (http://www.flshow.net) which I have currently implemented by creating it as a standard webpage and am importing it into Concrete by using an iframe block, which works fairly well. It would be much better as a native Concrete block however.
(to see it in action visitwww.www.ragsriches.co.uk/concrete/meet-the-characters)....
The developer seems happy to have it developed or incorporated and has the following disclaimer:-
"You can use all the slideshows provided on this site in your personal web pages for free. If you like them please support flShow with a donation (or at least invite me a pizza).
If you use any of these slideshows for commercial purposes, you have to support flShow with a donation proportional to the "added value" that the slideshow brings to your pages.
Everything is provided as is; I take no responsibility for anything deriving from the use of these slideshows. Do not use my slideshows with pornography, blasphemy, or other offending material!"
Developing a block is way beyond me, but if anyone more capable were to develop it I'd happily pay $15 or so for it, and it seems like the developer is happy as long as he gets a cut.
Iain
I found a great little flshow carousel (http://www.flshow.net) which I have currently implemented by creating it as a standard webpage and am importing it into Concrete by using an iframe block, which works fairly well. It would be much better as a native Concrete block however.
(to see it in action visitwww.www.ragsriches.co.uk/concrete/meet-the-characters)....
The developer seems happy to have it developed or incorporated and has the following disclaimer:-
"You can use all the slideshows provided on this site in your personal web pages for free. If you like them please support flShow with a donation (or at least invite me a pizza).
If you use any of these slideshows for commercial purposes, you have to support flShow with a donation proportional to the "added value" that the slideshow brings to your pages.
Everything is provided as is; I take no responsibility for anything deriving from the use of these slideshows. Do not use my slideshows with pornography, blasphemy, or other offending material!"
Developing a block is way beyond me, but if anyone more capable were to develop it I'd happily pay $15 or so for it, and it seems like the developer is happy as long as he gets a cut.
Iain
Hi,
A bit of both. I was mostly offering it up as a suggestion, but I would certainly take advantage of it if it were implemented, as it would give the site owner much more control, and the ability to upload his own animations rather than waiting for me to do them.
It's a rotating carousel in flash which can take both images and flash animations. I am using it with interactive flash animations and it works very well. It's kind of an alternative slide show!
If you think your method would work, I'm up for having a go, if you can supply those extra details. At present it's an SWF that is pulled into an HTML webpage. the SWF references an xml file for all settings and the list of files.
Iain
A bit of both. I was mostly offering it up as a suggestion, but I would certainly take advantage of it if it were implemented, as it would give the site owner much more control, and the ability to upload his own animations rather than waiting for me to do them.
It's a rotating carousel in flash which can take both images and flash animations. I am using it with interactive flash animations and it works very well. It's kind of an alternative slide show!
If you think your method would work, I'm up for having a go, if you can supply those extra details. At present it's an SWF that is pulled into an HTML webpage. the SWF references an xml file for all settings and the list of files.
Iain
Actually, the technique I was referring to just outputs image tags and javascript onto a page type template -- so I'm not sure how it would work with Flash. In that case a block probably would be best (or you could use the super-cool Flash Embed addon to configure an XML file for this purpose, although it costs $15):
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/flash-embed/...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/flash-embed/...
If you need a slideshow for your own site but don't want to build a block for it (or don't know how), I've found a good halfway solution is to hard-code the slideshow into a page type template, and then pull in all of the images from one file set. The user edits the slideshow images by putting files into the designated file set via the File Manager in the dashboard. It's not perfect, because it can't be placed anywhere on a site (you basically need to create a page type specifically for it, but if it's the home page then usually you have one of those anyway). But it's way easier than building it out as a block.
If you're interested in how to do this, let me know and I'll post some details.