Ever wanted to have a nifty flash gallery for all your photos? With the Flash Album Generator you can do that quickly and easy! This extension will resize your photos with Fireworks, create thumbnails and put them in an amazing Flash Album. The album is generated from Dreamweaver within a few clicks! All your photo’s will be displayed online instantly in a cool Flash Photo Viewer that is fully customizable to your site design.
This manual explains the features and how to use the Flash Album Generator extension.
Q: I changed a parameter but the change is not visible at my live site.
A: Make sure you’ve uploaded your gallery XML file to your server and that you’ve deleted your browser cache.
Here is a link that shows you how to do this for internet explorer 6.
Here is a link that shows you how to do this for other browsers.
Q: My photo album says it is missing a file
A: You need to upload the viewer.swf and XML file and the folder that you’ve specified for your photo’s to your server
Q: My selected image is depicted to small
A: Lower the number of thumbnail rows and columns to be displayed
Q: When I click on my selected picture (the full size picture), Dreamweaver scrolls down
A: This is caused by the Dreamweaver interface, please select the Show design view option in Dreamweaver.
Q: Some of the items such as my album name, are not visible
A: The album has to many items to display within the specified album width and height. Adjust the dimensions of your photo album and lower the number of thumbnail rows and columns to be displayed.
Q: I want to display a background image
A: Set the wmode parameter in the Flash movie to transparent, on this page there is an explanation on how to do it. Other values for the wmode parameter are explained here.
Q: Can I reduce the spacing above and below the main image?
A: Flash Album Generator is designed to show both tall and wide images, therefore the image area is square. If you are showing only wide images, this will result in blank space above and below the image. Reduce your Stage Padding or set it to 0.
Q: My photo’s overlap the title of my album
A: Reduce your Stage Padding or set it to 0.
Q: My album doesn’t display my photos
A: Please make sure that the page of your Flash Album is saved in the site that is defined in Dreamweaver to prevent path problems. You can also change the path to your images in the XML file.
Q: Where can I find more information on the Flash Album Generator?
A: You can find more information on the Flash Album Generator at this page.
Q: Can I change the size of the thumbnails?
A: The thumbnails have a fixed size in the Flash viewer so they cannot be changed.
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