Using A Dreamweaver Generated Slideshow In Wordpress

One of our customers asked: can I use your Image Show Pro Dreamweaver extension to create a header slideshow in Wordpress? Good thing that I’m a big Wordpress fan and I could quickly drop a slideshow on one of my blogs and see what’s needed to make it work. If you want to have cool flash slideshows with your Wordpress blog or website and you do not have the skills to implement jquery animations or simple you are not a big fan with the coding part, this tutorial will show you how to generate a slideshow in Dreamweaver with Image Show Pro Dreamweaver extension and make it work in a typical Wordpress installation.

It’s easier than you think if you don’t use URL rewrite permalinks.

• copy the slideshow “/includes” files from the Dreamweaver location to the Wordpress folder (Image Show Pro creates a folder called “includes” in the Dreamweaver site);
• you will need to manually edit the header.php file (location /wp-content/themes/[your template name]/header.php) and add the 3 JavaScript include files to the head section (please copy the ones from Dreamweaver, below are just samples).

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”/includes/ImageShowPro/flash_detect_min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”/includes/ImageShowPro/xtdProBanner1.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”/includes/ImageShowPro/xtdProBannerLayout.js”></script>

• edit the file where you want the slideshow to appear and add the rendering script (for example if you want to replace the typical Wordpress theme with the slideshow, edit the header.php file and add the rendering script there (again, below it’s just a sample): (more…)

Creative Flash Scroller Tutorial – How to build a dynamic news nugget

In this tutorial we will create a dynamic news nugget that reads content from an xml file. It’s very useful when you want to display scrolling news content in a sidebar nugget. In order to create this you’ll need the Creative Flash Scroller AS3 – a Flash component that makes scrolling very easy. Here is how the result should look like:

Requirements

• Flash CS3 or CS4
• Creative Flash Scroller AS3 (you can download a free trial)

To make it work, you just need a bit of AS3 code. Here is the tutorial to guide you through.

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