Trouble with slideshow.

Question

First of all thanks to all of you who read this forum and
take time to help those of us that are having trouble.
I built a slide show with the command menu. I got the three
files, the "index.html","player_blsc.swf", and the "scripts"
folder. I saved all of these into a sub folder for the page I am
building.
I then imported this slideshow into dreamweaver with the
import command. That all went fine.
When I preview the page in my browser, I get the slideshow,
but no images. I get the same thing if I "play" the filein
dreamweaver.
I am out of idea and seariously need som help! Here is my
file structure in dreamweaver.
sitename (root)
|
- page 1
|
- image albums (contains the pictures for this page)
- page images (contains sliced images form fireworks to
build the page)
- slideshow files (contains all of the files for the
slideshow I am trying to build)
- pagename.html (actual html page)
|
- page2
|

Answer 1

I fixed it! I am a newbie here so you will have to forgive my
inexperience.
For those of you that might run into this same problem here
is the answer.
All of the files for your slide show need to be in the same
folder with the html file that is actually your page.
Example;
Below is a file structure for a "website"
Lets say you want to put a slide slow on the "photos" page.
If you are using fireworks slide show creator, it will
generate 3 files and a number of folders.
The folders will be the folders that contain the images it
will display on the slide show.
It will also make a new folder called "scripts"
Okay, so lets say your slide show will have two "albums". In
one album there are pictures of boats and the other album there are
pictures of sunsets. So, in fireworks you will name the the albums
"boats" and "sunsets". Fire works will create the folders called
"boats" and "sunsets". Along with the other files.
So here are the files you will end up with,
slideshow.xml (file)
index.html (file)
show_black.swf (this is the flash file that you will install)
boats (folder)
sunsets (folder)
So, however many folders you end up with is determined by how
many albums you create. If you have 3 albums, you will have 4 new
folders (don't forget about the scripts folder)
Okay, hopefully you got all of that! And now we can move on.
Below is a web page file structure. Where you place these
files and folders is very important! You must place them on the
same "level" as you page, they can't be in a subfolder on that
page. Here is an example,
Mywebpage (folder containing your site, or your root folder.)
|
home page (your index page)
......page images (folder)
......home.html
|
photos
.....page images (folder)
.....photos.html
|
contact
....page images (folder)
....contact.html
Lets say you want to put this slideshow on the page "photos".
But you want ot build a page and have the slideshow display as part
of your page and not just as a standalone with nothing else on it.
Here is how I did it the first time and it did not work. I will use
the example from above.
Mywebpage (folder containing your site, or your root folder.)
|
home page (your index page)
......page images (folder)
......home.html
|
photos
....page images (folder)
....photos.html
....slide show files (folder)
...........show_black.swf
...........index.html
...........slideshow.xml
...........boats (folder)
...........sunsets (folder)
contact
....page images (folder)
....contact.html
As you can see the slideshow files are located in a subfolder
called slideshow files. Thay are not in the same folder as the
photo.html files. This causes the slide show not to work because it
is looking in the wrong folder for the files.
Now, put the files like the example below to make your slide
show work.
Mywebpage (folder containing your site, or your root folder.)
|
home page (your index page)
......page images (folder)
......home.html
|
photos
....page images (folder)
....photos.html
....show_black.swf
....index.html
....slideshow.xml
....boats (folder)
....sunsets (folder)
contact
....page images (folder)
....contact.html
As you can see the slideshow files are no longer in the sub
folder. They are in the same folder as the pages html file. I know
it is not as oganized looking but this is the only way I found to
make the slideshow appear inside another page. Good luck with your
pages. If you need more help post here or email me and I will see
if I can help.