posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:32 AM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Creating photo slideshows
Normally if I need to put up a few photos on the web to share, say from a wedding or holiday I use the Windows XP Powertoy Html Slide Show Wizard. It works well, it generates the html and images, then you can just ftp the files up to your web hosting.
Other times I have a bit more creative flare and put together the pictures in a more "funky way", like I did for the Microsoft UK Community DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Day website recently.
But today I saw a cool photo slideshow using Flash that was built using a free tool called SimpleViewer from AirTight Interactive. Check out this example. It's quite similar to the slideshow on flickr.
Also worth a mention is using Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition for viewing photos at home; it's amazing how much more watchable photos are by just adding little pan and zoom effects. I should also mention Picasa which Google now owns which has some clever functionality too.