If you don't own a Mac, you can stop reading.
You can't use what I'm about to describe.
OK, now that all the PC folks are gone, us Mac lovers can chat a bit.
I found a great little trick today on the Realmac Software support pages. The trick was written for use in RapidWeaver, but it will work as a widget just about anywhere, including the sidebar here on ActiveRain. If you look at the sidebar on the right you're going to see a photo widget named "ActiveRain Photos." Does it look familiar? If you've ever embedded an iPhoto Web Gallery into an iWeb page it will. This is the Web Gallery widget they use as icons for the galleries you place.
The cool thing about iPhoto Web galleries is that when you add or delete a photo to them in iPhoto it adds or removes it from your gallery online when you tell it to. It's basically an RSS Feed. So, now I've got an ActiveRain Photos Widget that I can update without ever leaving iPhoto. I like that.
So, with special thanks to Gunter at Realmac Software, here is how you get it here on ActiveRain.
In iPhoto, create a new web gallery, name it and drag some photos into it. - Create a new, empty iWeb page.
- Click on Web-Widgets and select your web gallery.
- Publish.
- Go to iDisk > Web > Sites > Site > Blank_files.
- Open the resulting "widget_markup.html" files in a text editor
- Select and copy the <script>.....</script> section and paste it into a new document.
- Edit each place you see the Width="160" height="140" to width 215 and height 188. This occurs in four places.
- Copy the edited text.
- Go to your AcitveRain account and paste the code in My Settings > Blog Description (place the code in the order you want it to appear in the sidebar on the right)
- Update and go enjoy your new widget.
As you can see on the right, at 215px wide and 188 pixels high, the widget looks great in the AR sidebar. Move your mouse over the images and watch what happens. You can even set the web gallery up so you can email photos to it or allow others to upload photos.
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Here is what the code should look like before you embed.
Jeff Turner aka respres
Wutevaaaa
I'm still not buying a Mac
I read it anyway Jeff, I figure that my next purchase will be the Mac and the last one should have been had I followed our discussion. Not reading a post that Don't read this is like telling someone not to think of a Blue Horse. You know that beautiful white horse that has a blue tint on it. You can't not think about that beautiful blue horse even if I told you to STOP, thinking about it. So, One more lesson lesson I learned about my next title.
Many thanks for all your help and Steve was great to fix the code. I did the post we discussed on Viral Marketing so be sure to check it out. I hope it gets featured because then a lot more people will see it and you might get some new clients.
Okey dokey, Jeff. Now I have to wade through the massive mess I made with i-photo. I think it weighs 8 pounds or so....
Perhaps this will motivate me to clean it up. Am still learning the MAC :-P
Loren... :) You're a grown man, you get to make bad decisions if you choose.
William... i figured I'd save everyone time and let them know right up from that this was not going to apply to 90% of them.
Maureen... I didn't even turn my computers on yesterday. I posted this at 10:28 PM PST. AR's server is set to Central time. :) And, yes, I have used iWeb to create pages... it's very simple.
Aziz... yes, I made the switch the first day possible. The new features in iPhoto make it worth it, for me. And iWork 08 has just simplified my life another level. I am now completely done with Microsoft Office with the inclusion of Numbers. Numbers is truly unique in how it approaches the spreadsheet. It's not an Excel clone.
Roberta... How did you make a mess with iPhoto? My bet is that you don't have "View By Roll" turned on. That will clean it up pretty quickly. Also, a few "smart folders" will assist as well.
Ana... :)
Jeff,
I have a Mac, but that's about where my expertize ends. All this code and iWeb... I want to be like you guys, but at 12 am it's way to late for it now.
Jeff
I have been looking for help on my MAC and now I have found you. Thanks.
Susan... I'm here for you. :)
Ines... I skipped your comment. :)
So Jeff,
I'm not clear on it yet, .mac has never caught me as a good deal. Do I need to have a .mac account to use this, or can I host it someplace else? I am still behind on getting ilife8 also, but that looks very cool. I love 7
As always great job.
iWeb is one of the most amazingly (if thats a word) user-friendly computer applications on the market. To this day, I still cannot believe the volumes of Windows based computer systems still sell over Mac's. iWeb is just the beginning! Has anyone tried Pages from the iWork apps? Anyone in real estate who has constructed his/her own website and updates it themselves should be a Macintosh user.
Only Mac drawback in real estate -- Top Producer is not compatible...
Jeff,
Does this little widget tutorial above require iPhoto 8. Any way to do it with iLife '07?
Jeff - I haven't done this yet but I am going to give it a try.
Dawn, this kind of stuff is best done in a very interactive environment. My advice is for you to sign up for some of the free classes they offer at the Apple Store. The ones you will probably want are in the Workshops section. Here is a link, and they should offer these at each store.
http://www.apple.com/retail/workshops/
Just what I was looking for - thanks Jeff! Will probably have a few more questions for you tho .....
Hubba...
No response needed. I don't feel like playing in the rain but I do need my quota for the day.
Expect to see me on your blog 10 times :)
TLW...ROAR!