anyone use simpleviewer?

[SezzySue]

Alright I have been looknig at many website trying to improve myown. I was given this website and I tried to download it but its not working for me. Maybe I am just not getting it but has anyone else used it or know of another place to get a similar program? Thanks for the help.

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

[pup]

i have used it.... in conjunction with Picasa

[vwpilot]

I have it integrated into my page. You can see it here, http://www.motorsportsimaging.com/portfolio/index2.html

Its a pretty decent basic flash gallery. You can customize it to fit your needs as well pretty easily.

[SezzySue]

so how do i get the program to customize?

[simplephoto]

Check this out http://www.redsplash.de/projects/simplevieweradmin/

Is not an "official" admin tool but it works fine

[DarrenL]

A very similar post was made about this a few days back. Have a look http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=300121

Darren

[vwpilot]

so how do i get the program to customize?

Depends on what you are looking to do. Many people will embed the SV gallery into another html page on their site so it looks like its part of the site. You can customize the colors of the background and text in the code of the SV pages. You need to know a bit about html in order to do it. Its easy, but you have to know the basics.

That other link is interesting though, I've never tried it, maybe it will make it easier than having to change actual code.

[supercalla]

I use it for my galleries. I wanted to build multiple galleries within one page so I bought the pro package. I was the best $49 dollars I have spent. check out lovebugportraits.com for a sneek peek.

[SezzySue]

can I see a link to your galleries you made with it?

[supercalla]

Click on the portfolios link at the top. Need to have lastest flash plugin installed.
www.lovebugportraits.com

[tony fanning]

I use SV and it is a joy to use- it really is simple!

Supercalla- how did you get your thumbnails so small? I`ve tried but cannot find a way of doing it!

[supercalla]

did you buy simpleviewer pro? There are all kinds of customizations you can make if you bought pro.

[supercalla]

tony fanning, oh by the way, nice style. I would push the simpleviewer app up, I needed to scroll down to see the full pic.

[supercalla]

options.as file:

//Thumbnails
static var thumbnailWidth:Number = 30; //pixels
static var thumbnailHeight:Number = 30; //pixels
then republish to get a new viewer.swf file.

[Nursedad]

I tried it but decided against flash after a while. I tried out quite a few ones and I found sv to be among the best free ones. There's also a similar one called php slideshow which is good.

What are some of the other (not free) applications out there that have the same type of functionality?

Thanks!

[Galaxy99]

Click on the portfolios link at the top. Need to have lastest flash plugin installed.
www.lovebugportraits.com (http://www.lovebugportraits.com)
I love your site!!!:) Did you make it yourself or you purchased a flash templates then modified it?

[supercalla]

I made it myself. I found elements/concepts that I liked from several different sites and made them my own. The site is pretty basic actionscript, nothing fancy. Most of the elements that I used can be found in various tutorials on the web.
Thanks for the feedback.

[wilzdezign]

How did you load the SV inside another Flash object? I created a simple frame, then tried loading the viewer.swf along with trace of the output:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc", 1);
loadMovie("viewer.swf", "container_mc");
trace(container_mc);

But all I get is:

_level0.container_mc
Loaded XML: true

.. but the SV gallery does not show inside the Flash file. Is there any actionscript needed to return to the viewer.swf once the XML is loaded to start?

[supercalla]

Simpleviewer is really jacked sometimes. you have to make sure your site is set up just like the examples. I would have to see your FLA to better understand what is going on.

[supercalla]

BTW, it is cool that you did the Everett site. My friend used to work there. I am also orginally from the seattle area.

[wilzdezign]

BTW, it is cool that you did the Everett site. My friend used to work there. I am also orginally from the seattle area.

Well as for now, I have supported the EverettCC site and developed their Intranet. However, check out the EverettCC site at the middle of June. I have worked to revamp the site some with some of our graphics people.

[Galaxy99]

I made it myself. I found elements/concepts that I liked from several different sites and made them my own. The site is pretty basic actionscript, nothing fancy. Most of the elements that I used can be found in various tutorials on the web.
Thanks for the feedback. I love to pay you to make a site similar like yours. I suck big time on either html, javascripts or flash even I have dreamweaver, flash software... I already give up... Let me know if it is possible. I will PM you at same time.

[andrewc]

I've played with simpleviewer (plus his others - postcardviewer and autoviewer) and simplevieweradmin. The concept is good but it does assume a broadband connection as it proceeds to load all the images, whether you want to view them or not. This could push your website traffic over its limit. Plus its only viable for about 50 images per gallery.

I'm trying Simplephotos which isn't flash based. Its php based and everything else is done in CSS or HTML, so should be fairly easy to customise or embed into your own page. Adding galleries is as simple as dumping a load of pictures onto your webserver using FTP and it will automatically find them.

currently testing at www.norwichphoto.co.uk/portfolio

download from here http://ppleyard.org.uk/software.php

Even works on my PDA over wifi.


Simpleviewer has its place, especially for small galleries.

[mcphotography]

i use porta - http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/ - it creates a simpleview album for you - very very easy and fast and it can also create an html gallery as an alternative - my galleries - www.mcphotography.biz - were all done using porta

[LoganCL]

I use it with my site...

www.l-s-cphotography.com

Anyways problem is, i have a mac and i use iphoto export in conjunction with simpleviewer so simpleviewer works and i can use it on my site. Problem though is that when i use iphoto export it messes my images on my simpleviewer, how can i have it so it uses the original image size? please help so i can update my site!

[ranestorm]

i really like simpleviewer

www.brandianndesigns.com

[sapearl]

I just found this thread after doing a quick search - interesting comments, thanks all.

For those of you who have been using your chosen package for a couple of years now what are your current thoughts regarding functionality, ease of use, support and flexibility? Have you switched to other apps, or have you upgraded the current s/w? - Stu