come on - it's not that bad is it? ;)

Did you check here: http://www.simpleviewer.net/simpleviewe … /embedded/ ?

I've followed the procedure and created a new page http://www.racing-images.co.uk/homepage.asp. I'm obviously missing something but I still can't see what I'm doing wrong - any help would be appreciated  :|

I copied and pasted the contents of my gallery folder, called best_sellers,  into the root folder of my website - then created the new page and copied the html script in there. I then uploaded this to the server.

If I add the script in the head section it just appears above the logo at the very top of the page. I want it embedded within the page.
I've scrapped the original gallery and created another one from scratch and added all its contents to my root folder. Can you just tell me what I have to amend in the script to point it to the new gallery and how I can get the gallery to appear on the page itself?

It says :-

Copy and paste this code block where you want SimpleViewer to appear:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">SimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player.
<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/">Get Flash.</a></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new SWFObject("viewer.swf", "viewer", "800", "600", "8", "#181818");
fo.write("flashcontent");   
</script>

Are you now saying I don't copy and paste this whole block onto the homepage.asp?

I realise you're still working on your gallery but I've noticed that you have a standalone gallery in .../best_sellers/ which would work fine if you made a change to your .../best_sellers/gallery.xml file.
Change:

thumbPath="best_sellers/thumbnails/" imagePath="best_sellers/images/"" imagePath=""

... to

thumbPath="thumbnails/" imagePath="images/"

... ie. remove the extra " and the empty imagePath reference and rename the thumbPath and imagePath so that the paths are relative to the HTML file, in this case http://www.racing-images.co.uk/best_sellers/index.html
Make the change, click on the link above and your best_sellers gallery should work.  It won't be integrated into your homepage yet but at least you'll have a working gallery.  It's a start!

In http://www.racing-images.co.uk/homepage.asp change:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

.. to:

<script type="text/javascript" src="sandown/swfobject.js"></script>

Your embed script should be:

<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new SWFObject("sandown/viewer.swf", "viewer", "800", "600", "8", "#181818");
fo.addVariable("xmlDataPath", "sandown/gallery.xml");
fo.write("flashcontent");    
</script>

The paths in http://www.racing-images.co.uk/sandown/gallery.xml should be:

thumbPath="sandown/thumbnails/" imagePath="sandown/images"

Edit:
An alternative solution, being that you already have a working gallery, would be to load the gallery into an iframe.
For this, you could remove:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

.. from http://www.racing-images.co.uk/homepage.asp and replace:

<div id="flashcontent">SimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player. 
<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/">Get Flash.</a></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new SWFObject("sandown/viewer.swf", "viewer", "800", "600", "8", "#181818");
fo.write("flashcontent");    
</script>

... with:

<iframe src="sandown/index.html" frameborder="0" width="800" height="600"></iframe>

... and leave the paths in http://www.racing-images.co.uk/sandown/gallery.xml alone.

Last edited by Steven @ SimpleViewer (2009-12-13 12:08:02)

You've removed:

<div id="flashcontent">SimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player. 
<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/">Get Flash.</a></div>

Reinstate it just above:

<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new SWFObject("sandown/viewer.swf", "viewer", "800", "600", "8", "#181818");
fo.addVariable("xmlDataPath", "sandown/gallery.xml");
fo.write("flashcontent");    
</script>

You need a trailing slash in your imagePath in http://www.racing-images.co.uk/sandown/gallery.xml ie:

imagePath="sandown/images/"

Also, to make the background white, use:

var fo = new SWFObject("sandown/viewer.swf", "viewer", "800", "600", "8", "#ffffff");

Now that the background is white, you'll probably want to change the frameColor in the xml file so that the frames and navigation arrows show up.  Try frameColor="0x181818"

Hello again! I've tried putting another gallery on a different website but, for some reason, it insists on perching above the logo. Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong?