How to Put a ProShow on Your Website

Overview

Using ProShow Gold or Producer, you can create a slide show that can be displayed on your web site. Online slide shows are viewed using the Photodex Presenter plug-in, which is included with all ProShow products, or available as a free download from the Photodex web site.

To Create a Web Show

1. Create a slide show in ProShow Producer or ProShow Gold 3.0.
2. Select Create > Web Show.
3. Configure output setting and menu as desired.
4. Click < Output Options > on the left and check the box next to Create Web Page.
5. Click < Create >.
6. Enter a file name and location to save the file to. To avoid problems later, use only lower case letters, numbers, dashes (-) or underscore characters (_) in the file name. Avoid spaces and other punctuation characters. Save the file in a folder where you can find it later. This is the actual web show file that you will need to upload to your web site.

HTML

In order to display your slide show on your site, you must embedd it within a web page. Checking the Create Web Page box as described above will generate a basic web page automatically. The file will be created in the same location that you specified for the web show file, and will have the same file name. If you are familiar with HTML and would like to edit the web page yourself, you can leave the box unchecked and just click the View HTML button next to Create at the bottom. This will generate the necessary code, which you can copy and paste into your HTML editor.

Putting It All Together

Once you have created your web show file and the web page that will display it, you need to upload both to your web server. Make sure that both files are uploaded to the same directory on the server. For this example, assume that your web show and HTML files are called "myshow.px" and "myshow.html," respectively, and you have uploaded them to "www.mywebsite.com" in the top level directory. Pointing your web browser to the address "http://www.mywebsite.com/myshow.html" should display your slide show.