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iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Peter Shepheard
I use Adobe Lightroom to produce slide shows. This gives me a folder with its own index.html and clicking on this runs the show in my Safari browser.
I am constructing a site in iWeb and would like to be able to create a page with links to my slide shows. I am using BlueHost and publishing the site via FTP using Cyberduck so have some freedom to create folders independent of iWeb. I do not have a MobileMe subscription.
I thought a simple html link would do the trick but I cannot get it to work.
Can anyone please tell me how to do this?
Many thanks
Peter

Re: iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Mick Burrell
I'd need a little more to go on. You say a simple html link should work which suggests you know the syntax - is that the case?

Re: iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Mark Ford
I am not familiar with Lightroom so perhaps my thoughts are useless in this context!

I am not sure I have understood you.
Are you trying to make a hyperlink from your iWeb site to another web site where you have put your slide show?

If that is not the case then what happens if you select the slide show in the iWeb Media Browser?
As a last resort is it possible to save the slide show as a QuickTime Movie and then select that?

Re: iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Peter Shepheard
Thanks for your replies. I think my problem is that I have not managed to find where the Apache Server is looking for my file and as it is not in the place it expects it to be it can't find it. So I will just have to keep trying to find the right location.
Mick,
I have built a site previously just using html and an editor so I do have some knowledge of the syntax. I would have to admit that after 18 months without using it I had to check back on my previous notes.
Mark,
I am trying to make a link within the same site and I now think it will work if I upload the site to my hosts server. I would first prefer to test it as it is meant to be viewed on my iMac. All I want to do on the iMac is create a link from my site designed in iWeb to an index.html file that sits in a suitable location on my hard drive. In other words I need to provide a path to this file. On my PC I could have written a path such as C:/sitename/folder/index.html. I am trying to find the correct entry to make in iWeb when I create a hyperlink using the Inspector.
As Lightroom creates a folder with an index.html file Media Browser would not I think identify it as being media. I have asked on another forum if anyone knows how to save the slide show as a Quicktime Movie but have not had any luck with that yet.
I am confident there is a solution and I will find it eventually!

Re: iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Mick Burrell
Don't forget HTML links are relevant to where the current file resides. You step back through directory (folder) levels by preceding the filename with dots - as in ../images/picture.jpg

Re: iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Trevor Hewson
I'm not sure I have completely understood this but local links on my local copy of my website take this form:
file:///Users/username/foldername/filename.html

This is I think the equivalent of your PC C:/sitename etc.

Hope this helps

Trevor

Re: iWeb and html snippets advice please

Avatar Peter Shepheard
I have now found the answer to this question.
If you go to Preferences and Web Sharing you will find the address of your personal web site.
Looking in Finder I have Sites/mysitename/Flashgal/index.html
If I use the address of my personal web site which looks like http://123.456.0.2/~Peter/ and then add mysitename/Flashgal/index.html to this and then enter this entire string into iWeb as an external page with a hyperlink url of http://123.456.0.2/~Peter/mysitename/Flashgal/index.html then my site published to my local hard drive finds the Flash Gallery and shows it in a separate window.
Thanks for all your suggestions and I hope this may be of use to someone else in the future.
Peter
 
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