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Trying to insert Lightroom's simple viewer into a web page that I built in dreamweaver however, lightroom seems to create an index page of the gallery of images.

Two questions....
#1 In dreamweaver, insert media I get a few choices. Which one do I insert? Flash? or Shockwave? Lightroom creates a "viewer.swf" file. Is that Flash or Shockwave?

#2 Is the index page that lighroom creates need to be incorporated into the page that I have created? If so, how?

Example: Created an artists page and named it Adrian.html in dreamweaver fit with a header, images, links... the gallery from Lightroom should nestle just below all the other information in a tabled cell.

So in reference to #2.... Lightroom's index.html page, in essence, should be Adrian.html page... correct?

I'm really lost and really struggling.

I have over 2' different artists I need to create galleries for to display on a website. I'm desperate for help.

Please move to appropriate area, I didn't know where to post this.

Thanks heaps!
 
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Hi Dee, I have no idea but welcome to the forum. I'm sure when the northern hemisphere people get out of bed an answer will pop right up.
 
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Could you let everyone know your solution to help others.
 
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I don't know how to explain it since I've been at it for two days trying to figure it out. It was actually very simple now that I think about it.

For starters I used the Airtight Simpleviewer.

Since I had about 15 to 2' different galleries, I made separate catalogs for each artist.
Then I created the gallery, adjusted my settings, titled the images, all that stuff then exported (lower right "export" button in lightroom) into the folder that contains all the other web files. When exporting it asks you to name the folder. I named the folder by the artist.
(see attached image for hierarchy)
Lightroom creates its own index file for that artist (or particular gallery) but I didn't want to use that index page. I wanted to use my own page already layed out with my own header and css style.
Next, in dreamweaver, I opened the artist page (not lightrooms index) and insert->media->Flash into the appropriate area of the cell/layout/where ever.... viola!

What I figured out is that the page I create needs to be in the same folder as the Lightroom gallery one that was exported. Otherwise, when viewing in a browser, you'll get Can't Find Gallery Images, or something like that.

So each artists has their own page (ignoring the index page) within the Lightroom exports.

I also had to go into each artist page and edit some code so that my pages would scroll down to the simpleviewer gallery. The code had "hidden" instead of "scroll".

Well there it is... I hope this all makes sense and is understandable.

The site isn't ready yet but here's a link to the galleries....
http://www.reefgifts.com/Reef-Test/AdrianMcGlusky/mcglusky.html
All the names above are the other artists I've created galleries for.

If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them. :lol:
 
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Thanks Ocker !!:lol:
 
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Wow thanks for this posting!
I've been struggling myself to do EXACTLY the same thing.
And thanks to your finding, I resolve it too.
Again thanks for sharing!
 
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All that work on their website and it folded. Out of Business :roll:

So the link to the site won't work anymore as I pulled it. But glad I was able to help someone else out and now we know what to do in the future! :cheesy:
 
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Oh, AussieDee, what a shame! Oh well, at least something good came of it.
 
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Better late than never :) solution

hi to all, my first post here:)
sorry for my English.
so i was looking around for a solution, found this forum and after 3 days found solution:idea: !!!
here is my page http://max.haoneg.com/max/galleries.html "Tab 2" is Lightroom simpleviewer.
the gallery is in it's folder and galleries.html in my root folder, i used "iframe" tag to embed Lightroom gallery's index.html in to "Spray Tabs"

Code: 
<iframe src =[B][url]http://max.haoneg.com/max/galleries/Ohana%2'book/index.html[/url][/B]" width="1''%" height="6''" align="top" scrolling="auto" frameborder="'" >

so it shows web page (gallery/../index.html) in a your web page.
one more u need to set BG colour of your gallery to same colour of your "Tabs" (or tabs to gallery) default for Dreamweaver CS4 is "#EEE".

[COLOR="Red]one more !!! the height of the ifarme:[/COLOR]
it not adding a scroll bar to simpleviewer if set to "yes", so just leave it "auto".(don't know how to fix this one) simpleviewer will downscale it self.
so add extra 1''-15'px to the iframe height.

i hope it helped, "tabs" and "iframe" actuality a relay good way to navigate ur galleries, because ur galleries is different web pages, ones u load simpleviewer page and moved to another tab, if u go back, it will stay loaded.

p.s.
maybe someone know how to turn off blue link glow in safari ?
 
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Max, welcome to the forum! And well done for figuring it out!
 
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Hi I hope some one can help me I have exported my web gallery out of lightroom but I just cant get it into Dreamweaver.

I have the gallery saved in the same folder as my DW page. I did insert->media->Flash paper then I don't know what to choose. My choices are Images, Gallery, swfobject, Index and Viewer.

HELP
 
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You might like to check out our web site www.photosbysandj.com. All of the images in the galleries were done in LR and then linked to each gallery page in Dreamweaver. Note: all galleries don't work yet, but will soon! Just don't ask me how it is done...I know how but really don't think I could express the the directions in a way anyone could understand. I just know it can be done, and if I can figure it out most anyone can.
 
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