HTML Photo Album

[QueHuong]

A priest at my church is moving to another district because his term is over and the district is trying to make him a farewell gift. One was to make an electronic album. I offered to help with the scanning and burning the pictures on a CD.

My plan is to scan the pics in high resolution, put them all in one folder and make one HTML file that has javascript that automatically open the pics from the folder and so I don't need to make a seperate HTML page for each picture. Is there a better way to make an electronic photo album or should this be sufficient (so far, we only collected 25 pictures)?

One more thing...the person in charge is asking me "Do you know how to put them to music?"...I'm assuming she means having music play in the background. I know that IE can play MIDI files but that's too primitive. Can IE play MP3s or WAVs? If so, how?

 

[TuffGirl]

Do you have Photoshop v5.5 or up? If so, an alternative way to create a web photo gallery is to let Photoshop do it for you. In the File menu, select 'Automate' then 'Web Photo Gallery'. Put your 25 images in one folder and select that as your 'Source'. Then when you hit OK, Photoshop automatically creates folders for thumbnails, images (resized if you opted for that), and html pages for each photo in the Destination you select. It saves so much grunt work. I love it! Here is an example.

 

[gopunk]

please don't put the music in.

 

[bunker]

<< please don't put the music in. >>


Why not? It's a photo album for him that's a keepsake kind of thing.

I would agree with you if this was going on the web, but it's a personal thing here.

 

[Karsten]

What are you using fro edeting?

If Dreamweaver4, take a look at this: Elisha Laqua's Webpage

I mainly made this for my family and it was designed to go on CD. That's why some of the Video's are quiet big.
I used dreamweaver with a couple free plugins from the Macromedia Exchange program (free).

I especialy like the pop up picture from the picture overview window that closes when you click anywhere within the frame.
Also the Video playing within the page without seperate popup.

If Dreamweaver is what you use you can PM me and I give you more details.

 

[QueHuong]

Wow..awesome site, Karsten. However, I'm not using Dreamweaver though; I was planning on coding a simple HTML page by hand that displays the pictures...but I'm gonna try Klee's suggestion.

But my question hasn't been answered: can IE open a web page that plays either a wav or mp3 file? If it can, how do I do that and just in case the priest doesn't like the music, how do I make it stop?

 

[bunker]

There is a tag to play music, or at least there was, it may have been deprecated. I'll look around and see what I can find.

If he wants to stop the music pressing escape should do it.

 

[bunker]

If you can make sure he's using Internet Explorer you can use <BGSOUND SRC="sound.wav" LOOP="###">

Loop tells it how many times to play or you can say loop="infinite" and it won't stop.

As far as I know this will only work with IE.

Otherwise you will have to embed the sound which will put a little media player like control on your page and allow him to start/stop it at will.

 

[QueHuong]

<< Otherwise you will have to embed the sound which will put a little media player like control on your page and allow him to start/stop it at will. >>



How do I do that? Thanks.

 

[bunker]

How to embed sound