Now, this has not been an easy transition and my main problem was finding slideshow software which would enable me to create a link to these two sites. There are lots of great slideshow facilities out there and wordpress has a lot of plugins as well but I was disappointed to discover that many only enable viewing of slides and no place to include links to other sites. My other problem was being able to actually make the slideshow work properly in my website and as most of them are flash based, I had trouble with a couple and had to go back to the drawing board.
Anyway, I finally had success with JAlbum and it was probably the most user-friendly out of all of them with a nice, clean and freshly designed site. They have a cute frog as their mascot! You download the software, choose a theme or skin, (and I found one which enabled links) select the pictures for your slides then upload the whole thing to either your own website server or the JAlbum hosting facility which is free. I decided to do both. Now, I’ll be honest and say that it was not without its problems and I had a few glitches actually getting the slideshow to work properly on my server and it would start and then stop. I had to upload the whole slideshow a second time and had success.
The JAlbum community is a friendly one and when you upload your slideshow on there (or create a link to it if it’s on your website server), members can view your shows, comment on them, favourite them etc. I am very proud to announce that my album is one of the Featured Albums and I am thrilled. If you are considering slideshows on your site I would highly recommend JAlbum.
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