Recently I was interested in placing slideshows on the blog to show off photo stories and other projects (I shyed away from the idea of a photoblog, choosing rather to keep everything in one place).
I ran across Lightbox JS, but it required hosting the code somewhere, and I was in no position to do this.
As I kept looking about, I read an article on Ryan Sholin’s blog about new internet toys and was directed toward Slideroll. A device of the so called Web 2.0 future (whatever that marketing fluff may be).
As an experiment I decided to play with Slideroll and created the below. The program is very simple and clean and it works with Flickr which makes it very simple. I didn’t try it with any of the other hosting services out there, but I imagine it should work just as well, however I doubt just as easily.
Without further ado, here’s Series One of the Cutout saga. (Collect them all!)
I was excited to see the option to add sound, however it fails by not allowing you to upload your own music. I supposed copyright concerns kept the simple feature out, but a simple TOS agreement would have taken care of that. Maybe in the future, but for now, this is a very annoying limitation. I’ve always said half of the presentation is the audio, Slideroll misses half the point.
