Browser Versions

The main slideshow has been tested with Internet Explorer 6.0 and with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. It may not work properly with earlier versions of those browsers or with other browsers. It works best at a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher.

IMPORTANT: If you use Internet Explorer, when you first launch the slideshow or the audio file, IE may block the scripts and display a warning message with a yellow shield in a bar near the top of the browser window. You must click the bar, then click "Allow blocked content" then "Yes" to allow the scripts to run.

If you have trouble getting the main slideshow to work, try the alternate version ("alt version" link on the cover page). It uses only simple html code and should work on all browsers, even old ones, but it does not run in automatic mode, nor does it offer features.

Scripting

The slideshow depends on JavaScript (a.k.a JScript, or just "scripting"), which you must have enabled in your browser's properties.

Controls

In the slideshow, as you hover your mouse over the controls in the bar at the top, pop-up text should appear with brief explanations. Please experiment with the all the controls.

The "+" and "-" buttons zoom the images in or out fractionally each time they're clicked -- or you can key an exact pixel height into the "px" field. (After keying text into any of the fields, click once on the slide background to activate the change.)

There are two ways to use "thumbnail" images -- either in a column at the left (the "thumbs" button), or in a whole window by themselves (the button labeled "::"). In either case, clicking on a thumbnail brings up a larger image.

You can click the button labeled "hide" (at the left) to make all the controls vanish. They can be restored by clicking the grey "»" link that appears in the upper-left.

At the end of the control bar you'll find a small grey "»" link that makes additional controls appear/disappear, including a set of "bookmarks" that let you jump directly to designated groups of slides in the slideshow.

A checkbox labeled "Loop thru" lets you control whether the slide show stops at the end or loops back, and you can designate whether to repeat the whole show or just the current group of slides.

Finally, a "hi-res" checkbox controls whether the images shown in the slideshow are at the default medium resolution (800x600) or at the original high resolution (which varies depending on the camera used). If you choose to run the show at high resolution, you may have to slow it down to at least 3-4 seconds per slide, depending on your computer's speed and memory, since the larger images take noticeably longer to load.

You'll also find checkboxes named "title" and "captions" for toggling the page title and picture captions on and off.

Full-Screen Presentations

Since both Internet Explorer and Firefox have a "View > Full Screen" option (F11 key), by making the slideshow controls vanish (and optionally the page title and picture captions, as well) you can create a self-running slide show that displays only the pictures, full-screen against a completely black background, suitable for projection. (This is similar to what you might do with PowerPoint.)

A few tips:

1. After making your browser full-screen, hitting F11 again normally restores it. (However, with Firefox, after running the show in automatic mode, you might have to navigate back to the Cover Page or Help Page before F11 works again.)
2. After going full-screen, IE and Firefox will each leave an unsightly control bar at the top. To make it vanish with Firefox, before going full-screen click on View > Toolbars and turn off all the toolbars. To make it vanish with IE, go full-screen first and then right-click on the control bar and check Auto-Hide.
3. After going full-screen, you can right-click the background and click Reload or Refresh on the pop-up menu. This will resize the image to nearly full-screen.

Image Transitions

When you view the slideshow with Microsoft Internet Explorer, the slides should do a fade transition from one to the next. Unfortunately, as of this writing, Firefox does not support this feature.

Please direct feedback and questions to Paul Tukey, .