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RE: Software for creating web-based photo album/slideshow?
Subject:RE: Software for creating web-based photo album/slideshow? From:"Charles, Dan" <dan -dot- charles -at- tyson -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:52:36 -0600
Good point. (I am very spoiled in my Intranet environment.)
Dan
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From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:52 AM
To: dan -dot- charles -at- tyson -dot- com
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Software for creating web-based photo album/slideshow?
Dan,
If Keith is sending out a personal photo album to family and friends, he
needs something a bit more browser-neutral than what you are suggesting.
He has no control over whether Aunt Bertha is using IE 6 or AOL 4 or
Netscale 4.5.
Dick
dan -dot- charles -at- tyson -dot- com wrote:
>Keith,
>Call me crazy, but if you already have MS Office 97 or newer, build the
>slide show in MS PowerPoint, and save it as HTML.
>Advantages listed below:
>* You don't need to buy anything.
>* Saving as HTML breaks the document up into individual html files for
>faster download.
>* The buttons and all that stuff will be built automatically if you choose
>the correct options in the save to web process.
>
>If you are using Office 2000 or newer, it will write real, very messy HTML
>rather than make a honking big JPEG image of the slide, and run still more
>quickly.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan Charles
>dan -dot- charles -at- tyson -dot- com
>
>
>
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