Comments on: iWeb Tip #19 – Shadowbox in iWeb

By: daniele

daniele — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:46:32 +0000

BenP and i have the same problem, see our post in January, anyone sort it out?

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:24:57 +0000

Is there anyway to not lose all the html code when we change anything in iWeb and publish the site again???? depending on the website, if we change one letter, we have to do everything all over again!!! to much work!!!

By: Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:03:41 +0000

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By: Emilie

Emilie — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:24:24 +0000

I laugh in the face of HTML coding ;) finally have got this amazing effect to work with vimeo!!! am very very proud….so after following the iwebunlimited steps my coding looked like this: (N.B. XXXXXXXX stands for your vimeo video number)

At which point when I tried the video it would either go to a blank screen or directly link to the vimeo page, bypassing the shadowbox effect.

However if you go to your vimeo video and click on the share icon (that appears in the top right hand corner) it will open up another window which has the vimeo embed coding. Which will look something like this…slight variations will occur depending on your embed customisation options you've chosen.

You will only need part of this coding so copy the following:

“http://player.vimeo.com/video/XXXXXXXX?byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=1″ width=”500″ height=”291″ frameborder=”0″

Then go back to your HTML code editor (I use Text Wrangler). Wheras before you had:

href=”https://vimeo.com/XXXXXXXX”

replace it with the coding you have copied so you get

href=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/XXXXXXXX?byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=1″ width=”500″ height=”291″ frameborder=”0″

so my whole coding for my video should look like this:

Shadowbox.init({ players: ['img', 'html', 'iframe', 'qt', 'wmp', 'swf', 'flv'] });

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:09:46 +0000

FOLLOW-ON:
I’m still having troubles with quicktime
But YouTube works GREAT!

Two additional questions:
1. I’d like to link to a couple of other sites with videos (e.g. edutopia, NBC news) but they don’t seem to work – any suggestions on how to find out the key to launching their videos within the webpage?

2. The pages I built work great on my Mac in Safari, Chrome, FIrefox. But when I bring them up on a WIndows machine in Explorer – they don’t work. Same is true of an iPad – (but I may be asking too much)

Any suggestions or help is GREATLY appreciated.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:53:29 +0000

Hi
I’m trying to build some pages with videos. I can get YouTube to play OK – but I can’t get .mov to play – a window opens but I get the “Q” with the question mark?
I’ve made sure the movie is in the resource folder for the page
I have Quiktime Pro on my machine
But no joy

ANy help you can give is appreciated – thanks for the website. It’s great

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:27:55 +0000

Hi,

I’m using this to display a group of photos. I have a Menu bar built in flash that is embedded into the site. When the shadowbox appears, the flash menu remains the same and is in front of the shadowbox pictures. Am I just not layering things correctly, or is there another issue with Shadowbox working with flash elements on a page?

By: William

William — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:53:37 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I’m working with iWeb ‘08, and I placed the code exactly as it is written in the instructions. For some reason, when I execute the page, it begins to download my videos instead of executing the shadowbox.

What am I doing wrong? I have a thumbnail picture representing my FLV video, and it is hyperlinked to “a file”, which is the FLV video I want to play in the shadowbox. Instead of the shadowbox popping up, the files begin to download…hmmm….

Any suggestions would help. Thank you!!!