How to Use the Slide Carousel Program

Carousel Building Instructions

Main Menu

When you get to the main menu, you can either select an already made carousel to edit, or create a new one. The personal carousel link will show you all the carousels you've made. Choosing the public carousel link will allow you to search all carousels by any of the fields shown.

New Carousel

When you create a new carousel, you have to fill in all the requisite fields (those boxes marked by an *). Your personal info should be filled in automatically for you. After you fill out this form, you'll be taken directly to the search page. If you'd like to add slides to an already created carousel, choose the carousel from your list of personal carousel and click the Add button along the rightside menu frame.

Search Tips

Generally, I only type in just enough into a field in insure the optimum results. For example, if you weren't sure whether slides were marked "Greek" or "Greece", you could type "Gree" into the Country field and would get both results back. I also try to do many searches because one is rarely exhaustive. For instance, to return all 19th century American art, I would do two searches: one for US and another for America. Maybe even another for U.S. Etc.

When you do submit your search, you'll be returned thumbnails of all results. There is a checkbox and a position box. You check the box if you want to add the slide, and you fill in position with a number.

Each row of slides has a "submit selections" button. Click any of those to submit all slides you've checked. The program will then bring you to display mode on the first image in your carousel. If you've set your positions so that there's no #1 yet, the page will be blank. Don't worry - your carousel is still there. Just press the "thumbnails" button and you should see all your selections. From here you can choose Edit or Add. Edit will allow you to either change positions, hide, duplicate, or delete your selections.

Slide Position

Position works entirely numerically. Not only does it work by standard sequence (1, 2, 3) but also allows you to show two (or more) slides side-by-side. Say you have 4 slides in your carousel. The first one displays an overview of the painting. The next two are details and the last is the next painting the artist did. So, we want the first and last by themselves and the two details side by side. The sequence would look:

1, 2, 2.5, 3

The program sees the 2 and 2.5 as images that are to be shown within the "2 slot." You can add many images to the 2 slot in this way. You could have a sequence that looked like 1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 3.

You also don't need to have each number accounted for in a sequence. For instance, 5,10,15,20, is a perfectly acceptable sequence. In fact, if you don't fill in the position field when you're adding slides, the program will by default place the slides in a 5, 10, 15,... sequence. This is to allow you to set position later easier (so that moving the slide in the 20th position to the 2nd doesn't override a slide already set in that position).

Tips

If you're looking at a blank screen and you were expecting some slides, try the Thumbnails button. If all else fails, quit the browser and start it up again (also, emptying the cache should help as well).