More Photo Slideshows

Some friends have pointed that there are many other services that provide embedded Slideshows, like Yahoo’s flickr, Google’s Picassa, Slide.com, RockYou, SlideShare and SplashCast. I haven’t tried all of them out, but Picassa’s slideshow is pretty awesome.

When you have time give it a try.

Slideshows using Silverlight

But now I am going to show you an even kooler form of slideshow. Want to get something that looks like this ?

It is beautiful isn’t it. The only catch is that this is done using a new Microsoft’s software called Silverlight, which might not be available on all user machines. Users will have to download this piece of software (like you download flash to view flash content). The download is very quick, smooth and needed only the first time the user is browsing Silverlight content

Check out the full version at

http://designwithsilverlight.com/tutorials/photoGalleryWall/default.html

Now to set this up on your website, you will need to download it from the Silverlight community samples homepage

http://silverlight.net/community/gallerydetail.aspx?cat=1

Click on download it and follow the instructions in the doc file

[Update:] The download includes a javascript file that will automatically detect if user has silverlight installed and if not offers a link for the user to install.

It can display 16 images.

Your website will look kooler than ever now, thanks to Silverlight and Jeff Paries.

(Note there are several other kool slideshow apps on the Silverlight community gallery page. I haven’t got a chance to try all of them yet, but you might want to give them a try)