To build a slide show inside a website,

  * create a folder in your website (probably at the root level0, for example "applets", 
    where you will keep all of your applets.

  * inside this folder create a file for all of your slide shows, for example,
    "slideShows."

  * uncompress this zip file into slideShows.  This places the slideShow.jar file there
    which contains all of the code for the slideshow applet. It also places an example 
    .htm file there for you to look at.

  * all of the data for the slideshow called "slideshow-1-1-fsa-build" is in the
    folder with that name.  This is an example of how you can configure your own slide
    shows.

  * each slideshow should be in a folder of its own inside the main slideShow folder.

  * each slideshow folder must contain one .xml that describes the slide show, and
    one "media" folder with all of the image files, text files, audio files, and 
    background audio file for the slide show, as given in this example.

Notes: Create audio narration files using audacity (or equivalent) and a simple 
      microphone plugged into the "microphone" input on your sound card.  Be sure to 
      set the sampling rate to be in the voice range (the higher the sampling rate,
      the larger the file; you do not need CD quality sampling for voice). I think 
      you can get away with about 11K for voice.  Just try it until you find a
      sampling rate that makes voice sound good but is not a high rate.  Save each
      voice recording that goes with a slide as a separate .wav file.

      The background track can be something you record from a CD or other source.
	  
	  The .htm file 1-01-04.htm shows an example of embedding a slide show applet into
	  a web page.  This can go anywhere in the website, only remember to change the
	  codebase address to be the address of the folder containing the slideShow.jar
	  file (relative from the location of the page containing the applet).  Try
	  using this sample page and the sample slide show to see how this works before
	  building your own.

      

