Slidely is a free slideshow tool that allows you to create photo slideshows with captions and an audio track. You can import photos from many services (Facebook, Flickr, Google) or upload from your computer. It also allows you to overlay music from YouTube videos on your slideshow, but to avoid copyright issues it places a mini YouTube player in the bottom right corner of your slideshow. You can also upload your own audio if you want to create a narrated slideshow.
Here is a quick guide on how to add a Slidely presentation to your blog post:
- Once you’ve created your Slide.ly, there should be a “Share” button in the top left corner.
- If you click on that, you will get a list of icons for sharing. Click on the green icon with these symbols: < >
- From there, copy the iFrame code that is provided
- Go to the course blog and create a new post (or edit the post that you’re inserting the Slidely presentation in).
- Make sure you are in “Text” mode by clicking the tab that says “Text” in the top right corner of the post editor.
- Click the place in the post editor where you want the Slidely presentation to appear, then paste the iFrame code you’ve copied from Slidely.
- Click the blue Publish button (NOTE: it will not show up when you preview your post. You have to publish it first.)
A couple common issues:
- The Slidely player is too large and stretches beyond the width of the blog post.
Solution: Go in to the post editor (in Text mode), find the “width” and “height” attributes in the code, and alter them both to make the player smaller. Try to keep them proportional.
- The slide show does not appear after I click the Publish button, and when I go back to the post editor the iFrame code has disappeared.
Solution: Email [email protected] with your iFrame code.