redkelly
03-08-2009, 09:34 AM
Hello all:
I'm new to the group here, so let me explain:
For the last several years, I have run a series of non-profit sites and blogs about the history of R&B and soul music that have generated a fair amount of content, like:
http://www.souldetective.com
http://redkelly.blogspot.com
http://www.ovwright.org etc.
At this stage of the game, I am trying to organize things into a more central location, and create a flash page that will index everything in a cool way. I've been playing around with the free WiX editor page, and have come up with a design concept that I want to use. There's a screenshot of it attached to this message, and you can view the work I've done so far at:
http://www.wix.com/redkelly/sd-work
Basically, I'm making a 'cover-flow' slide show of record label scans that are cropped into a circle, and including a media player that plays the audio from my sites. All of the images and audio are pre-existing, and I've just been able to enter the URLs from my main sites.
All well and good, BUT:
1.) I need the record label to be able bring up that song in the player, and conversely, when you select a song in the player, I need it to bring up the corresponding label... kind of exactly what iTunes does in it's cover-flow mode.
2.) At the same time, I need to include some kind of navigation with each label image that will include a link back to the page where I initially wrote about that record.
This seems like pretty simple and straightforward stuff, but so far I've been unable to make it work in WiX. Any navigation I add references only the images themselves, and there seems to be no way to edit the playlist behaviors in the media player... I'm also limited by the WYSIWYG interface at WiX, of course, and apparently can't write to the code myself.
SO - is there anybody out there who can help me figure this out, maybe help write a template that I can add the URLs of everything to or something? I will, of course, give credit on the site(s), and you'll be helping to preserve the history of soul for the OMG generation and beyond...
Thanks!
-red kelly
I'm new to the group here, so let me explain:
For the last several years, I have run a series of non-profit sites and blogs about the history of R&B and soul music that have generated a fair amount of content, like:
http://www.souldetective.com
http://redkelly.blogspot.com
http://www.ovwright.org etc.
At this stage of the game, I am trying to organize things into a more central location, and create a flash page that will index everything in a cool way. I've been playing around with the free WiX editor page, and have come up with a design concept that I want to use. There's a screenshot of it attached to this message, and you can view the work I've done so far at:
http://www.wix.com/redkelly/sd-work
Basically, I'm making a 'cover-flow' slide show of record label scans that are cropped into a circle, and including a media player that plays the audio from my sites. All of the images and audio are pre-existing, and I've just been able to enter the URLs from my main sites.
All well and good, BUT:
1.) I need the record label to be able bring up that song in the player, and conversely, when you select a song in the player, I need it to bring up the corresponding label... kind of exactly what iTunes does in it's cover-flow mode.
2.) At the same time, I need to include some kind of navigation with each label image that will include a link back to the page where I initially wrote about that record.
This seems like pretty simple and straightforward stuff, but so far I've been unable to make it work in WiX. Any navigation I add references only the images themselves, and there seems to be no way to edit the playlist behaviors in the media player... I'm also limited by the WYSIWYG interface at WiX, of course, and apparently can't write to the code myself.
SO - is there anybody out there who can help me figure this out, maybe help write a template that I can add the URLs of everything to or something? I will, of course, give credit on the site(s), and you'll be helping to preserve the history of soul for the OMG generation and beyond...
Thanks!
-red kelly