I have just discovered slide.com. With a slide.com account you can
- Upload ALL your favorite photos with unlimited storage
- Create photo slideshows to share with friends
- Embed your photos on your favorite Social Network
I decided to test it out. I created an account and clicked on “Make slide show”. It offers a pretty easy interface to upload photos and to select what design you want – sliding, collage etc.. (see image below).
After a slide show is created you can edit it, remove pictures and re-arrange them by dragging them into the order that you want.
After you’ve created and saved the slide show – slide.com gives you an embed code that you can copy and paste into your blog.
Make sure your text editor in your blog is set to HTML tab and not the visual tab, and paste the code in where you want the slide show.
My initial slide show looked like this:
If you don’t want all of the tabs under your slide show, you need to alter the embed code slightly.
The slide show code itself is inbetween <object></object> tags. Look at the code, highlight everything that comes after the closing </object> tag and before the final closing </p> tag, and delete it.
It won’t get rid of the review and star links at the top of the slide show, but it will remove all the black buttons under the slide show.
One thing about slide.com, is that it does not yet have a way to protect your images from having other people download them. My suggestion is to use this tool only on images that you don’t mind having people review and download. This is a social media slide show tool, and is meant for blog posts that invite discussion.
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Slide.com is not very customer friendly. Once content is posted to the site you cannot remove it. My 9 year old posted pictures and we cannot get them removed. Repeated emails and support requests have gone unanswered. It has been almost a month now. I would not post anything on this site that you do not wish to live on in cyberspace forever.