Frequently Asked Questions:

Can I embed a ShowIt slideshow? How do I center it?

Q: Can I embed a ShowIt slideshow? How do I center it?

A: Yes, just paste the embed code generated by ShowIt Web into the CODE EDITOR section of your posting admin panel.

If you want the slideshow centered, after you’ve pasted in the code into the code editor, add this tag before: <p align="center"> and this tag after:</p>.

NOTE: if you can’t see the controls of your ShowIt slideshow after embedding it, it’s probably a background color issue. For example, if you normally have your ShowIt slideshow web pages with a black background, ShowIt will make the controls WHITE so you can see them. However, if you paste the embed code into a blog with a white background, now you won’t be able to see the controls even though they are there. To fix this, just create an additional showit web page with the same background color as your blog, and use the embed code generated when making that page.

NOTE #2: Sometimes people get a problem when embedding ShowIt slideshows where the whole blog kind of breaks, and text below the show flows off into the background and everything looks weird. Click here for fix.

Questions? Instead of emailing for support, leave a comment below so everyone can benefit from any clarification.

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10 Responses to “Can I embed a ShowIt slideshow? How do I center it?”

  1. On May 12th, 2008 at 7:14 am Lindsey Marie said:

    Hey People!
    is this code right?
    this is definately not working for me! Any suggestions? Thanks so much!

  2. On May 12th, 2008 at 9:49 am Jared said:

    Lindsay => your slideshows seem to be working fine, as far as i can tell, just loading slowly. Did you get it all figured out?

  3. On May 12th, 2008 at 2:58 pm Lindsey Marie said:

    thanks for responding! i see that they work i just can’t get them centered, that’s all! thanks!

  4. On May 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm Jared said:

    ahhh, i see the problem, you have an extra set of quotes around “center” your code says: <p align="”center”">. Remove the inner, curley quotes and you should be fine.

  5. On May 21st, 2008 at 10:05 pm kanaka said:

    Editing the showit.xml file and replacing FFFFFF with 000000 will work. Check out the colors for text.

    thanks
    Kanaka

  6. On June 1st, 2008 at 9:28 am Sinead said:

    Hi Jared,
    I’m able to embed my slideshow, but I can’t seem to get it centered no matter what I do. I’d appreciate any suggestions you might have.

  7. On June 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am Jared said:

    Sinead, your embed code (I think) looks like this:

    <div><iframe width=”610″ scrolling=”no” height=”590″ frameborder=”0″ title=”Showit Web Slideshow” src=”http://studiosinead.com/slideshows/shostak/iframe.html” style=”border: medium none ;”/></div>

    It should look like this:

    <div align=”center”><iframe width=”610″ scrolling=”no” height=”590″ frameborder=”0″ title=”Showit Web Slideshow” src=”http://studiosinead.com/slideshows/shostak/iframe.html” style=”border: medium none ;”/></div>

  8. On June 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm Sinead said:

    YAY!!! That’s it!
    Thank you, Jared.

  9. On June 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am Andrea said:

    Hi Jared,

    I’m trying to upload a ShowIt slideshow.. but it’s not working. I copied the code under the “html” part of the post, but this is what it says:

    The requested URL /Swimming/iframe.html was not found on this server.
    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    I have upload the file to the “www” .

    Any suggestions would be great!

  10. On June 17th, 2008 at 10:59 am Andrea said:

    Hey Jared. I figured it out. Sorry.
    Thanks.

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