Lightbox Effect

Jim,

I am a little confused here. The link you mention is not Articulate, it's a 3rd party.

The course seems to just be a standard Articulate Presenter course opening in a seperate browser window from the website - all standard stuff. The "lightbox" effect is being generated from the website side as far as I can see, not the Articulate side - which is just a standard course being opened.

A "lightbox" effect is not currently possible within the Articulate Presenter software as standard.

Have I misunderstood something here?

Bruce

Good question, Jim.

If you're using WordPress, you can use a simple plugin called Thickbox to load inline content. Here's a quick demo:

For html websites, you should look at Fancybox. If you have any questions around Fancybox, let me know. I don't use it often, but I have some samples I put together a while back.

In that case...perhaps I completely misunderstood the question, and have been bettered by techy-guru colleague! 

Bruce

I got three emails around lightboxes since Friday, so I kinda have "lightbox" on the brain.

Thanks for the suggestion

Hi David, 

I do not know how soon you might get back to me but I am hoping in God that you will get back to me with a solution to the question below:

I developed an e-learning course for my WordPress.org website via articulate presenter and I am finding it difficult to upload it. I have tried your approach but I realised I do not know how to upload the data and player folder file. Please how do I upload its via FTP (is it via zip file or a folder)?  

Shalom.

Hi Isaac,

where are you uploading you presentation to ?

If you're uploading it to an LMS, then it almost all cases it is using ZIP files for uploading.

The way you upload, depends on your LMS, it normally has a upload function that allows you to upload your compressed file and unzip it as soon as it is uploaded.

Again, depending on the LMS you use, it'll ask you what file to use as your starting point.

If your using an LMS then it'll be index_lms.html, otherwise if you do not use an LMS, it'll be player.html.

Both are present when you publish your presentation to an LMS.

Cheers

Geert

Hi Isaac - I received your Screenr so thank you.

From your video, I can see that your site uploaded correctly. Are you trying to load your Studio '09 course in a lightbox or do you simply want to link to it and open it in a new window from your WordPress site?

Hello Geert and David, 

Thank you for the reply.

@Geert, I am trying to upload to wordpress. 

@David, I wants to achieve the same effect as shown in your video. Where the lightbox will play the E-Learning course. Currently, when I clicked on the link nothing plays. 

Hope to hear from you soon. 

Shalom, 

Isaac

Isaac - did you install the FancyBox plugin? 

David- What I installed was ThickBox plugin. 

Hello David and Geert, 

By the Grace of God, there is a breakthrough. I have used Brian plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insert-or-embed-articulate-content-into-wordpress/ to upload one, which worked. 

The only issue I am currently facing is that I have three other file that are between 25MB to 30MB but the maximum limit my websites accept is 8MB, hence, I cannot upload it via the plugin, is there anyway around this?

Shalom, 

Isaac.

Hi Isaac -