April 16th, 2007
I’ve never tried scrapbooking on my own, so I was excited to test out the Online Scrapbook at heartvault.com . My first word of advice is to only visit the site while using Internet Explorer. When I clicked on the gallery, I kept getting error messages while using Firefox. I had no problems accessing the gallery when I switched to IE and everything loaded smoothly and quickly.
I really like the concept behind HeartVault. However, it seemed very difficult to use because I couldn’t find any instructions. When I clicked on the link, “Examples”, it says “To open just click on a book”. Then I wonder, which books? The ones above the “About Us” link, or the large examples below? So, I decide to take a chance and click on the picture of the bride and groom. It’s a wedding album, a very nice one, and it’s easy to figure out how to turn the pages. However, I’m trying to make my own book, so back to clicking I go.
Somehow, I managed to click myself out of my account, so I log back in. The two pictures that I uploaded are still there, and I click on “Add New Scrapbook”… but where is the picture that I just uploaded? I don’t have a clue, and for some reason, I have to log back in again.
I went through a lot of trial and error in order to make this page http://www.heartvault.com make this page. The strange thing is, the image shows up if I paste the url directly into another browser window, but there seemed to be nothing I could do to embed it into this post.
http://www.heartvault.com/asp/Book.aspx?ScrapbookID=187
Part of the directions say, “To embed this scrapbook into another web page that supports JavaScript, copy and paste the following HTML:
| <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.heartvault.com/js/Flash.js”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”>Flash(‘http://heartvault.s3.amazonaws.com/Site/view?bookID=187′, ‘button1′, 500, 313);</script> |
So then I also tried this:
To embed this scrapbook into a web page that does not support JavaScript (MySpace Blog, Blogger), copy and paste the following HTML:
| <embed src=http://heartvault.s3.amazonaws.com/Site/view.swf flashvars=bookID=187 width=500 height=313 bgcolor=#FFFFFF type=application/x-shockwave-flash pluginspace=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer /> |
And I pasted the code, not just the copy and paste that I’m showing. However, there was absolutely nothing I could do to embed the image. My son also tried to help me embed the image to no avail. I guess you can always click on the link to see the page I made.
Like I said, this is really a great idea. I really wanted to make a scrapbook showing various members of my family over the last 70 years. In my mind, I was going to start with a picture of my great grandmother, and end with a picture of the youngest member of my extended family. Right now, because it’s in beta, this site seems to be more suited to someone that is more familiar with scrapbooking. Also, it seems to be totally incompatible with Firefox, which happens to be a very popular browser. I thought I came up with a good idea for my first scrapbook, and I think that I’ll be able to implement it as soon as I figure out the learning curve at HeartVault.
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Hi,
Try to copy and paste the embed just before you publish the post. I found that if I edit or republish the post, the embed will not working. And the code was changed!
p/s: is that your son picture in the scrapbook? why look so angry?
Thanks for the hint. I may just try this again tomorrow because it does seem like fun. And that is my son in the picture. I guess he looks so angry because he was taking his own picture with the cell phone. Normally, he smiles a lot and is very cheerful. I don’t even remember why I chose this picture, I guess I was frustrated with the whole process and just used the first picture I found.