When not using SlideShowPro Director or a Media RSS feed for SlideShowPro Player content, it's up to you to create the requisite XML markup and slideshow content. This will require some basic understanding of web development, and require you to use tools like Photoshop as well as a text/HTML editor to create XML markup. We'll cover all the essentials here -- from XML formatting to detailed instructions for creating/loading images, videos, captions, links and more.