What is the best way to create an inline slideshow of images?
What is the best way to create an inline slideshow of images like the one they usually put on the first page and some articles on the http://www.nytimes.com site?
Required features:
1) The slideshow must be a view - for flexibility and easy placement in a node's body. The list of images must be derived from the view naturaly.
2) The slideshow must have some sort of controls: 1, 2, 3... links or "previous"/"next", etc. There must be some sort of manual control. This I think excludes the Views Slideshow module for the moment, since manual controls are not implemented there yet.
3) No custom coding. Just CSS tweaking is OK
Basically I want my users to have galleries og images (imagefields) and they should be able to write some text (create Story-like nodes) and optionally add some of their pictures to the text nodes in the form of slideshows.
Which module (combinations) support this functionality?
i assume custom requirements
i assume custom requirements should be made by custom coding, it's very easy to do it, for example via using http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/
You're asking for a lot.
You're asking for a lot. Consider hiring a Drupal developer to do the work for you. That or hire a Drupal user who knows a good way to implement such features with already available modules. I don't think you will get someone to help for free.
Custom code is often needed when dealing with Drupal. It's a shame, I know, but if you want ease of use, try Joomla. It caters more to lazy people than Drupal does.