Posted by socialtalker on April 26, 2012 at 9:11pm
i would like opinions on the best slider, in terms of ease of use and versitile and stable. i was looking at the Nivo slider tutorial on youtube and i couldnt believe it.
he had to build a content type, a view, do all of this configurations, i was trying to figure out what the heck the module was for.
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two good options.
Check out the Rotating Banner module. Great usability. Works out of the box, just adding a new "rotating banner" block, and uploading new slides to the block. Can do a lot of custom theming with CSS easily. No content types, no views, etc.
http://drupal.org/project/rotating_banner
If you need more functionality, check out Views Slideshow. You will need to create a content type (or use a field from elsewhere on your site) and build a view to get it to work.
http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
Basic Nivo Slider
There are a number of modules which integrate Nivo Slider with Views, Image Fields and Media.
If you only require basic functionality, such as displaying a slider in a block with configurable settings, try the "regular" Nivo Slider module (which is different from the Views Nivo Slider module).