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?
Comments
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.
Visit my under-construction site. Let me know what you think. Thanks.