curious about a slideshow

Posted by rotnme on August 6, 2010 at 1:40am

I'm not sure if this is an easy task or something monumental. What I'm thinking of is a module or some way to use views to have a series of photographs randomly cycle through on a page. Ideally somehow in the background, if that makes sense. I was just thinking about this today and am looking for a starting point. Thanks in advance.

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Views

Posted by sheena_d on August 6, 2010 at 2:17am

Views Slideshow
http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow

want it in the background? create a region in the theme, place block in said region. Absolutely position region and assign a low z-index. have the rest of the page content in a separate div with a larger z-index.

Thanks

Posted by rotnme on August 6, 2010 at 2:26am

Thank you! I knew there had to be a way. Once again the Oracle provides the answer. Wish you were still in Raleigh. I may be taking on more than I can handle, should I get stuck may I contact you? Thanks again.

Mark

if you have any problems,

Posted by sheena_d on August 6, 2010 at 2:17pm

if you have any problems, please post them here so that all the community can benefit from whatever help you get. Thanks.

I'm confused. Downloaded

Posted by rotnme on August 6, 2010 at 4:29am

I'm confused. Downloaded views_slideshow, uploaded it, it also installed views slideshow single frame, views slideshow thumbnailhover. Now what or where do I go or look to enable and configure? I was hoping this wouldn't be complicated. Thanks.

Views slideshow is a views

Posted by sheena_d on August 6, 2010 at 2:15pm

Views slideshow is a views style plugin, so all the settings are within the view that you want to turn into a slideshow.

Also, it's always best to read through the documentation for a module to learn how to use it: http://drupal.org/node/755016

See Advanced Help

Posted by hallman on August 6, 2010 at 11:56am

There are some instructions under .../admin/advanced_help, Views Slideshow: SingleFrame, Create a slideshow of rotating images -- .../help/views_slideshow_singleframe/image-slideshow

Judy Hallman

Well after a few days of

Posted by rotnme on August 11, 2010 at 5:45am

Well after a few days of chipping away at this slideshow thing I have a handle on it. All is created and scrolls through when I am in views/galleries/banner_photos. However, I am having a hell of a time trying to promote this to the front page. I have entered the url, etc but for whatever reason my regular front page view still shows. Any input is appreciated as always.

You could create the

Posted by sheena_d on August 11, 2010 at 5:37pm

You could create the slideshow as a Views block and place that in a region and set it to display only on the homepage. Or, if you want the slideshow to be the main content of the homepage (i.e. replace the default drupal stream of content) then you can change the settings on /admin/settings/site-information. See documentation on how to do that: http://drupal.org/node/265172

I did change the settings on

Posted by rotnme on August 12, 2010 at 3:57am

I did change the settings on admin/settings/site info but was still stymied. Backtracked and made a couple of changes (banner_small image linked to node, banner_full image linked to image, basically went thru this step by step checking what I have done, http://www.bywombats.com/blog/06-08-2010/building-rotating-image-banner-.... At this point I am having trouble getting my images to the proper height, and the scrolling shows up on the .com page rather than the .com/home page. Followed node 265172 as well. Brain is overwhelmed at this point. Sorry if there is info lacking but like I said, brain is tired. Suggestions appreciated.