What module do I need?

[michaywood]

Hello CMSMSers,

I'm having problems searching for a module. The affect I want is like what this band has on their website http://ladyantebellum.com/


I'm wanting those rotating images (with a transition effect) on the homepage that are clickable to take you to pages within the website. The biggest feature i'm looking for is in the bottom right of the rotating images, the little clickable squares (don't have to be squares, can be whatever) that a user can go back to an image or skip ahead if they want to.

The http://ladyantebellum.com/ website was made in Drupal, so they used the Views Slideshow module to create this.

Anyone know of a CMSMS module that has the same features?

[rpr]

Do you know jQuery? You could just build this manually and add it to a page or template?

I've used the jQuery 'Cycle' plugin to do similar things:

http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/

Here's what I did with it, this is using CMSMS:

http://www.lodc.org

[michaywood]

Great use, rpr!

I am a designer, not a developer.. so manually creating one is a little out of my league. Thats why I was hoping for a module that could help me with this!

[rpr]

Thanks michaywood. I'm a designer too, which is partly why I use jQuery. It might be worth looking at if you get the time, then you'll be able to add this kind of thing to most CMS's. Drupal for example, uses the jQuery library by default.

Sorry I can't be of any more help with your immediate problem.

[uniqu3]

Hi Michaywood,

check for example this collection http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-deve ... galleries/
As you can see anything can be done with jQuery as "rpr" already suggested and with some tweaking you can come to your desired result, google for jquery slide gallery and you will for sure also find exactly the same effect as you want to have .

Most of the time i use the {content_image} tag to give the enduser the option to choose images per page or if you want to display featured posts like most of Wordpress templates you can even do this with News, Gallery or Album modules to with some time to write corresponding module templates.

For example this would be easy to implement:
http://nivo.dev7studios.com/

Another option would be a flash based slider like cu3er http://www.progressivered.com/cu3er/

[michaywood]

Great help, guys! Those demos are exactly what I'm looking for. It's definitely a little more involved than I was hoping... Maybe I'll just stick with the Simple Slider module until I can learn how to master jquery. If you don't want the numbers or arrows to switch back and forth, Simple Slider is a great module! And the images are linkable!

[Dr.CSS]

Something exactly like you want can be built in Album, EZ...

[michaywood]

Is it smart to use Album if it has no active developer?

[Dr.CSS]

I use it all the time, just because no one is improving/working it doesn't mean it doesn't still work ...

[michaywood]

Does someone happen to have a walkthrough on how to do this? I am in a little over my head on this one...

[Dr.CSS]

It all depends on what one you want to use, have you looked here, or on the Portfolio page, it has live websites popping over existing page...

http://multiintech.com/galleries.html