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Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsmaking an automatic image slider
I was wondering how to make an automatic slider for images on the front page. Any ideas? Thanks.
9 Answers
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsYou'll need jQuery, CSS and HTML/PHP to make a simple one. There's a tonne of resources out there for the varying styles. Just don't expect it to take you 30 minutes to learn. Took me like 2 days to make my first one but it is a bit more then your usual images slide left every 5 seconds.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsDo you want to make one from scratch, or just implement one you can download and use?
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsdoesn't matter but i would like to know both.
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsi just want something simple and wont take me forever to use.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsThan I'd suggest using something like http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
James Barnett
39,199 PointsYou also might want to check out http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsyea this makes better sense.
Al Lu
UX Design Techdegree Student 15,801 PointsFor now you can use free JQ plugin http://cube3x.com/2013/08/30-free-jquery-slider-plugins/
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointswhen I am saving .js file do I name it what ever, or do I name it something specific like we do with index.html
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsYou can name it what you want. If you're using a JS file from a slider you downloaded, I'd just leave that name alone for the file alone.
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsName it whatever but you need to make sure that any references, links, calls etc etc match that name if required.
There's a course on here about jQuery and another, albeit WordPress, that references use of flexslider.
Eddy Valna
Courses Plus Student 3,978 Pointsok thanks bros
Chris Scott
7,673 PointsBuild An Interactive Website by Andrew Chalkley will get you up in an hour or two.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsSomeone has made a slider without JS. http://codepen.io/drygiel/pen/rtpnE