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4 items to consider when creating a homepage slideshow / banner

February 12, 2010 at 3:59 PM

1. Flash:

Not all browsers support flash, is there a fallback mechanism for the non-flash browsers eg. iphones.

2. Javascript:

If a user does not have javascript, will anything load?

3. User Controls:

Can a user control the slides: eg.rewind / forward / pause / go to slide # x by hovering on thumbnail x

4. Customizability:

Items that the owner of the site should be able to edit include:

  • The speed of the slides
  • order of the slides
  • links
  • Slide titles
  • slide text
  • The ability to add / delete slides

 

Here are a few....

 

 

 


Comments
noni | February 12, 2010 5:43 PM

those are great tips
kim | February 13, 2010 10:45 AM

good advice man
Dave Mello | February 15, 2010 9:14 AM

George: these are all great points, on a feature that seems to come up every time we build a site. I'm a big fan of using jQuery Tools for these types of widgets. (http://flowplayer.org/tools/index.html). The tab control in particular works really well for slideshows. Very easy to implement, and the code is about as clean as you can get.
Olivia | February 15, 2010 10:50 AM

Good pointers.