Frontpage Slideshow [support thread]

[reevesofbath]

Hi I am running this slide show and very good it is but I have one problem, on my front page it has moved all the prices up to the centre of the picture, my site is www.reevesofbath.co.uk I am running a new install of Zencart ver 1.5. I would be greatfull of any help please, thanks Dave

[windsurfer]

I have it running at www.mysurplus.ca and looks to me that first of all your images are all different sizes, the size of you slideshow display box should correspond to the size of your images, and you need to do some css adjusting to get the price and numbers of the images in the right place.

[CaptainBigPoop]

Hello,

So I have decided to go ahead and install this "Frontpage Slideshow", however I have never done a add-on install and the install instructions do not make much sense to me. So, at this point I am not confident enough to do the install until I can get a clearer picture on how to do the install.

Can someone please provide a further explanation to the given instructions listed below.


1. Rename ADMIN to your admin's folder name

Okay this step makes sense to me

2. Rename YOUR_TEMPLATE to your template's folder name

Okay this step makes sense to me

3. Copy all folders and files from ADMIN and SITE to your website

Where do I copy them to? What directory?

4. Copy contents of file 'slideshow.sql' and run through admin->tools->Install SQL Patches

Where do I copy them to? What directory?

5. Go to admin->tools->slideshow and add/edit/delete your slides

Okay this step makes sense to me


Your help is appreciated.

[Andy-C27]

3. Copy all folders and files from ADMIN and SITE to your website

You need to ftp these files to your site ..use filezila

4. Copy contents of file 'slideshow.sql' and run through admin->tools->Install SQL Patches

as it says copy ALL the code in the file and go to sql patches in your zencart admin and run it ..www.website/admin

hope this helps

[spawnie69]

Hey everyone, this is my slidshow www.gelcandlecompany.com and I like it very much.
Is it me or is not possible to have each image be a link to a url?
If so how can this be done?

Thanks!

[Elijah]

I have this mod up and running HERE, thank you for this! I do have two questions though.

1) can the slides be reordered without having to delete and re-insert?

2) can each slide link to a unique URL?

Thanks again for this mod it really puts the finishing touches on the site.

[spawnie69]

I have this mod up and running HERE, thank you for this! I do have two questions though.

1) can the slides be reordered without having to delete and re-insert?

2) can each slide link to a unique URL?

Thanks again for this mod it really puts the finishing touches on the site.

Answers to your questions...
#1 - I don't think so
#2 - In Admin...Tools...Slideshow... enter your link to your image next to "Url" and click insert.

Your site looks very nice. How did you adjust the image size to be so large? I tried increasing my image size like yours and the image was cropped. Here is my site: www.gelcandlecompany.com

Thanks!

[Elijah]

Answers to your questions...
#1 - I don't think so
#2 - In Admin...Tools...Slideshow... enter your link to your image next to "Url" and click insert.

Your site looks very nice. How did you adjust the image size to be so large? I tried increasing my image size like yours and the image was cropped. Here is my site: www.gelcandlecompany.com

Thanks!

Thank you for the URL info, it was right in front of my face!

You can change the size of the slideshow display by changing the css file

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/stylesheet_slider.css

look for the section with this text "/*define width and height of list item (slide) entire slider area will adjust according to the parameters provided here */". Just below this is where you can adjust the width and height. Make sure that you create your images to the same size that you define here. Hope that helps.

[chimusoro]

I have "CSS Horizontal Dropdown Menu With jquery" running too.
Good point had not thought of this.

I can't send you a url, as I have the site running on xampp.

Any way of overcomming this problem?

I really need a slideshow running on my home page and have been looking for a suitable script.

Goshawk

I am have installed the mod and I am using 1.3.9 , and I am having the same problem as Goshawk in the sense that all my images are lined up one ontop of another and are still with obvioulsy no animation? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Serious]

What do you get for an error message from the log ?

Not a darn thing.
All I get is " FAILED" across the top of the screen.