Frontpage Slideshow [support thread]

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 https://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:oops:

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.

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.

CaptainBigPoop:

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

Hey everyone, this is my slidshow https://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!

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.

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.

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: https://www.gelcandlecompany.com

Thanks!

spawnie69:

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: https://www.gelcandlecompany.com

Thanks!

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

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.

Goshawk:

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.

windsurfer:

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.

Goshawk:

I have installed this MOD "out of the box" and renamed the files to represent my template and admin etc, also updated the database.

I created 3 entries (picture width 176px, height 250px) but they do not SLIDE, they apear underneath one another.

What have I done wrong?

Picture included

How can I get it to display as a slideshow?

Goshawk

I had the same problem. Make sure you don't have more than one jquery library file in the includes/templates/your_template/jscript folder.

Just use the jscript_1.7.1_jquery.js file ONLY then it should work.

mikestaps:

The position of the red stamp like image that shows up under the price (if you have that active...) is controlled by the price class in the css near the top of the define_main_page.
Mine was in the lower left when it showed up with the setting:

.price{
position: relative;
top: -35%;
left: 0;
}

Could you please tell me how to turn off the stamp? I didn't spot a control for it. Thanks...

You can turn of the stamp off by changing the code to :

.price{
position: relative;
top: -35%;
left: 0;
display: none;
}

I have 3 questions guys:

1. If you look at my slideshow at https://www.circlebooks.nl, you can see that the images are somehow pre loading, so you see them first in a row desplayed. Just for a second, and then it's normal in the slideshow. I don't see this hapening on other sites in this topic. Can someone help me out?

2. My website is in two languages so i would like to have two different slideshows because of images in different languages.. Can this be done?

3. How can i make the images non linking?

Konstantin:

You can turn of the stamp off by changing the code to :

.price{
position: relative;
top: -35%;
left: 0;
display: none;
}
I tried that but have just found all prices from my site disappeared.
Perhaps I'm editing the wrong file?
I just want that red stamp gone, not the website prices....

Hi there, I'm having the same problem as the others- with the images stacking on top of each other. I don't think I'm running any conflicting js, but??? I'm on the 1.5,I've check for javascript files in the front end of the store thru the developers tool kit and only have these two:

includes/general.js
includes/menu.js

here is my test site if you wanna look at it, see what up or what it looks like.... sounds like you maybe can see real easy where my error is by checking it out.
https://www.surfcloseouts.com

thanks!

I have a problem with none of the slides being displayed, I followed the instructions and couldn't find anything related to set up the slide in define main page or things like that so I assume it gets inserted by a script, for some reason the slideshow is not show showing, I just did a single image to test the looks, but nothing is shown, where do I have to look to fix this? I double checked all the paths and everything looks fine except the slide is not displayed ...

Found the problem myself there was a missing language file, that adds the content to the custom define_main_page, but I still have a problem, I modified the css and even if I changed the width the slider is truncated, I mean these lines >>> #slider li, #slider2 li{/*define width and height of list item (slide) entire slider area will adjust according to the parameters provided here */width:864px;height:340px;overflow:hidden;}
They suppose to define the width but they are not working

I have the same problem mentioned before by other members, that is the jquery script seems not to work properly, as the images are stacked on top of each other.
I am not very familiar with jquery, but there are several libraries under /libs if you want to check what it looks like just click the link below to my store.

I have this installed on 1.39h and it works great.
Can anyone tell me how to remove the navigation numerical images?
Not sure what to remove, I assume from the stylesheet_slider.css ?
Thanks

I had this plugin working great for months on 1.5.0.

But my finger got excited, and I erased some of the mainpage sourcecode somehow.
:(
So it was then corrupt-looking on website.

So I am trying to uninstall & re-install.

Uninstall only states "fail"
Install won't allow ... because slideshow table is still in the DB (because uninstall will not remove it)

Help please, lol.

Can someone give me the mainpage slideshow sourcecode, so I can cure it?
Thanks.