Slideshow 2 is an open source Mootools slideshow class for streaming and animating the presentation of images. It’s definitely one of the better looking slideshow’s out there. A very impressive look is given to your images in a much more professional manner. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like (without mootools of course)
You can choose from a variety of different effects of course which gives you some good flexibility on how you want it to end up looking. The cool thing is that you can input your slideshow via HTML with one simple line of code. The example they give is this:
new Slideshow('show', ['1.jpg', '2.jpg', '3.jpg'], { controller: true, hu: ‘images/’ });
Here are the features as listed in the blog article that featured this tool from webresourcesdepot.com:
- Dynamic resizing - Slideshow can accommodate any size presentation.
- Thumbnails - intelligent, auto-scrolling, tracking, etc.
- Full-featured controller - completely style-able with CSS.
- Animated captions - plain text or formatted with HTML.
- Fully accessible - Slideshow can be controlled with access keys.
- Automagic slideshows - create slideshows from existing HTML images.
- Varied hyperlinking options - allows for mashups with Lightbox, Slimbox, etc.
- CSS slide transitions - designed in stylesheets, not javascript,
allow for an infinite combination of effects (plus support for all
Robert Penner transitions). - Unobtrusive and degradable - Slideshow even functions with Javascript turned off!
So if you are looking for a cool javascript slideshow to add some spice to your website then try this one out. There is some good documentation to help you along the way in customizing it to fit your needs. Enjoy!
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