Wednesday 11 June 2014

Creating a slideshow

For my website i added an image gallery of the list of animals i talk about. Adding an image gallery was quite complicated especially trying to find a helpful tutorial that was responsive, simple and didn't require me to enter my debit card details to watch the full video!

Luckily i found a website called GitHub which is an open source website where people will share their codes for other viewers to use and help improve on. For me this was very handy as I did not know how jQuery works so i needed to find other resources that showed me how to do it. The slideshow i found was a full screen responsive slideshow with buttons to let the user change image manually rather than a automatic transition between slides. On my previous website layout i did use a slideshow for my home page, however it was a free download and the images had a watermark over the top of them when i create the slider, i didn't think this looked professional so i decided to look for a different slideshow code where there wasn't a watermark.







As you can see my slider is a full screen and is very simply styled with just two buttons and the images. I think this is the best style as it has everything essential you need for a slideshow, no fancy over the top animations between images or borders.


Again for the Mobile device version, the slideshow is 100% width across the screen so it fits the viewer window. The image quality does not decrease and i think that the slideshow is still accessible from a mobile view as the buttons are still a size where you would be able to tap on the arrows to view the slideshow.

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