X-Slider How-To's
When I told my client I would migrate his slide shows from a legacy site, I grossly underestimated the amount of time it would take.
First of all, it was hard to find a slider app that would allow me to insert all of the native Weebly elements inside the image frame, versus on the image itself, which is what I needed to do to reproduce the original. Then I came upon Baamboo studios X-Slider, which offered all of the features I needed. However, it was not super-easy to use. It is a very rich app with lots of features -- along with a number of "Gotcha's" that had me re-building some of my sliders several times to get it right. In all I created 10 sliders with a total of 118 slides. I did all of my slider development for just one site, and used the same format for every instance. This precluded exploring all of the many options that this plugin has to offer.
Because it offers so much, it is also complex, and there is a lot to learn before it all goes perfectly smoothly. My impression is that the Weebly platform itself may be responsible for some of the "gotchas" that are part of the learning curve.
In the article I am offering below, I give instructions and tips that will save you from a lot of the struggle and effort I went through. I hope that you will appreciate it, and will show your appreciation by clicking on the PayPal button. The "Amount" field will be blank. You can enter the amount you would like to pay there. Perhaps, over time, this will make up for the many hours I was unable to bill on this project!
Note: to view a sample of the X-Slider slide show, go to rudo-mart.com and enter the passcode: 7645
First of all, it was hard to find a slider app that would allow me to insert all of the native Weebly elements inside the image frame, versus on the image itself, which is what I needed to do to reproduce the original. Then I came upon Baamboo studios X-Slider, which offered all of the features I needed. However, it was not super-easy to use. It is a very rich app with lots of features -- along with a number of "Gotcha's" that had me re-building some of my sliders several times to get it right. In all I created 10 sliders with a total of 118 slides. I did all of my slider development for just one site, and used the same format for every instance. This precluded exploring all of the many options that this plugin has to offer.
Because it offers so much, it is also complex, and there is a lot to learn before it all goes perfectly smoothly. My impression is that the Weebly platform itself may be responsible for some of the "gotchas" that are part of the learning curve.
In the article I am offering below, I give instructions and tips that will save you from a lot of the struggle and effort I went through. I hope that you will appreciate it, and will show your appreciation by clicking on the PayPal button. The "Amount" field will be blank. You can enter the amount you would like to pay there. Perhaps, over time, this will make up for the many hours I was unable to bill on this project!
Note: to view a sample of the X-Slider slide show, go to rudo-mart.com and enter the passcode: 7645