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Ethereal: Recreating the Demo - Slideshow Section

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Ethereal Demo for Joomla


Introduction

The Slideshow section is made up of one Slideshow particle. This position, once placed and set up in the Layout Manager makes it possible to assign Modules to it that appear on your site.

Settings used in our demo for each of these particles can be found below.

Section Settings

Field Setting
Layout Fullwidth
CSS Classes Blank
Tag Attributes Blank

Slideshow (Particle)

Particle Settings

Demo Header

Field Setting
Particle Name Slideshow
CSS Classes Blank
Title Blank
Slideshow Item 1 Name Slide 01
Slideshow Item 1 Image Custom
Slideshow Item 1 Text Creative
Slideshow Item 1 Description Blank
Slideshow Item 1 Button Text Blank
Slideshow Item 1 Button Link Blank
Slideshow Item 2 Name Slide 02
Slideshow Item 2 Image Custom
Slideshow Item 2 Text Elegant
Slideshow Item 2 Description Blank
Slideshow Item 2 Button Text Blank
Slideshow Item 2 Button Link Blank
Slideshow Item 3 Name Slide 03
Slideshow Item 3 Image Custom
Slideshow Item 3 Text Artistic
Slideshow Item 3 Description Blank
Slideshow Item 3 Button Text Blank
Slideshow Item 3 Button Link Blank

Block Settings

Demo Header

Field Setting
CSS ID Blank
CSS Classes flush
Variations Blank
Tag Attributes Blank
Block Size 100%

Alternative: RokSprocket

For folks that prefer RokSprocket to using a particle, we have included the instructions for creating this slideshow using RokSprocket below, as well.

The first thing you will want to do is add a Module Position particle to the layout manager, as pictured above.

Section Settings

Field Setting
Layout Fullwidth
CSS Classes Blank
Tag Attributes Blank

Module Position (slideshow)

Particle Settings

Field Setting
Particle Name Slideshow
Key slideshow-features
Chrome gantry

Block Settings

Field Setting
CSS ID Blank
CSS Classes flush
Variations Blank
Tag Attributes Blank
Block Size 100%

Assigned Module(s)

The slideshow module position is host to a single RokSprocket module.

We utilized the Simple Content Provider, linking each item in the RokSprocket module to an article. You can find examples of the Simple items used in this module in the Filtered Article List section below.

Details

Option Setting
Title Slideshow
Show Title Hide
Access Public
Position slideshow-features
Status Published
Content Provider Simple
Type Features

Filtered Article List

Item 1

Option Setting
Title Creative
Image Custom
Link None

Item 2

Option Setting
Title Elegant
Image Custom
Link None

Item 3

Option Setting
Title Artistic
Image Custom
Link None

Layout Options

Option Setting
Display Limit
Theme Slideshow
Article Titles Show
Article Text Hide
Preview Length
Strip HTML Tags Yes
Arrow Navigation Show
Pagination Hide
Animation Crossfade
Autoplay Disable
Autoplay Delay 5
Image Resize Disable
Default Title Default Article Title
Default Article Text Default Article Text
Default Article Image Default Article Image
Default Link Default Article Link

Advanced

Option Setting
Module Class Suffix

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