Creating an image rotator
Posted by mholmes on 18 Oct 2011 in Activity log
JS came by to help me work out how to create an image rotator for the History site. We have two images so far from T, and we created one with those images. The main points:
- New / UVic Blocks / Media Rotator
- Choose Body rather than Banner (banner is only used on e.g. faculty home pages).
- Add your images (they should be the same size).
- Ignore the navigation stuff.
There's one gotcha: each image has to be a link to somewhere. The only way we could make it work, since we didn't want our images to link anywhere in particular, was to put in a complete hard link to the eventual page location of the site home page (where the rotator would be housed), so it would reload its own page. No idea why you can't have an image rotator that simply shows images.
We also worked out a couple of other things, including how to put an events calendar harvester into the additional content area on the right.