Drupal 6 Simple Views Slideshow Setup In Aquia Marina

Create a slideshow with drupal 6 "Views" and "Views Slideshow" in Aquia Marina or for that case any other theme modules.

style.css add the following

/* Views Slideshow Styling
For the most part it will get it's styling from the theme
the only one you may need to add is the height and width style to
stop it from bouncing the theme up and down as different size
content fills it. Hence the need to control the content.
*/

/* CHANGE THE myslideshow to what ever your slideshow is called.
*/

/* Set the size of the slideshow box :
Its important if you have content with long and short text
if you don't set this your views-slide show will get bigger and smaller
as it auto fits the text. For styling this can make it consistent
*/
#block-views-myslideshow-block_1 {height: 200px;width: 300px;}


/* OPTIONAL STYLING
*/

/* Styling the title
*/
#block-views-myslideshow-block_1 .views-field-title a{font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;}

/* styling the body
*/
#block-views-myslideshow-block_1 .views-field-body {font-size: 14px;}

/* styling the number pager at the bottom
*/

/* This is the whole pager
*/
#views_myslideshow_singleframe_pager_1 {background-color: #666666;}

/* This is just the active number
*/
#block-views-myslideshow-block_1 .activeSlide{background-color: #000000;}

I will add the css to my website when the server comes back up....

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• drupal 6 slideshow
• how to
• create a slideshow
• views
• views slideshow

[phil30988]

Thanks for the video, one or two basic questions

Where did "cities and attractions" come from at 3:40 how did you create this?

Where did the slideshow type come from at around 5:40? to turn into a slideshow my installation doesn't have it. How do you create it?

[Digitalrecline]

@phil30988 Slideshow will show up in views if toy have installed the Views_Slideshow module as well as Views. The cities and attractions were another content type that I created. .youtube.com/watch?v=G8p0KyiPx­lk is the beginning video on how the content types were made.

[phil30988]

@Digitalrecline I have views slideshow installed and it doesn't show up. Trying to get views working is beyond me, and turning into a living nightmare I have advised my client and have had to let the contract go. Views are poorly documented, ctools are poorly documented. Nobody at Drupal seems to have a coherant logical view of their use.

Thanks for your response and good luck

[Digitalrecline]

@chrisyeoh Glad you got it going :-)

[chrisyeoh]

@Digitalrecline Thanks. Found the problem. Looks like I'm still using the older Views 2. Upgraded to Views 3 and it's there now.

[Digitalrecline]

@chrisyeoh Make sure that you have the libraries module from the Drupal.org site and the jquery.cycle library installed. If you open the slide_show module folder their is a read-me with the download links for the jquery.cycle script. I cant remember the name of it but there is also another thing in the views module area, that also has to be checked.

[chrisyeoh]

@Digitalrecline hi, thanks for the video. I too can't find the slideshow in the style options. And I checked that I've ticked the Views Slideshow module. Are there any other modules missing? I've ticked Views, Views Slideshow, Views Slideshow Cycle and View UI.

[Digitalrecline]

@Digitalrecline Make sure you Save the view since you can not see the changes after clicking update. (at least I couldn't)

Then refresh the browser.

[Digitalrecline]

@dennisterwel Go to Sitebuilding > Views

Go to the view created for the slideshow.

Click on Slideshow settings (wheel looking icon to the right).

Scroll ALL the way down and at the bottom you will see Internet Explorer Options.

Click to expand.

Choose False for ClearType. It even says "Some background issues could be fixed by setting this to false."

I left ClearType Background to False.

Click on Update.

[dennisterwel]

Hello, first thanks for the video.

On my site i have a grey back ground and a white for ground color. When I juse the slide show mij slideshow blok will be grey and it must be white this problem is only when you visit my site with IE. Can you tell me how to fix this problem.

Regards Dennis