Create gorgeous rotating banners with 0% nerdliness
Acquia's been working on ways to let people create really professional looking Drupal sites using only web-based tools. One of those tools is the Rotating Banner module which just had its first release this morning. What is a rotating banner? I'm talking about those pretty slideshow type things at the top of most sites' homepages these days. For a couple examples, check out http://acquia.com, http://kofiannanfoundation.org/, http://amnesty.org. This module was developed for Drupal Gardens by myself and James Elliot.
Core features:
- Various transition effects (fade, wipe, etc)
- A rich editor where you can pick a background image and add headlines and text areas with inline editing
- Pre-defined layouts for your text or a custom mode where you can drag and drop right where you want.
- Creates blocks, you can make a bunch of them. Put them in sidebars, the header, etc.
- Can be a static size, or will grow to the size of your largest / smallest image or the size of the region you put it in automatically!
- Controls for switching between slides, or auto transition
Demo (click to view on YouTube):
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Interesting article but you
Interesting article but you should really change your font user for normal text (feels good for titles though)
+1
+1
Agreed
This site is EXTREMELY hard to read.
great mod
Great Module, thanks for tutorial.
Thanks! I'm glad you like
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Create a http://drupalgardens.com account and make your own site w/ a banner, would love to see how people use it in the wild!
Best,
Jacob
just what we need!
a 27th module to do the same thing! I'm glad aquia didn't help make any existing modules better!
Please read before writing
Hello Anonymous heckler!
I mention there are many other better solutions in this blog post, and in the video, AND if you had bothered to visit the project page, you would have seen this at the top:
There are lots of other really good flexible solutions out there that may be more what you're looking for. This module is really focused on the usability and total control while creating banners. Here's a summary of why we built it
I suggest you take a look at those links if you want to actually understand why we did it.
Thanks,
Jacob
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also please fix your planet feed it is displaying twice
Is this module just for Drupal 7?
Great module by the way. I was just wondering if there is a version of this module for Drupal 6? Or is there anything just like it? Thanks!
Rotating Banner for Drupal 6?
hey! congratulations.
i was wondering exactly the same! is this module available for drupal 6???
or is there anything similar to this one???
thanx!
Strange behaviour on exported site
I also give my two cents for D6 version, however that could be unlikely. But consider that module is really easy and intuitive and D7 won't be production ready at least 6 months or even year for those that are heavy reliant on some modules.
Also, I exported a site from Drupalgardens, got it to work on Dreamhost (but only after I had
chmod -R 755 *) and now I have some strange behaviour: I could not change Title or Text and if I do open Rotating banner admin, I have no settings remembered (therefore, subsection of remembering Title or Text is also forgotten) although if I set size and other banner settings they will be remembered but not retrieved next time when I choose to edit settings.Have you any clue how could that be?
error when uploading images
this looks like a good solution for what i want. i have installed the module and all other required modules, but when i am creating a rotating banner, it doesn't show the white preview box where we add new background images. and when i try to add images, they don't save into the library, and it shows me a red error box that tells me "You must select a background image." any help is appreciated. Thanks
Okay, thanks.
Okay, thanks.
Good job, jacob!!! This is
Good job, jacob!!! This is one of the most important of all the modules (it's very easy to use, nice jquery effects, 5,6 clicks to made it operational, but it has a few bugs). Why don't you include it in DC7X pledge???
Will you release a new version when Drupal 7 final will be release???
Others say that are others good option for this rotating banner, i doubt it, there is no one more user-friendly than this.
Keep up the good work!!!!
Thanks! nice to hear you use
Thanks! nice to hear you use it. I know we need to clean up some stuff, as Drupal core has rolled along we haven't updated it as well as we should... file some patches! :)
Great Job!
Jacob:
Don't listen to the "hecklers"; let them develop a module for themselves. I like choice, especially when it's a choice between kick-ass modules..Keep up the good work, I hope you guys decide to keep supporting it.
Suggestion for Drupal theme development
Would be nice to have interactive themes that allow users to use their own photographs and then integrate them into a theme or a part of a theme. One step beyond that would be short clips or movies that could play as a part of a theme. I know space is an issue but I think if you get it to work it will pay out for you.
Hi Jacob -
Hi Jacob -
I think your module fits within what my department needs as we slowly incorporate Drupal 7. Your YouTube video was really nice, easy and clear to understand. Thanks for doing a video. It helps someone like me who is new to Drupal understand how it works.
Question: When I installed the module and start using it this error shows up...
sites/all/modules/rotating_banner/rotating_banner.module on line 241
Is there something I did wrong in my installation. I installed your module, media and file entity as per requested. Is there something else I'm supposed to be doing.
If there is any suggestions that you have, I'm totally open. Thanks.
Leigh
This looks like exactly what
This looks like exactly what I need, but I must be missing something. I install it, and the necessary prerequisite modules. But nothing shows up for a "Create Rotating Slideshow" block. I've looked around and can't find anything else that works for Drupal 7 that is as nearly as good as this that I can get to work. If you have any ideas, please help.
Tim Bertrand
[ DELETED for being completely off topic and negative bordering on spam ]. I try to keep ym blog free of censorship, you can see the replies which followed this comment. If you are interested in the original comment, please contact me.
Hi Burt,
Hi Burt,
I try to keep my blog "censorship" free which is why I'm leaving your comment up there, but it is really not at all related to the topic so I might delete it for that reason. Also, Tim is a friend of mine and I don't find him to be overly arrogant (he is a BD guy, so there is always a hint of that cockiness, but less than most). I'm sorry you had a negative interaction. I assure you, we at Acquia are very proud of our part in helping Drupal and the community behind it become the dominant CMS in the market. But we also know we still have a long way to go and are not beyond criticism.
Burt
Hello Burt,
I have only been to one show in the last 5 months, and it was a Government show. Therefore, I am incredibly confused....perhaps you met someone else from Acquia? These are actually two words I have never been called in my entire career, and this quite upsets me.
Next, I have a large number of friends who work at AWS, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for them and the entire AWS organization.
Since I hold this very seriously, I suggest you contact me directly so we can chat about this --is tim.bertrand@acquia.com
Thank you,
Tim
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