The JB Slideshow has been around for a while and was first featured in our May club template Helio. Since then its undergone several major reworkings under the bonnet to bring Joomla Bamboo club members a flexible, adaptible easy to use slideshow. The latest version is v2.5 and is a significant rewrite. The Slideshow would not be possible without Jquery, the Jquery Cycle plugin and the Jquery ScrollTo plugin.

Some of the features of the JB Slideshow include:

• Slide any number of images in a fading JQuery slideshow.
• Publish any number of news items in the scrolling news ticker.
• JQuery runs in no-conflict mode so that it wont conflict with any of your other javascripts.
• Images are loaded on the fly so which reduces page load significantly and avoids the end user seeing the images load first.
• The news ticker can be positioned anywhere on the slideshow using a top or left margin.

Whats new in v2.5?

V2.5 differs in that versions prior to this each images was entered separately.  This version pulls common images from the directory you specify in the module admin and loads them as they each get called.

• So in the version above we have the images being pulled from the images/stories directory.
• The first image in the series is simply called header.jpg.
• The three subsequent images are named header2.jpg, header3.jpg and header4.jpg.

Please note:

• The name of the first image does not require the file extension to be used.
• Each image must have the same file extension.
• You must have the correct number of images displayed otherwise the slideshow will fade to white.

Installation Instructions.

Do I need to include the JQuery library?

Most of our recent templates (From Helio onwards) use the Jquery library to create all of our shimmering Jquery effects. So if you are using Helio, Vision, Max Biz, Top Shop, New Media, Vision 2.0 or Nimbus then there is no need to include the Jquery library.

If you are using another template our catalogue prior to this or a template from another developer then chances are you will need to include the Jquery library.A quick way to determine if your template has Jquery is to load a page from your site in a browser and then view the source. You can do a quick search of the source for the words jQuery. If you find it then its highly probable that your Joomla template already includes it.

Do I need to include the Slideshow script?

The answer to this is similar to the previous one. If you are using a recent Joomla template from Joomla Bamboo then there is likely to be no need to include the Slideshow script - the nimbus template for instance gives you the option of including it from the template admin.

If you need to include the slideshow script then this can be done from within the module itself. However this option will mean that your site will not validate so in order to make your site xhtml valid then you need to set this option to no and then add the script reference to the module in the modules/mod_slideshow2/template/default.php file.

Do I need to include the css file?

Once again this will depend on the template you are using as some of our themes ship with the css required for the slideshow built in already. If your template doesnt already hold the code for the module then you can set this option to enabled or you can set it to disabled and then add the css rules found in the following file to the bottom of your template_css.css file.

Location for the CSS file for the Slideshow:   modules/mod_slideshow2/slideshow/slideshow.css.