Your website might have some cool pictures that you want to show on
your opening page. If it's just one or two, you'd just put them on there
as fixed images, but sometimes you have more than that. Rather than
choose just the best one, you might arrange to have all of them shown,
one at a time, in what's called a slideshow
or carousel
. As with many of our JavaScript applications, there
are many examples, plugins and tutorials on the web that do the job. Our
implementation is simpler and less sophisticated than those, but we
think it's good enough.
This will just be a small example, with just four slides, with a new
image sliding into place every four seconds:
Use view source
on this page to see exactly how we did
it.
See the reading on carousels for more explanation.