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#173348

Hello,

1. I am confused about the intended use of the frontpage slideshow at ja_rave. What purpose has that feature when implemented (in demo version) without clickable links (leading to an artikel).

2. When I activate “read more” for the slideshow at backend the “read more text” is shown above the main text (instead of behind as usual). And I didn´t see how to link that “read more” suffix.

Regards,
Ruediger

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#436182

Hi Rüdiger

I’m not a Rave user but have looked into Slideshow quite a lot. Not sure if you are running 1.5 or 1.7 and as I don’t know this template I don’t know if some of the functions of SS may not be included but there is a tutorial for it here..

http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/userguide-ja-rave-template-for-joomla-1-5/

It shows how to set up the links and the read more..

It should solve both your questions.

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#436183

Hi Rüdiger

I’m not a Rave user but have looked into Slideshow quite a lot. Not sure if you are running 1.5 or 1.7 and as I don’t know this template I don’t know if some of the functions of SS may not be included but there is a tutorial for it here..

http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/userguide-ja-rave-template-for-joomla-1-5/

It shows how to set up the links and the read more..

It should solve both your questions.

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1. agepal

[agepal Friend agepalJoin date: January 2012Posts: 40Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 14]

#436204

Thank you and Grüezi in die Schweiz,

sorry I didn´t mention that my question was about the 1.7 template.

I read the tutorial already but – maybe I stand beside me – I dont see the purpose of the slideshow yet. Because I installed from quickstart I got the demo look and are able to scroll through the 4 images. But to what story or article should the images belong and isn´t it possible to implement a link within the slideshow or at the description below the images?

Within a template for an artist there may be a reason to just show some examples of pictures. But with a news oriented template like ja_rave I expected to have links iplemented in the slideshow at the default layout. Or do I think completely out of the box:confused:

Regards,
Ruediger

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#436209

Grüezi!

Most slideshows are there to attract readers and get their attention I think! 😉

Images come from an image folder. If you want to use images linked with an article then a better product would be something like ja_sidenews or newspro

With Slideshow you have bigger pictures and as I say the pictures come from an image folder

To link to an article for example with the more text……..

<h2 class=”contentheading”>Say hello to JA Rave</h2><p class=”article-slideshow”>It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters.</p>
<div class=”more”><a href=”#”>Read full article..</a></div> ………… HERE is where you can add your link with the <a href=”yourlink”>

The pictures can also link to anywhere you want Ruediger. That can be a story, an article, a picture gallery or an external link if you want it to.

The url can be an internal or external link or

target =”_blank”

hilft das?

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#436220

<em>@swissa 297788 wrote:</em><blockquote>Grüezi!

Most slideshows are there to attract readers and get their attention I think! ;)</blockquote>
Thats what I guessed too. But normaly even the “get attentian images” are linked in any way. Thats why I was wondering.

<blockquote>To link to an article for example with the more text……..

<h2 class=”contentheading”>Say hello to JA Rave</h2><p class=”article-slideshow”>It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters.</p>
<div class=”more”><a href=”#”>Read full article..</a></div> ………… HERE is where you can add your link with the <a href=”yourlink”></blockquote>

Ok, with those tags it should be working as I figured. Just thought such tags are already implemented in the default version or could be easily enabled or disabled at backend.

Hope I can manage the task now.
Thank You.

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