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tnd1000

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Hey there! I'm looking to build a slideshow for my site, and I was wondering what would be the best way to go about it. All I really need are the basic buttons (start, stop, forward, backward) and the capability to cycle through a LOT of pictures. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Hey, one way would be to use JavaScript. To get an idea of how that would look, check out the following:

<!DOCTYPE HTML><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>Slide Show</title><style type="text/css">body {text-align: center;margin: 0;padding: 0;} #imageContainer {min-height: 550px;background-color: lightblue; } a  {text-decoration: none;padding: 5px;color: #333;}</style> <script type="text/javascript"> var imgSlide;var pic = 0;window.onload = function (){ imgSlide = document.getElementById('img'); // preload imagesimages = new Array();images[0] = new Image();images[0].src = "waterfall-0.jpg";images[1] = new Image();images[1].src = "waterfall-1.jpg";images[2] = new Image();images[2].src = "waterfall-2.jpg";images[3] = new Image();images[3].src = "waterfall-3.png"; } function slide(){imgSlide.src = images[pic].src;if(pic < 3) // images.length - 1 can be used here{pic++;}else{pic = 0 }timer = setTimeout(slide, 5000);} function prev(){if(timer)stopSlide(); if(pic == 0){ pic = 3; imgSlide.src = images[pic].src;}else{pic--;imgSlide.src = images[pic].src;}} function next(){if(timer)stopSlide(); if(pic == 3){ pic = 0;imgSlide.src = images[pic].src;}else{pic++;imgSlide.src = images[pic].src;}  } function stopSlide(){clearTimeout(timer);}  </script></head> <body><div id="imageContainer"><img id="img" src="waterfall-0.jpg" alt="image" title="image"/></div><a href="JavaScript:slide()" title="Start">Start</a><a href="JavaScript:next()" title="Next">Next</a><a href="JavaScript:prev()" title="Previous">Previous</a><a href="JavaScript:stopSlide()" title="Stop">Stop</a> </body></html>

To try it out, just replace the images with your own images. You can use <input type="button" /> or <button type="button"></button> for the controls, but in this case I just used links.

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Man, you are awesome. I didn't expect you to actually build the thing, but thank you very much! I'll give it a try. :D -EDIT- It works great, and it's actually just what my client was looking for! I'll do a bit of tweaking and integration, and it'll be perfect. Can't quite thank you enough for your help.

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