Featured Content Slider is one of the best way to featured some of the best content from your blog to your users.....to add this just follow the following steps.....
- Go to your blogger > Template > Edit Html
- Just above the </head> paste this script
<script src="http://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
//Execute the slideShow
slideShow();
});
function slideShow() {
//Set the opacity of all images to 0
$('#gallery a').css({opacity: 0.0});
//Get the first image and display it (set it to full opacity)
$('#gallery a:first').css({opacity: 1.0});
//Set the caption background to semi-transparent
$('#gallery .caption').css({opacity: 0.7});
//Resize the width of the caption according to the image width
$('#gallery .caption').css({width: $('#gallery a').find('img').css('width')});
//Get the caption of the first image from REL attribute and display it
$('#gallery .content').html($('#gallery a:first').find('img').attr('rel'))
.animate({opacity: 0.7}, 400);
//Call the gallery function to run the slideshow, 6000 = change to next image after 6 seconds
setInterval('gallery()',6000);
}
function gallery() {
//if no IMGs have the show class, grab the first image
var current = ($('#gallery a.show')? $('#gallery a.show') : $('#gallery a:first'));
//Get next image, if it reached the end of the slideshow, rotate it back to the first image
var next = ((current.next().length) ? ((current.next().hasClass('caption'))? $('#gallery a:first') :current.next()) : $('#gallery a:first'));
//Get next image caption
var caption = next.find('img').attr('rel');
//Set the fade in effect for the next image, show class has higher z-index
next.css({opacity: 0.0})
.addClass('show')
.animate({opacity: 1.0}, 1000);
//Hide the current image
current.animate({opacity: 0.0}, 1000)
.removeClass('show');
//Set the opacity to 0 and height to 1px
$('#gallery .caption').animate({opacity: 0.0}, { queue:false, duration:50 }).animate({height: '1px'}, { queue:true, duration:300 });
//Animate the caption, opacity to 0.7 and heigth to 100px, a slide up effect
$('#gallery .caption').animate({opacity: 0.7},100 ).animate({height: '100px'},500 );
//Display the content
$('#gallery .content').html(caption);
}
</script>
- Now Save and after saving close that edit html window and click on Customise/Customize
- Click On Advance > Add CSS and paste the script from below
.clear{clear:both}
#gallery{position:relative;width:500px;height:400px}
#gallery a{float:left;position:absolute;}
#gallery a img{border:none;}
#gallery a.show{z-index:500}
#gallery .caption{z-index:600;background-color:#000;color:#ffffff;height:100px;width:100%;position:absolute;bottom:0;}
#gallery .caption .content{margin:5px}
#gallery .caption .content h3{margin:0;padding:0;color:#1DCCEF;}
- Click on Apply To Blog
- Now paste the script from below to where you want to add this widget example in template/posts/pages/gadget
<div id="gallery">
<a href="#" class="show">
<img src="IMAGE_URL" alt="Flowing Rock" width="580" height="360" title="" alt="" rel="<h3>TITLE 1</h3>Description 1 "/>
</a>
<a href="#">
<img src="IMAGE_URL" alt="Grass Blades" width="580" height="360" title="" alt="" rel="<h3>TITLE 2</h3>Description 2 "/>
</a>
<a href="#">
<img src="IMAGE_URL" alt="Ladybug" width="580" height="360" title="" alt="" rel="<h3>TITLE 3 3</h3>Description 3"/>
</a>
<a href="#">
<img src="IMAGE_URL" alt="Lightning" width="580" height="360" title="" alt="" rel="<h3>TITLE 4</h3>Description 4"/>
</a>
<div class="caption">
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;">
</div>
</div>
- Change IMAGE_URL with the url of your image and # with your post/page url and TITLE and Description with your content title and description and you're done :D
