Automate homepage images and text with module - TRAC

[ed]

atm it's a handmade bodge - need to enable admin users to upload new images and edit text without coding requirement. Laura knows of module?

[laura]

It's a cck type not a module as such. Will liaise with Jim whats needed or can do.

[jim]

There are 4 parts to this:

1. a new content type that allows titles, blurbs and images to be entered.
2. a new view that selects these nodes - only published ones to allow easy filtering
3. the views_slideshow module and jquery.cycle library that allows nice slideshow/fades/whatevers based on a view.
4. (possibly) some CSS wrangling to make it look right.

I've used the above several times, most recently on my 'D7 quickie' site ​http://www.demolitionandsalvage.co.uk/

The needed parts are in now in SVN.

[ed]

deadline 24/10

[jim]

1. New CT "Slideshow frame" added, representing one single frame of the slideshow.
2. Fields: Title, Blurb (short plain text), Link, Image
3. Perms: admins & editors can create, publish and edit slideshow frames.
4. Image preset set so images will be auto-sized/cropped to 600x300, unless already that size -- in other words, the system will handle too big images and reject too small ones. If editors want control over the crop, they need to do that before uploading it.
5. New "Homepage slideshow" nodequeue added to allow selection and ordering of slides, currently a max of 7 is set.
6. Slideshow view added, classes re-used to style it up.

Done as far as I can see...