Rotating Flash and Corresponding text...

By ppotter - February 19, 2011

Hi, I did a brief search through your site and didn't find this kind of plug-in, does something like this exist? - Scrolling Flash images that correspond with text that goes with each individual image in the scrolling flash. The flash is capable of playback, stop, play and the viewer can pick a page to go to. AND, the corresponding text would be editable by the client. Alike to the flash rotating doctors on this site:
http://www.nvoscaz.com/index.html

Re: [ppotter] Rotating Flash and Corresponding text...

By Chris - February 19, 2011

Hi ppotter,

CMS Builder can drive slideshows like that without a plugin, with the text and images editable by your client. From looking at the source, the slideshow on the right is a JavaScript widget called Noobslide.

There are lots of gorgeous JavaScript and Flash widgets that you can integrate into your site. Most of them are free, and most of them can be driven with CMS Builder. If you find one that can't be driven by CMS Builder, you can probably find something very similar which can.

Here's how to integrate a widget, once you've decided which one you want to use:

1. Build a working example page with the widget, but without your CMS Builder content (just drop in fake content for now.)

2. Build a CMS Builder viewer page to generate the real content that you want to put in the widget, but without the widget (i.e. a plain, boring-looking list page is perfect.)

3. Finally, integrate the two pages. That last step can sometimes require some tricky PHP, but we're always here to help in the forums. If you can provide us with the source code for the first two pages above, we can usually come up with this third page in no time!

From there, you can style up the final page, or even integrate it into another of your pages with more widgets!

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Chris

Re: [Chris] Rotating Flash and Corresponding text...

By ppotter - February 21, 2011

Thanks! I looked up Noobslide and found a 'how to' on it.

I'm not sure where to post this next question. I'm new to Interactive Tools and am building a site that will then need CMS Builder in certain places where the client will edit content. I've made a Template of the homepage in Dreamweaver and then an index.html page from that template. I'm afraid I don't know .php at all. Is this the right way to be building pages for you all? I'm not really sure of the process. Maybe you have a pdf guide I should follow?