rotating news banners - Post ID 166878

User 2270889 Photo


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I am new to all this stuff.

I want to create a rotating banner that has 3 or 4 different stories to share. Each banner would have an image or video and some words that would allow the user to click on it to go to a page with more information and then every 5 seconds or so the next banner comes up and then these just rotate in a loop.

Any thoughts on which Coffeecup tools would help create something like this.

Cheers
User 364143 Photo


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FireStarter and VSD would work for this.

http://www.coffeecup.com/designer/
http://www.coffeecup.com/firestarter/
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User 2270889 Photo


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Thanks Tomalicious.

What I dont understand is how do I create the invidiual banners and place them into the firestarter file so all of that can be loaded into the VSD page I have created. Are you able to assist on what the steps are to create it.

Cheers
User 364143 Photo


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The banners will be made within Firestarter, you don't insert a banner. You can use image and text that make up a banner that are hotlinks to a page. Basically you insert all the text and images and have them appear and disappear at will on the time line and assign a hot spot for each. I don't use Firestarter but I have checked it out.
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User 2142112 Photo


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I actually did it using Photo Gallery. I just created images for use as slides rather than photos and then created links (usually to other pages within my site or PDF's) for those individual slides.
User 225748 Photo


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Photo Gallery? Interesting, I'm going to try that.
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