Prerequisites for this module: Your pictures for your gallery are stored in a folder within your images folder of your joomla installation. You can use either a ftp client or the standard joomla media upload component.
Basic options
jQuery and the gallery script will be included automatically if needed.
First, select whether the CSS file should be included in the frontend.
Next, choose the language for the gallery, and rtl (right to left support).
Picture options
First, pick the folder where your images for the gallery are being stored.
Then enter the width and height for the thumbnail picture, the original pictures will be converted to this format automatically when the gallery will be displayed for the first time in the frontend.
The thumbnail pictures can be ordered either ascending, descending or random, select your option here.
Next, choose the background color and the transparency, transparency is being displayed in %, eg 50% transparent.
If you want to preload the original pictures for your gallery, select yes and choose the number of pictures to preload.
Select yes on autostart to automatically start the slideshow when clicking a thumbnail. The next option controls looping of the slideshow, ie it will start over when the last picture has been displayed.
Next, set the display time, animation duration for the fade effect and the width of the border for the slideshow.
Options for the controls
Here you can define whether you want to display the prv/next buttons, how long they should be displayed, whether the controls should be displayed and their display duration.
Select the respective options according to your gallery design.
Menu options
Here you can edit your menu options, whether the menu should be displayed and automatically hidden, background color and menu transparency.
Select the respective options according to your gallery design.
Info options
In the last section, you can select if and how the information elements are being displayed.
You can edit background color, transparency and auto hide of the info elements, additionally the position and duration can be set.
New Feature from V1.4.0:
From Version 1.4.0, also video from popular video platforms such as youtube, vimeo or hulu can be displayed.
For this to work, all you have to do is to create a text file with the same name as the thumbnail picture in your gallery folder.
Example:
Your thumbnail image is called video.jpg and is already uploaded. Now you can create a text file named video.txt, its content contains the URL to your video on e.g. youtube. Now browse to the frontend and convnce yourself of the desired result.
