anybody know of a simple widget for testimonials?

**EARTHPRINTS** · 03 July 2016, 10:24 PM

I basically want a resizeable photo widget that i can add 10-25 testimonials from customers.
i want it to scroll vertical.

i dont want the Numbers Boxes or Radio Buttons on the widget.

thank you in advanced!
Frank

i tried the widget in xara but all have Numbers Boxes or Radio Buttons on the widget.

**gwpriester** · 04 July 2016, 12:52 AM

Try doing a Google search and see if you can come up with a script for this.

And Acorn may have a solution for this. He usually does.

**Egg Bramhill** · 04 July 2016, 01:43 PM

You could try the Slidiron Accordian Slider.

See attached example.

One disadvantage is it will only take 6 slides.

**behzad** · 04 July 2016, 03:41 PM

I would put them all on one page like I did mine or display each testimonial beside the project and explain what services or how you helped the client.

**Acorn** · 04 July 2016, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by EARTHPRINTS

I basically want a resizeable photo widget that i can add 10-25 testimonials from customers.
i want it to scroll vertical.
i dont want the Numbers Boxes or Radio Buttons on the widget.
thank you in advanced!
Frank
i tried the widget in xara but all have Numbers Boxes or Radio Buttons on the widget.

Frank, to achieve total control what I would do is create a separate sub-site of Testimonials using a Vertical Supersite that are page-sized matched to something like Photo Text Panel 4 (NEW).
What you then do in the main site is to create a Placeholder widget "Embed a website" and change the source to the local sub-site index.htm., sizing it to the width of the Testimonials.

Each Testimonal entry is vertically resizeable without any problem. Horizontally would require changes to both the Testimonials entries and the main site Placeholder.

Depending on the height of the Placeholder, you will have a vertical scroll bar. It is totally steam-driven so the end user elects to scroll into the Testimonials.

Acorn

**Egg Bramhill** · 04 July 2016, 05:59 PM

Does XDPro 10 have Photo Text Panel 4 (NEW) Acorn?

**Acorn** · 04 July 2016, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Does XDPro 10 have Photo Text Panel 4 (NEW) Acorn?

In hindsight, probably no.
But any photo panel would work, e.g., bold_panel01.

Acorn

**EARTHPRINTS** · 05 July 2016, 03:23 PM

acorn,
thank you for your quick replies!

i am finding this really had to believe, such a simple task is so hard to achieve. lol!!!

i like your idea but im looking for something really simple.
i just tried creating animation in designerpro11 and had zero luck after 5hrs. thats crazy.
i did exactly what xara did on youtube and can not get it to work.

i tried text only....

just 2 testimonials
i want...

"Test 1" to display for 5 seconds than shut off

"Test 2" to display for 5 seconds than shut off

loop back to...

"Test 1" to display for 5 seconds than shut off

then i tried creating the text into a bitmap and i still could not get it to work.

i also tried it in 2 previous versions of pro. 9 & 10 just to check.

Click image for larger version.

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is flash or gif a bad option for web sites?

these two pics i just want to display for 5 seconds each and loop back to the top.

thank you in advanced for any reply.
frank

gary mentioned google scripts but not sure what to google.
i thought there was a page og gadgets and widgets but i can only find stuff for phones now, no websites unless its WordPress. does WordPress work?

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 July 2016, 03:59 PM

..is flash or gif a bad option for web sites?

EP,
Flash isn't an option these days. Gif's are fine, but remember they are image files so SE's can't read the text.

I don't know what the problem is you're having with the animations. It's easily do'able. Would you like me to create a video tutorial?

EDIT: Click to view the gif and wait it has a 5 second delay.

**EARTHPRINTS** · 05 July 2016, 06:06 PM

EGG,
thank you for your quick reply!
that's exactly what i want to do.
very simple! that way if i have new testimonials i can add them very quickly.
yes i did get it to work in gif. just not in flash. but you saif flash is no good anyway.
i dont really care about seo as this site is a company site.

do you know of a photo widget without the numbers or radio buttons?(see pic below)

that has a little more control of the transitions?

i have been using "Cycle 5" in pro11

but it has the numbers in top left