Editing Sliders

**ldofout** · 05 July 2017, 11:30 AM

Hi Apologies if this has been discussed before but I cannot find out what I need to know.

I currently use Webplus x8 as my website designer. In that you can download a slider and fully edit, replace photos and add text next to images. I have such a slider on a current site homepage. www.mcpf.co.uk

I have tried all sorts of ways to edit the importable sliders available but cannot seem to do what I want. I have resized an image to the size I want and replaced the photo but sometimes it works and other times it resizes back to the original size. The same happens with text as well. If I remove the original photo and place a new one in place, but all I get is the no link symbol (small cross in a box).

I have tried to just resize the original image and text but nothing happens.

Cannot work out if it the programme not able to do what I want, or the programme has bugs or I am missing a step when I try I edit.

I have looked at the slideshow widget but cannot see that I can resize an image and add text box.

Software is Xara webdesigner Premium 365 running on windows 7 IE version 11 and chrome

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 July 2017, 01:09 PM

Welcome to Talk Graphics Idofout.

I'll do a quick video shortly.

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 July 2017, 01:34 PM

Here you go:

**ldofout** · 06 July 2017, 12:08 PM

Thanks for taking the time to look at my question. But as you can see the image did not resize it merely filled the existing placeholder. I really want to be able to replicate the slider from webplus, as the text is really the important information I use it to advertise events and news for the members.

I tried 3 or 4 of the available widgets including the one you chose but no luck. But life is about compromises so perhaps this is one of those occassions

**Egg Bramhill** · 06 July 2017, 12:24 PM

Yes, the slider has a set W & H so you'll need to size your images to match.

**Egg Bramhill** · 06 July 2017, 04:12 PM

Hello again idofout. Would this rock your boat?

http://www.parkeston.com/idofout/

**ldofout** · 25 July 2017, 03:41 PM

Hi Been busy so only just come back to this question. Have looked at the link you sent but not sure what I am looking at! Is it supposed to change to another image much as it does on the current serif designed website. I have looked at all the alternatives ways to do this including setting each image and caption as a jpg in photoshop and importing it as an image into the basic widget programme but that didn't work either.

**Egg Bramhill** · 25 July 2017, 03:58 PM

Is it supposed to change to another image much as it does on the current serif designed website.

Yes, and it does. Can't you see the changing images?

**ldofout** · 25 July 2017, 04:25 PM

That's brilliant I perhaps wasn't patient enough before to see it changing. How did you do it

**Acorn** · 26 July 2017, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Yes, and it does. Can't you see the changing images?

In all fairness Egg, the first image only changed for me on a fast connection after 10 seconds and the others flexed round every 2 seconds thereafter. The overall page payload must be quite large so a load on demand approach might be needed especially when the Internet connection is relatively slow.

Acorn