Joomla Content Carousel Module
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Product Guide
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Product Features - mmCarousel
Rendering Options
mmCarousel utilizes Joomla's ability to organize content into sections and categories. Content can be displayed dynamically into mmCarousel simply by selecting the desired rendering option.
There are two available options for rendering content into mmCarousel:
- Option 1: Render mmCarousel with a slide for each article in the nominated category
- Option 2: Render mmCarousel with each slide cotaining x articles from the categories in the nominated section. So there will be one slide for each category (Not available for Joomla 1.7 version)
Parameters - Option 1
- Select Category [Select]
- Ordering [Select]
- Show Article Title [No/Yes]
Parameters - Option 2 (Not available for Joomla 1.7 version)
- Select Section [Select]
- Category Order [Select]
- Primary Order [Hide/Show]
- Category Title [Hide/Show]
- Category Description [Hide/Show]
- Category Description Image [Hide/Show]
- Intro Text [Hide/Show]
Global Parameters - Regardless of Option
- Linked Titles [No/Yes]
- Read More Link [Hide/Show]
- Author Names [Hide/Show]
- Created Date and Time [Hide/Show]
- Modified Date and Time [Hide/Show]
The flexibility of selecting the desired rendering option and being able to hide/show article parameters within mmCarousel allows you to have more power and control.
Multiple Skins
The modern and professionally designed skins that come with mmCarousel will no doubt enhance any website that it is used on. It is also very easy to tweak or change the skins accordingly to match your current website branding and theme.
There are 4 skins that come out of the box:
- Horizontal-White
- Horizontal-Black
- Vertical-White
- Vertical-Black
Color Options:
- Color [black/red/green/purple/pink/blue/navy/yellow/orange
Changing the colors of the button arrow links and read more icon and text is easy with the preset options available in the module parameters.
For those of you who are familiar with coding in CSS and HTML then of course you can create your own skin and css styles, simply turn off the option to "Include CSS" and you can create your own masterpiece!
Flexible Parameters
In combination with selecting your desired skin and color you also have the flexibility of changing the carousel width, height, scroll options and button width.
This flexibility will enable you to implement mmCarousel into any website and will give you the power to control how the content is framed.
Advanced Parameters
- Carousel Width [specify (pixels)]
- Carousel Height [specify (pixels)]
- Scroll Content [No/Yes]
- Custom Scrollbars [No/Yes]
- Button Width [specify (pixels)]
- Truncate After [specify (number of characters)]
- Split Title On [specify (characters)]
The options to control the number of characters to display on the button is also available by using the "Truncate After" parameter.
You can also specify a second line of words and characters by using the "Split TItle On" parameter. This will allow you to control what words go on the top line and the second line and the treatment of the font is slightly different to simulate heading importance.
Animation Options
With mmCarousel you have the power to configure an array of animation and transition options on both content and the controls.
You also have the option to make mmCarousel automatically play onload or if you prefer your content not to be rotating and causing any distractions then set it to manual it's that easy!
With the many possible combination of animation options you can achieve different effects for multiple carousels on multiple pages.
Animation of Content
- Animation Type [Scroll/Fade/FadeNScroll] (Fade not available for Joomla 1.7 version)
- Animation Direction [Left/Top]
- Animation Transition [Linear/Quatdratic/Cubic/Quartic/Quintic/Sinusoida/Exponential/Circular/Bouncing/Back/Elastic]
- Animation Ease [No ease/easeIn/easeOut/easeInOut]
- Animation Duration [Specify (milliseconds)]
Animation of Controls
- Control Animation Transition[Linear/Quatdratic/Cubic/Quartic/Quintic/Sinusoida/Exponential/Circular/Bouncing/Back/Elastic]
- Control Animation Ease [No ease/easeIn/easeOut/easeInOut]
- Control Animation Duration [Specify (milliseconds)]
Rotation Options
- Rotation Type [Manual/Auto]
- Rotation Interval [Specify (milliseconds)]
With the many possible combination of animation options, you can achieve different effects for multiple carousels on multiple pages.
Professional Design
The professional design of mmCarousel will enhance any website that it is used on. The module will provide the most modern look for framing any content on your website.
Design Features such as:
- Previous and Next Arrows - Color changable left and right arrows which has opacity and fade treatment to give that elegant effect on the control bar.
- Control Styling - Gradient effect to give that touch of three dimentional texture to the control panel.
- Background Gradients - Effective background gradients to fill out the content area no matter the size of the content.
- Read More Link - Even the read more link has been given some treatment to get a more modern look and feel to your usually average read more link.
- Modern Scroller - Rounded and custom styled scroller to add that final touch to a very professionally designed skin
Unlimited Carousels
Because mmCarousel is a module you can duplicate the module and create as many content carousels as you wish.
Each mmCarousel can also potentially have an unlimited amount of articles and categories loaded depending on the options you select and your article section and category grouping.
mmCarousel also comes with a "Content Plugin" allowing you to embed any carousel within any article content. This effecively gives you the power to present your carousel anywhere you wish!
