If you surf the web for any length of time, you’ll eventually notice that a very popular and very useful tool that many websites use is a featured content slider. This is useful in a variety of ways. Churches like to use it to attractively display their upcoming events, businesses like to use it to showcase their latest products, bloggers can highlight their latest or most popular posts, and artists can showcase their latest work. There are just a lot of useful applications for this. Two “real-world” examples I quickly found were Gateway’s website and AMD’s website.
Can’t wait? Here’s a preview of what we’ll be making.
This tutorial is thorough, so it might seem long at first, but once you get it, you’ll see how easy it is. Don’t be scared of the code either, it’s mostly copy and paste.
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