Christmas Break

is finally here! Yeah. Two weeks off.

Det finns inga ord för det, på det här jävla språket

Front Page Slide show for Drupal using Views Slideshow

After weeks of research into how to create a dynamic slide show with thumbnails as navigation I finally found a module for Drupal that seems to do what I need it to. Enter Views Slideshow. Using views I fairly easily set up a slide show for my front page, using thumbnails as navigation. One issue that I've run into is that for some reason when being logged in I cannot see the navigation of the slide show. This caused a bit of head scratching until I just logged out and saw that things actually were working. The look and feel of the thing will take some CSS tweaking but at least I've finally found a working solution. If a module is integrated with Views that is certainly a big plus, seeing that this is the direction things are heading with Drupal.

Other modules I looked at:
Views Carousel - Really cool but not quite what I was looking for. Here is an excellent video podcast from Mustardseed Media
Quick Tabs - Neat module but it did not seem to support thumbnail navigation, at least not out of the box.

Considering the time and research spent on this I do support the effort to consolidate and improve the multitude of modules offering some kind of rotator or slide show functionality. For a good starting point see http://drupal.org/node/418616