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March.29.2013
This guide is intended for
SJ Zoo Slideshow II - Joomla! Module
When you buy the module the first time, you will have the latest version. After the first release, we will update this module regularly, then please check newer versions in
here
REQUIREMENTS
1. Joomla! v1.7.x and Joomla! 2.5.x latest stable versions are highly recommended.
INSTALLATION
1. Prepare your module package (zip file; please UNZIP first if it is indicated in the file name)
2. All steps are in administrator of Joomla!:
- In your Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager
In this page, click Browse, select module package.
- Then click Upload & Install
- Please wait for module being installed, usually within several seconds
- Now go to Extensions -> Module Manager, click Select Type box and choose the module you have installed
- Then click the module listed below to configure it as SETTINGS part hereafter
SETTINGS
1. This module with sample layout is below:
- Category Title: Title of category showing, configured under Categories Options
- Category image: This is the first image in the description of category
2. The parameters are divided up into the following areas:
- General Settings
- Title Options and Link Options
- Image Options
- Theme and Effect Options
- Advanced Options
GENERAL SETTINGS
- Module Class Suffix - Allow you to choose another CSS class that suits your template. Please refer more here
- Zoo application - Allow to choose one of 2 applications available: Page Application OR Blog Application
- Zoo categories - Choose the source of category that is used with this module
- Source filter - Allow to show items that meet some factors:
- All Items
- None Featured Items
- Only Featured Items
- Sort order by - Select a field which you would like Items to be ordered by:
- Recently add
- Most views
- Recently modified
- Hits
- Title
- Random
- Width Module - Allow you to change width of module. Unit is "px"
- The Total Amount of Articles - Allow to set number of items which you want to show in the module
- Item Number Per Page - Allow to set number of items per page which you want to show in per page
- Auto play - Allow you to set autoplay for slideshow
TITLE OPTIONS AND LINK OPTIONS
- Max Length of Title - The max number of characters in title article which can be showed
- Open Link
- Same window: Open the link in the same window
- New window: Open the link in the new window
- Show Main Description - Show/hide main description
- Link for image - Enable/Disable link for image
- Show Normal Description - Show/hide normal description
- Show Normal Title - Show/hide normal title
- Show Read More - Show/hide Read More
- Show Buttons - Support 3 functions to show Buttons:
- Read More Text - Allow you to alter the text for Read more...
- Max Length of Normal Description - The max number of characters in normal description which can be showed
- Max Length of Main Description - The max number of characters in main description which can be showed
- Custom URL - This param allows you to customize the link of each item. If you do not want to go to the detail page of item, you can change the link to another.
IMAGE OPTIONS
- Show Main Image - Show/hide main image
- Show Normal Image - Show/hide normal image
- Large Thumbnail Width/Height - Allow you to set the width/height of the large thumbnail
- Large Small Thumbnail Width/Height - Allow you to set the width/height of the small thumbnail
- Thumbnail Background Color - Allow to set the color of image background
- Thumbnail Mode - Allow you to choose the mode of thumbnail resizing
- None
- Center
- Fill
- Fit
- Stretch
THEME and EFFECT OPTIONS
- Select Theme - Please change theme which you want to show. We support 5 themes for your module.
- Effect Module - Support 25 effects for your site
- Stop when hover - Allow you to stop slide when being hovered OR not
- Slideshow speed - The time to move to next article
- Time speed - The time to run effect
- Normal Description Color - Allow to change color of normal description
- Normal Description Active Color - Allow to change color of normal description
- Main Background Opacity - You can change the light and dark of opacity main background. The dark will increase from 0 to 1
- Normal Background - Allow to change color of normal background
- Normal Active Background - Allow to change color of normal active background
- Title Color - Allow to set color of article title
- Title Active Color - Allow to set color of active color
- Intro text - The content to show at the top of module
- Footer text - The content to show at the end of module
ADVANCED OPTIONS
- Media Elements - Allow to set which elements of HTML which images can be fetched from
- Description Elements - Allow to set which elements of HTML which description can be fetched from
- Cache
- Use Global: Turn on caching
- No Caching: Turn off caching
- Include Jquery - Allow to include jQuery lib OR not
- Cache Times - The time to cache
