April 2011

Showcase featured content

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 9, 2011

The Views Slideshow: Dynamic Display Block module is a views_slideshow plugin mainly used to showcase featured content at a prominent place on the frontpage of your Drupal site in an attractive way. A featured content slideshow can contain e.g.: New articles, Most popular content, New products, Portfolios, Videos, etc.

Other usages

  • Ubercart Products
  • Image Galleries
  • Video Galleries
  • Header Slideshows
  • Text sliders

Features

Features

Any content

With the views slideshow dynamic display block module you can show any content in a slideshow.

Theme layouts

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 9, 2011

The views slideshow ddblock module is supplemented with 6 free example themes at the moment.

The 6 free themes give examples of the possible pagers.

Example themes

  • upright10 - with number pager
  • upright20 - with prev/next pager
  • upright30 - with text pager
  • upright40 - with image pager
  • upright50 - with text/image pager
  • upright60 - with scrollable pager

Theme extensions

When themes have an extension, this means:

  • p - the theme has a portrait layout
  • l - the theme has a landscape layout
  • B - the theme is a basic theme
  • S - the theme has source image and stylesheet width for 460, 700 and 940 slideshow width

Settings for themes

  • Vertical or horizontal layout
  • Configurable slide and slidetext effects
  • Slide text configurable at top, left, bottom or right side depending on layout
  • Pager configurable on top, bottom, left and right depending on layout
  • Number pager, prev/next pager, text pager, image pager or image/text pager, scrollable pager to select slides

Support

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 9, 2011

Support for the views slideshow dynamic display block module is given on a daily basis. The issue queue of the module is the preferred place to post: support requests, feature request and bugs. Please give detailed descriptions of your issues, so we can help you better. Searching the issue queue (search on all issue) and the FAQ can give you direct answers.

Issue queue Tips

  • Search first (on all existing issues) before posting new issues.
  • Post one issue per post, so they are useful for other users.
  • Leave the assigned select box to: Unassigned, if you don't solve the issue yourself.
  • Post detailed information how to reproduce the issue, what behavior is expected and what happened instead.
  • There is no such thing as a bug report, support request, feature request that is too detailed.

For more info, see also the issue queue handbook

Documentation

Paid services

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 9, 2011

We provide paid services for assistance, consultancy, customizations and other Drupal related services.
For dynamic display block modules related projects please fill out the design requirements questionnaire at http://themes.myalbums.biz to create an efficient work-flow.

If your project is not dynamic display block modules related, please contact us on the contact form on the http://ddblock.myalbums.biz site.

How you can help?

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 9, 2011

Below are some examples how you can support the development of the slideshow module:

With your help, we can more effectively develop a useful views slideshow ddblock module for your Drupal site.

Thanks

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 9, 2011

Thank you for your interest in the Views slideshow: Dynamic display block module.
Hope the slideshows serve you well on your Drupal site!!!

Philip Blaauw
Phelsa Information Technology

The Need to Accurately Understand the PEOPLE in a Process

Contributed by alan on Friday, April 1, 2011

 

 

In many, if not most knowledge/office  worker processes, the people are analogous to the machines in a manufacturing or physical process. 

I've seen a lot of talk recently about the importance of attitude over other factors in employees and of course, this is nothing new.  When it comes to performance of people in the different processes that occur in business, a better more accurate and powerful way to look at it is suitability.  Suitability, typically encompasses the traits that underlie most of what determines a person's level of performance in a job or task.  These include a person's key personality traits and natural tendencies, work and task preferences, motivations, decision styles and attitudes.