{"id":1148,"date":"2015-03-06T01:36:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.santarosawebsite.com\/websitedesign\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2015-03-06T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:53:31","slug":"adding-a-powerful-slider-to-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/adding-a-powerful-slider-to-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a powerful slider to your website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <strong>BWC<\/strong>, we love sliders (also known as slideshows). They have come a long way since the introduction of mobile devices. Now well coded sliders can work very well on smart phones and tablets alike.<\/p>\n<p>There are several elements to consider before adding a slider to your website:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Its location<\/strong>: Where do want to place it? Where should you be placing it? Homepage? Sub pages?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Its goal:<\/strong> What are you trying to accomplish with this new slider? Call-to-action or not? Create a feeling? Impress prospective clients? Sell products? Convey a specific message?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Combination of elements:<\/strong> Images only, images with videos,\u00a0 image and text combination &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Transition styles:<\/strong> Slides fading in and out, breaking into pieces, sliding (do you want to slide back to the beginning or stop) &#8230; There are many options to consider.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Speed of the slide transition:\u00a0 <\/strong>Typically you would want a faster pace for a younger audience and a slower transition between the different slides for a more mature target audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6) Design and styling:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Full with or defined width<\/p>\n<p>Thumbnails or no thumbnails<\/p>\n<p>Numbers or no numbers<\/p>\n<p>Clickable or not, ghost buttons &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Giving control to visitors or not: play, pause, forward &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Etc\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Play the video below to watch the full 15 minute-discussion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"petaluma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ctbJnYJ-UjI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At BWC, we love sliders (also known as slideshows). They have come a long way since the introduction of mobile devices. Now well coded sliders can work very well on smart phones and tablets alike. There are several elements to consider before adding a slider to your website: 1) Its location: Where do want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}