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Welcome to my concise website slider guide.
If you want to know:
Then you’ve come to the right place.
Let’s get started.
Sliders look slick, sure.
But they’re not always a good idea. In fact, they often do more harm than good.
Yoast has a solid article summarizing a number of studies on sliders and their disadvantages.
Among them:
With that in mind, make sure you’ve thought things through and have a good reason for using a slider on your website, especially if it’s a website for your online business.
If you’re a freelancer building a portfolio website, instead of adding a slider to your homepage, your time will likely be better spent on activities such as:
If you still want to go ahead and add a slider to your website, keep reading.
We’ll talk about how to build your own slider in the next section, but let’s first see if we can save you a lot of time and effort.
The key question to ask yourself is this:
“What platform is my website built on?”
If so:
All of the above have built-in slider functionality – no need to create your own slider from scratch.
Just search their documentation / help section for info on how to add a slider to your website.
Assuming none of the above applies to you, it may make sense to “roll your own” slider.
This doesn’t mean you need to code everything from scratch.
Instead, let’s look at some jQuery slider plugins that can be installed on pretty much any website.
jQuery remains one of the most popular JavaScript framerworks and there’s a good chance you’re already using it on your website.
If you’re using a different JavaScript framework, skip the rest of this article and search online for a slider plugin built using that framework.
Coda-Slider was a jQuery plugin I created back in 2007, allowing you to easily add a nice-looking slider to your website.
After a few years the code became outdated and I had little interest in updating it, so I took the project offline.
That’s it.
Happy sliding 🕺