redSLIDER Setup / Usage

Firsts Steps

The first screen of redSLIDER is the Dashboard, from there you are able to go to any place in redSLIDER component

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For using redSLIDER you will need to learn about the three main concepts:  galleries, slides and templates.

A  Gallery is a container of slides. The Galleries can be loaded by the Joomla Modules and placed anywhere in your website.

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Slides are each of the images or videos that you want to show in a Gallery

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The  Templates are the entity in redSLIDER that takes care about how you distribute the content of a slide

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Using the installed  demo data you can easily see redSLIDER in action in your website with just a few steps. First go to the Joomla Module Manager:

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Click on the redSLIDER module:

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Once into the Module configuration select the Sample Gallery provided with the redSLIDER package:

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In the right side of the screen select a position in the template (if your are using the default template of Joomla 3 called Protostar, select the "Banner" position)

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Right behind the position you will find the publish/unpublish selector. Please make sure you publish the module:

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Finally, go to the  Menu Assignment tab and select the option on all pages

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Now go to your website, you should be able to see redSLIDER in action:

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