It seems like every website/webpage has a slider these days, so I also jumped on the bandwagon. [grin]  It is an option for a nice simple intro page.  And the Home Page is the most difficult to design…or I should say “difficult to decide.”  Almost anything could work, but at the same time I want something that is representative of my work, and reflects a layer of my personality, and graphically appealing, and captivating yet not too “loud,” and assertive but modest…and…and….

D is a web developer/coder, and he often expresses his frustrations with his clients’ endless demands for their slider.  All it is just a few images that you can set to auto play or rotate on manual clicks.  But some how clients never seem to satisfy with their own slider, even if it is completely custom-built.  Things always look better on someone else’s site.  Or the slider works in most browsers except one.  Or it doesn’t scale down properly when view on a mobile device.  Always something!

After experimenting with a few, I am quite satisfied with the EasyRotator plugin I found for WordPress.  It is 90% perfect.  The -10% is because I can’t get the caption to work, and I am not sure if it’s my WP theme breaking it, or because I have the free version of the plugin.  But no worries, I can work around the captions–I would add them to the images themselves.  For what it can do, and at zero cost, I am pretty happy with it.

The above rambling seemed so trivial and inconsequential in some respect, but after working on a little bit of web development in the past months, I found new appreciation and satisfaction in these small technological breakthroughs.

Does the perfect slider exists?