Yesterday’s post about Backstretch, a jQuery plug-in that dynamically-resizes your background image, got me thinking more about the slideshow options. Backstretch could be easily configured to a slideshow, but lacked some extra creative effects you would want if you implemented the slideshow option.
If you want your background image to change or implement a dynamically-sized slideshow, bgStretcher II is what you’ll want to try:
bgStretcher II
As the web is viewed on multiple screen sizes and mobile devices, tools like this are awesome.
bgStretcher II is easy to setup and has plenty of creative options:
- Speed
- Transition Effects
- Slide Direction
- Prev & Next Selectors
- Anchoring
- Preload
- More!
I find it curious you can initialize the plugin for custom DIV use. This would be good if you wanted to draw on bgStretcher II for a slideshow.
Also, with the ability to implement the Prev and Next selectors, you could use bgStretcher II to setup a photography demo reel. Drop in some hi-res images, and the demo reel would dynamically fit fullscreen no matter the size of screen.
There’s a lot of potential and flexibility with some creative bits of code and bgStretcher II.
Larry Prater says
Eric, is there some software available, or app, for Mac, that builds web pages but allows the background of each page to be a slideshow? I have searched a lot, but have not yet found this. Thanks. Larry
Eric Dye says
What are you building your website on? There’s probably a WordPress plugin for it, while at the same time, there’s probably a Javascript plugin that would do the same, too.
Larry Prater says
Thanks for your prompt reply. I am so ignorant about the internet, I really need some software program or app that includes the ability to use a slideshow as the background. I don’t think I am really up to adding plugins to other programs. I was just hoping there was already some program or app available that would make this so easy that even I could do it. Thanks. Larry Prater
Eric Dye says
Yeah, sorry, man. :-/