I found all kinds of great scripts, fitting all kinds of design and functionality needs, but nothing had usable clickable images.  I was going crazy.  I started with rCarousel first, then realizing that clicking the image wasn’t possible (well, I found one person who made it work, but I couldn’t get their tweak to work).  Then I found jCarousel and a tutorial showing how to make the images clickable, but that was totally convoluted and I was starting to get frustrated and frankly, kinda pissed off.

Was I completely off base to think that I should be able to click on the images in the carousel?  Really, I don’t think so.  If anything, I would think this would be the default functionality, with the ability to turn it off.

Anyway, after taking a step back and putting it away over night (always a good idea when code is frustrating you) I realized I needed to do a little more research.  One unfortunate part of how Google indexes content and decides what is important is that good products and companies get buried under the loads of directories, social sites, blogs with link list content and forums.  Now, sometimes what I need is right on the first forum or blog and it’s great to get that personalized content.  But, sometimes you are looking for an actual product or company that fits your keywords and that can be difficult to find.

So after scouring through several “175 best jQuery carousel and slider plugin” blogs, I finally found this little gem.  Thank goodness.  Works great and the site is informative and laid out well.  They provided examples of all the ways to customize the script.

After all that battling and frustration, it took me five minutes to implement and another twenty to customize the css.  Awesome!

CarouFredSel

I created a WordPress theme from my original design. You can see that it looks identical beyond the minor improvements I made to the design. Almost any design can be directly converted to a WordPress theme. Of course, the more complex the design, the more complicated the conversion.

I have also added my resume and this blog functionality.

WordPress is an ideal platform for small businesses.  WordPress is a fully functional content management system that will allow you to make minor content updates to your own site.  It is very easy to use.  If you can use Microsoft Word, you can easily handle the WordPress content editing interface.

Using this type of system will save you time and money both up front in development costs and long term through only having to contact me to do more significant upgrade and maintenance activities.

Contact me and we can talk more about how WordPress or another custom solution can benefit your business.