[king213]

Hi all.

I'd like to position a simple carousel on my existing website which is created using xhtml and css. I would like my website to still validate correctly after adding the carousel.

I've looked around at various ways of adding a carousel and very much like the jCarousel and iCarousel type layouts that i've seen.

http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/

http://zendold.lojco...#selflink_usage

Firstly, not knowing hardly anything about how to write javascript other than how to include its effects onto my webpage, can anyone explain what the differences are between javascript and jQuery, or whatever it is that creates the jCarousel. Also, is the iCarousel based on the same concept as jCarousel, or not?

More importantly, should I want to plonk the jCarousel onto my webpage, on a basic server configuration, how easy is this to do? I mean, is it real easy, or just easy for those who understand how?

I understand how to insert javascript into my web pages, and how to place the javascript in an external file, calling it up by means of a link in the head section of my webpage. I also understand xhtml and css basics, but that's about where my knowledge kind of ends!

When I read the jCarousel installation instructions it talks about plug-ins, but where do these plug-ins go?

I guess what I really need to know is what files I should download in order to get jCarousel to function; where to put them in my web folder; what links to include in the head/body of my webpage and in my css. Also, how I add images and decide on the scroll speed/action etc. for the completed effect.

In a nutshell, I really need an idiots guide to jCarousel, and not the 'simple' installation instructions written for those who already have a pretty good understanding of the concept.

Any advice gratefully received.

[Catalyst]

jQuery is a javascript file that makes it easier to do useful things with javascript, you'd refer to it as a framework. People have written lots of different little tools that use jQuery, like jCarousel, and the often refer to them as plugins, since you can sort of plug jCarousel into jQuery to get some extra feature that jQuery doesn't have normally.

So, you'd download jQuery and your plugin then link to them both on your page.

mootools is another framework that some people use instead of jQuery, and it has plugins of its own. iCarousel is a mootools plugin. You could use either though jQuery is the more popular framework.

So for using jCarousel, you pretty much follow the directions http://sorgalla.com/...Getting-Started Just copy and paste what they show into your page, changing the path to where you've saved the scripts. Then you'll need to put your content into an unordered list as show.

I can give you some more help with it, but you'd want to get as far as you could first so I can make specific comments.

[denny]

Catalyst thanks for giving the solution. I ever learned here alot.