April.01.2011

First of all, make sure you always download the newest version. When you buy the module, you already have the last version.
The following documentation applies to the module version 1.0 and later.

REQUIREMENTS

- Joomla! v1.5.x, Joomla! v1.6.x and Joomla! v1.7.x latest stable versions are highly recommended.

INSTALLATION

1. Please to refer the installation in administrator of module on Joomla! v1.5.x after:

• In Administrator page, go to Extensions -> Install/Uninstall
  In this page, click on Browse.. button, choose our module and then click Upload File & Install
  
  

• Go to Extensions -> Module Manager, choose option mod_yt_content_slideshowiii (for Content component) or mod_yt_k2_slideshowiii (for K2 component) or mod_yt_sobi2_slideshowiii (for Sobi2 component) or mod_yt_vmslideshowiii (for VirtueMart component)
• And you can change params for your idea after

2. And now, please to preview module with layout of Yt Content Slideshow III for example:

• Image of Article: This is the first image in the description of Article if using Data source = Categories or Ids. Or this is the image in the folder if using Data source = Image Folder.
• Description of Article: This is the intro text in the description of Article

SETTING

The parameters are divided into the following areas:

• General Settings
• Title Options And Link Options
• Image Options
• Theme, Effect And Layout Options
• Other Options
• Advanced Parameters

Let's refer the detail setting on mod_yt_content_slideshowiii

GENERAL SETTINGS

• Module Class Suffix - Please refer here
• Data Source - You can choose source from categories, from ids or from Image folder
• Image Folder Path - This param is used for data source from image folder. This is path to folder which contains your images. You can put your images in address: /images/image_slideshowIII. For showing module with source from these images, you just need to put path: images/image_slideshowIII into textbox of this param.
• Description for each image - This param is used for data source from image folder. This is description for each image. You can use syntax: imagename=>title|desciption|link. We support two formats for imagename: 
  • Fullname (ex: imagename.jpg)
  • Name without extension (ex: imagename)
• Select option - You can choose category or section for showing data
• Select Categories or Sections - here you can choose some categories or sections which you want to read articles for the module
• From IDs: With Data source from IDs, you can choose some IDs of articles which you want to show the module.
• For Frontpage Article - Allow you to filter articles with 3 options:
  • Hide frontpage articles : hide articles which are frontpage article
  • Show frontpage articles only : Show frontpage article only
  • Include frontpage articles: Show all articles
• Sort order by - Allow you to sort order articles by
  • Recently Added First: Show latest articles
  • Recently Modified First: Show latest modified articles
  • Ordering
  • Title: Sort order by alphabet
  • Random
• Width Module Type - Percentage/Pixel
• Width Module - Allows you to add a width for the module.
• Width Spotlight - With Module Content Layout = full image, here you can add width spotlight
• Height Navigation - Height for navigation. If you choose Height Navigation Height Navigation = Small Thumnail Height. If not Height Navigation  equals Height which you write.
• The Amount of articles - allow you to limit the number of article
• Item Number Per Page - Item number can show on per page
• On/Off Navigation - You can on/off navigation if you want
• Auto Play - Yes/No

TITLE OPTIONS AND LINK OPTIONS

• Open Link:
  • Same window: open the link in the same window
  • New window: open the link in new window
  • Popup: open the link in new window without navigation
• Show Description with - You can show description with three format: No Description/Description Only/Description with Read More
• Show Description When - Always/Hover/Image Animated
• Max length Description - The number of characters of description
• Show Content Title - Allow to Show/Hide article title
• Link Content Title - Enable/Disable link for Content Title
• Show Spotlight - Allow to Show/Hide Spotlight (with Module Content Layout = full image)
• Max length of Navigation Title - The number of character of Navigation Title
• Content Title Color - a value hexadecimal code. Example: #E32636 or #FF7E00. Also, you can use color text: red, blue, white
• Navigation Title Color - a value hexadecimal code. Example: #E32636 or #FF7E00.Also, you can use color text: red, blue, white
• Content Description Color - a value hexadecimal code. Example: #E32636 or #FF7E00.Also, you can use color text: red, blue, white
• Show Button - With button on navigation, there are three cases to play: Always Display/Hover/Hide
• Readmore Text - You can change read more text
• Cutting Description With
  • Keeping HTML code: the module will keep html code in description
  • Removing HTML code: the module will remove all html code before cutting
• Custom Url Data Source - Custom Url Data Source of articles only support for source from Categories or Ids. Syntax:
  • Id1=>url=linkURL1|image=linkimage1
  • Id2=>url=linkURL2|image=linkimage2
  • ...

IMAGE OPTIONS

• Show Content Image - Allow to show/hide Content Image
• Thumb Width - width of Content Image
• Thumb Height - height of Content Image
• Small Thumnail Width - Width for Thumnail on Navigation
• Small Thumnail Height - Height for Thumnail on Navigation
• Using Image Source - Allow to show/hide Image Source with Content Image
• Resizing image:
  • Using Resize
  • Using crop
• Link For Image - Allow to show/hide link for Content Image

THEME, EFFECT AND LAYOUT OPTIONS:

• Select theme - Please see demo
  • Blue
  • Black
  • Gray
  • Orange
• Navigation Type:
  
  • Type 1:

  

  • Type 2:

  

• Navigation Show - Title/Image
• Module Content Layout:
  • Full Image:

  

  • Image and Description:

  

• Select Effect - We support 25 Effects on module
• Stop when hover - Enable/Disnable to stop auto play when hover
• Animation Duration - time to show one slide
• Interval - time to change slide
• Opacity spotlight - syntax: ex: 0.7 (1.0)

OTHER OPTIONS:

• Intro text: the content to show at the top of module
• Footer text: the content to show at the end of module

ADVANCED PARAMETERS

• Caching:
  • Do not use Cache: Turn off caching
  • Use Cache: Turn on caching
• Cache Times: the time to cache
• Include jQuery Library: enable/disable jquery library. If the template is loading a jquery library, you can turn off jquery of the module to do your site loading faster