By buddhahara on

On my site I have a block in the left hand column that displays an animated gif that rotates logos to recognize companies that have sponsored the non-profit mission that the site serves. Currently, the rotating gif is solution alone is not a fair way to recognize these sponsors because the gif has a set display order for how it displays the logos. My solution is to create multiple versions of the rotating gifs and to have these gifs display incrementally/randomly on page loads. Would you please suggest some recommended ways and/or pointers to solutions to help me solve my issue? I expect there might already something out there that I can leverage.

Much appreciated!

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roncjl’s picture

roncjl commented

Use the Views module. Create a new node type called maybe "sponsor logos". Upload the logos there. Then create a new view for this node type that is displayed as block. On the views settings, under "Sort criteria" choose "random" or whatever else you like depending on how u have tagged the "sponsor logos" node u made. Then go to the block settings and just place the block where u wanna it appear.

Hope that helps ;)

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scherem commented

I like this solution, but as a drupal newbie, I've been having trouble with creating new node types. Currently what I did was create a new content type and used views to filter what appears in the block. Only problem is that it displays the date added and title of the content, neither of which I want displayed in the block. Is there away to stop this info from showing?

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buddhahara commented

I'm new too... I thought the first post meant create a new content type... so not sure about creating the content v. node. My issue is that when I went to create a new content type I couldn't figure out how to make that content type an image...