Dynamic display block

Dynamic display block slideshows are mainly used to showcase featured content at a prominent place on the frontpage of the site in an attractive way. A featured content slideshow can contain e.g.: New articles, Most popular content, New products, Portfolios, etc.

For more examples see the demo site: http://ddblock.myalbums.biz

Documentation
The module is supported by a complete set of documentation, like: Installation and configuration tutorials, Video tutorials, FAQ, How to's, Tips, etc.

Support
Support for the module is given on a daily basis. The issue queue of the module is the preferred place to post: support requests, feature request and bugs. Please give detailed descriptions of your issues, so we can help you better. Searching the issue queue (search on all issue) and the FAQ can give you direct answers.

Theme layouts
The dynamic display block module is supplemented with free and commercial theme layouts. Examples of free themes and the commercial themes can be found at themes.myalbums.biz. Periodically we donate commercial themes to the community.

How you can help?
Below are some examples how you can support the development of the module:

• Write a review on drupalmodules.com.
• Post bugs, patches in the issue queue.
• Review documentation and post issues in the issue queue.
• Review module code and post snippets of code in the forum to improve the module.
• Post your site as an Internet site using the dynamic display block module.
• Make a donation for continuous development and daily support of the module.

The Maintainers

We are Not a big company, the module is developed and maintained by Philip Blaauw. Iren Biasong (trainee) is helping where she can with documentation, creating video's tutorial, creating theme layouts, testing module developments, updating the sites, etc.

We like to thank developers like Aaron Couch (helped with adding Image cache support to the module) and Josh Waihi (helped with reorganizing PHP setting declarations) for their interest and help with the module. We also appreciate the help of others who found bugs, made suggestions for improvements, made issues to improve the documentation and who made reviews of the module.

Developing and giving daily support for the Dynamic display block module like we do, creating documentation in the form of tutorials, video tutorials, how to's, FAQs, tips, takes a lot of time.

We mostly live from donations given by users and companies appreciating what we do, selling some custom theme layouts we created for the module and occasionally we do paid custom installations.

Every week we donate some of our work to the community on our Sunday - Donation Day!!!.

We hope we can continue to give priority to the development and daily support of the dynamic display technology modules and contribute them to the Drupal community.

Future of the dynamic display block module.

We are now creating a new version of the module which solves bugs and adds a lot more pager functionality, which requires that a lot of the documentation has to be adjusted and also all theme layouts have to be adjusted.

New functionality like loading items with AJAX and using TABS for pager items (e.g. 10 pager items per tab) and carousel functionality for the pager are also in development or finishing development which requires again a lot adjustment in the documentation and the theme layouts.

We are further creating an upgrade to Drupal 7, where the dynamic display block module is split up in a base module for the input side and several jQuery plug-ins and also possible flash applications at the output side as plug-ins for the base module. It will also get another name. It will be called Dynamic display technology or ddt with ddt_slideshow. etc. as plug-ins.

We hope with this setup that it is also relatively easy for other developers to create plug-ins for the basic Dynamic display technology module. This way developers of the plug-ins only have to develop the output side of their module using the different input options from the base Dynamic display technology module.

We are very busy with all these developments, adjusting-, creating new documentation and giving daily support for the module. We hope you all understand that we cannot give free support for all kinds of custom installations, custom configurations or adjustments of theme layouts.

Note:
There are several other slideshow/carousel/rotator/tab modules available for Drupal. Have a look at this comparison to find out what suits you best.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-1.0-rc6	2009-Feb-26	46.18 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x

Development snapshots	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-1.x-dev	2009-Sep-16	54.5 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot