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Eric Tiggeler
Eric Tiggeler
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Eric Tiggeler

Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla!, such as the highly successful Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide  and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla!. He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla!, which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand. He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www.joomla.erictiggeler.nl(in Dutch) and www.joomm.net(in English).
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Let's get the BT Content Slider module to display article teaser texts on the home page. The steps are as follows:

  1. If you've followed along and installed the Newsflash module earlier, you may want to hide that module now. To do so, navigate to Extensions | Module Manager. Locate the Newsflash module that is titled Recent Lectures.

  2. Click on the green check mark in the Status column to unpublish this Newsflash module, that is, hide it on the frontend.

  3. In the Module Manager screen, locate the BT Content Slider module (mod_bt_contentslider) and click on its title to set the available options. These options are shown in the following screenshot:

    This looks quite different compared to the default Newsflash module. The Content Slider settings are divided into eight tabbed panels! Here, dozens of settings are available to customize the extension. But don't despair, you'll only have to tweak a few settings to get this module to work.

  4. Let's start with the...

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Eric Tiggeler

Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla!, such as the highly successful Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide  and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla!. He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla!, which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand. He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www.joomla.erictiggeler.nl(in Dutch) and www.joomm.net(in English).
Read more about Eric Tiggeler