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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Time for action – creating a fullscreen slideshow


We'll keep working with the files that we created in the Time for action – creating a fullscreen background image section. The only change we'll need to make to create a slideshow rather than a single fullscreen background image is to our scripts.js file. To do so, perform the following steps:

  1. Open scripts.js and remove the src and fade options from the vegas() method, as shown in the following code:

    $(document).ready(function(){
      $.vegas({
      
      })('overlay', {
        src: 'overlays/03.png'
      });
    });
  2. Next, we need to tell Vegas that we want to use a slideshow. Before we pass in the options object, tell Vegas to use a slideshow, as shown in the code:

    $(document).ready(function(){
      $.vegas('slideshow', {
    
      })('overlay', {
        src: 'overlays/03.png'
      });
    });

    Note that this slideshow option is outside the curly braces.

  3. We'll pass in the slideshow options we want to use, inside the curly braces. First, let's add delay. This tells Vegas how long to...

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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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