A new polished way of showing off the great photography and the activities on the farm is the slideshow functionality that we just added to Small Farm Central.

The slideshows look something like this (if you are reading this an email or RSS reader, you may need to come to the site to see the slideshows in action):


There are 27 different effects that can used to transition between slides, such as "shuffle" which is used in this next slideshow, (The transition above is "turnLeft.")

Some farmers have already created their own slideshows. See here or here.

It is easy to create new slideshows; they are created with photos already in the farmer's photo gallery. Simply create groups of pictures by going into the manage gallery page and use the "tag" function.

Each photo can have multiple tags separated by a comma. For example, you may want to create a group of photos called "livestock" with all the pictures of your animals. See this screenshot of the manage gallery page for an example:

Circled in red are the tags for each photo. You should see that each photo has the tag 'livestock' so this will create a group of 3 photos called 'livestock'

Now go to "Gallery Slideshow" page to create a new slideshow, select an effect, select the "livestock" tag group an then you will immediately see a page on your site with your new slideshow that would look something like this:

If you have your own farm website and you want to implement this feature, you may want to look at the Jquery Cycle Plugin.