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  Public Ticket #178086
Thumbnail navigation -links to articles?
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  • rob started the conversation
    Hi Amit, I'm looking to introduce a thumbnail navigation solution that will allow my users to click on a horizontal row of thumbnails (or equivalent) that will take them directly to a linked Joomla article. Is this outside the capabilities of Revolution or is there a way of configuring it? So far, I've managed to produce a thumbnail navigation to display but can't introduce a thumblink link to an article. ...and I can't get a layer text to appear in the thumbnail either. I guess that I'm abusing Revolution in this context. ...but would be very useful if it can do this. The reason I'm asking this is that my current site solution is using a drop-down navigation bar, but with the number of horses we have, I really don't want a drop-down list of upto 30 horses. ...so thought a thumbnail sized set of slides that can link me through to each horses article page would be a better way to go. The only way I can think of getting this to work, with Revolutions, is to produce background images (say black background) with foreground text with the horses name, and a link from the background image to the article itself. ...but this is a bit heavy and I'd need to build these background images outside of Revolutions. ...and the my users would have to navigate from the thumbnail image to the background image and then onto the article page - that's 3 clicks where 1 click from the thumbnail to the article would be so much better. As I said above, I may be asking too much of Revolutions so really looking for a go/no-go on this so'll get looking for another option. Thanks, Rob
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    Amit replied

    Hi Rob thumbnails can not be external links . they are only links to there slide.

    but you can make img layers that are links.

     

  • rob replied

    Thanks for getting back to. I think I have to introduce a more sophisticated menu navigation system plug-in that allows me to do this properly. ...such as MaxiMenuCK or something similar! Still, Revolution is my primary slider tool and it's doing a great job.