If you wanted to implement a Joomla slideshow on your business website 3-4 years ago, I would have probably advised you against it due to slower site loading, having hard time editing the slides as well as creating a bad experience for site visitors with no Flash plugin installed.
However, the times have completely changed and here are 7 reasons to actually implement one:
1) Highlight your unique value proposition. For example,
Norhern York Family YMCA and
Sanford YMCA use their slideshows to quickly and easily highlight latest news, updates and value propositions to their existing and potential members.
2) Update your slides yourself easily in real time. Days when you had to pay your developer $100 every time you wanted to have your slides updated are over. Today, you may update, unpublish, create new and manage existing Joomla slides easily yourself. I recommend easy to use
FrontPage slideshow from JoomlaWorks. Best of all, slide images are adjusted automatically to proper quality and image size.
3) Have your slideshow appear even with no flash plugin installed. Javascript/php based slideshows ensure that your slides appear even if your visitors don’t have Adobe Flash plugin installed.
4) Turn off automated slide rotation if appropriate. For example,
National Consumer Law Center does not have automatic slide rotation because their target audience has different preferences.
5) Save valuable space on your website.
New Jersey APPA Chapter does this effectively by rotating images of their member buildings.
6) Rotate just about anything and make it serve almost any purpose. For example,
Bulletin Bag rotates latest blog posts.
7) Make your site more beautiful with a slideshow. It could be a nice personal touch that your website marketing would really benefit from such as
Make Up Touch slideshow.
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