XML driven flash Homepage Slideshow

The homepage slide show is a beautiful slide show for your website. It is fully xml driven. You just need to add the image paths and descriptions in the xml. The flash displays images from xml. It supports special characters too. It is possible to set gradient colors through xml. The tab titles, description, button read more text also can be customized through xml. Auto play time of the slide show also can be set through xml.

The auto slider can be shown on mouse over. The scroll speed of the menu, color of info box, info box title, read more button color are be also xml driven. Simply it is the best flash slide show to use on your website home page.

Having a free homepage slider/slideshow integrated onto your static blog or website front page, or a category page not only enhances the overall look of the page but can showcase all your amazing work/ products /services portfolio /stuff in a easy to understand and interactive fashion.

No doubt this free static homepage slideshow adds an elegant and sleek look with super simple construction, translucent description box, play/pause button, tabs like menu listing to reveal the next image/news/description and much more; perfect for any news/portfolio related static websites.

To add with, the highly customizable features of this free static slider enables you to change and tweak with almost any aspects of the free slider including:

  • Top border/bottom border Gradient color
  • Menu color / hover color/ text color/ hover text color/ font size
  • Box dimensions
  • Information box size/ box color / box title/ box button color/ box alpha/ box short description/box text
  • Corner radius
  • Auto slider
  • Customizable auto slide time and much more

Homepage slideshow is one of the most well known free static slideshows out there and it remains one of the best yet simple looking.



  1. height and width can be set in html
  2. XML driven background gradient color(start and ending colors)
  3. XML driven menu colors, menu mouse over color and active color
  4. XML driven menu text for every slide
  5. XML driven menu scroll speed
  6. Customizable info box color
  7. Customizable info box title
  8. Customizable info box button color
  9. Customizable info box button text
  10. Customizable info box alpha
  11. Customizable info box short description
  12. Auto Slider
  13. Customizable auto slide time

Download the trial version using above link and extract them. Copy the below code and paste it into the html file where you would like to use this flash gallery. Open homepage_slideshow.xml file and add image sources and change customize the colors as per your requirement and save it. If you want to change width and height of this gallery, please change maxwidth and maxhhwight in the below code.



<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

		var flashvars = {
			maxwidth: 760,
			maxheight: 220,
			imagewidth: 510,
			baseColor: 0x92BB38,
			xmlfileurl: "homepage_slideshow.xml"
		};
		var params = {
			bgcolor: "#FFFFFF",
			wmode: "transparent"
		};
		
		var attributes = {
			id: "cna"
		};
		
		
		swfobject.embedSWF("homepage_slideshow.swf", "homepageSlideshow", "760px", "220px", "10.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);

</script>
			<div id="homepageSlideshow">
			</div>
<noscript>
	<object data="/homepage_slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="220" align="middle" id="cna">
		<param name="movie" value="/homepage_slideshow.swf" />
		<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />	
		<param name="quality" value="high" />
		<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
		<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
		<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
		<param name="FlashVars" value="maxwidth=720&amp;maxheight=220&amp;imagewidth=510&amp;baseColor=0x92BB38&amp;xmlfileurl=homepage_slideshow.xml" />
	</object>
</noscript>
  1. Download Homepage Slidehsow
  2. Copy folders "images" and "js" in to your website directory
  3. Copy files "homepage_slideshow.xml" and "homepage_slideshow.swf" in to your website directory
  4. Open homepage_slideshow.html and copy code and paste it where you want to display slideshow.
  5. Please make sure "js","images" and "homepage_slideshow.swf" paths should be valid.

    6. Customization Instructions

  6. All Slideshow functionality options are available in "homepage_slideshow.xml", using this file you can customize slideshow like adding new images,slideshow transition time etc...
  7. Slideshow Width : "width" parameter value in homepage_slideshow.html file.
  8. Slideshow Height: "height" parameter value in homepage_slideshow.html file.
  9. Slideshow Background Colr: "bgcolor" parameter value in homepage_slideshow.html file.
  10. Slideshow Image Width: "imagewidth" parameter value in homepage_slideshow.html file.
  11. Slideshow Basecolor: "baseColor" parameter value in homepage_slideshow.html file.
  12. maxwidth,maxheight values are slideshow width and slideshow height related parameters these values should always equal to slideshow width and slideshow height.
If you have problems in using this module please open a support ticket at http://support.xmlswf.com

   1.showPlay : 0 / 1
   2.transform : blur / shortRotation / circlePath
   3.target : _self / _blank
   4.wmode : transparent / opaque / window




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