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I was searching for a quick slideshow plugin to use within an article in Joomla and stumbled across one called Simple Picture Slideshow . It is extremely simple to set up.  You download the plugin from their site, install it into your Joomla backend, then find it in your plugins directory.  There are few settings to play with from having the images link to other pages and buttons for controlling the slideshow.  I went with a simple approach for Ryan Gibbons Real Estate and just had a button-less image slideshow that began automatically on page load. The beauty of  Simple Picture Slideshow  is its ease of use.  It's default directory (which you can change in the plugins settings page) is set to /images/stories .  To use it in your article, you use the following syntax: {besp} sampleimages {/besp} Where sampleimages would actually be /images/stories/sampleimages .  It will load all the images in that directory and size them to the dimension...

AniaTaubenfligel.com is a modeling portfolio site showcasing photos of the model Ania Taubenfligel. There are 2 image galleries showcasing her photos and her appearances as captured by the fashion media.  Along with the image galleries, there is an information page and a contact page. Created by  2BlueSolutions Web Design.

On the Alexander Furniture Agencies website, I used a Joomla extension call Art Sexy Lightbox to do the photo displays throughout their site as seen below: Art Sexy Lightbox  can be bought for $20 and is one of the first Joomla extensions that I purchased because it was easy to implement and did exactly what it said it would with a decent amount of customization.  There is a great demo site that they have set up to show you what the extension can do.