How to Add a Carousel Slideshow to Your Website Using SiteBuilder3

If you have ever wanted to add a rotating slideshow of images along the top of your website, now you can! It’s easier than ever to add an image carousel using Webs new SiteBuilder3.

How to Get Started:

  1. Click on the “Page Settings” menu and select “Change Page Layout” option.
  2. Select a page layout that supports “The Carousel” banner and click “Save Layout”. You can choose from 3 layout types that support the carousel slideshow. They are: “Banner”, “Banner/Left Sidebar” and “Banner/Right Sidebar”.
  3. Once you selected your page layout, an empty carousel will appear in the banner area of your page layout with an option to “Double Click” to start editing it.

Adding images to the carousel slideshow is as simple as double-clicking and selecting imagery from uploaded images, free images available via Flickr, or uploading new once. If you are not sure how to add images, please review the following article on how to add images to your website using SiteBuilder3.

Carousel Options

It is important to note that your carousel slideshow will come with a toolbar displayed along the bottom that controls how the carousel looks and plays. Going from left to right:

  • The blue, numbered buttons allow you to view through the images you’ve added to your carousel.
  • The plus button allows you add more images.
  • The red trashcan button allows you to remove an image from the carousel.
  • The slider menu allows you to adjust the image by zooming-in and out.
  • You can add text and titles above the images you upload and then choose to either display them or not using the Text & Title on and off switches. When you’re editing text or titles, a text-formatting toolbar will appear at the top of the SiteBuilder.
  • The carousel settings button  allows you to control slideshow transition styles and speed, and set auto-play.
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    Have you added a carousel to your website? If so, post your page link below for all to see.

    10 Reader Comments

    How to Add a Carousel Slideshow to Your Website Using SiteBuilder3

    Aniece on June 13, 2012

    Here is the link to the carousel on my website: http://kc-weddings.webs.com/services

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    Matthew on June 14, 2012

    Can you link the pictures in the carousel?

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    srinath reddy on June 15, 2012

    webs is awesome. growing day by day. This is an awesome service for building free websites. Tanq for the team of webs for this wonderful service.

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    Jason on June 17, 2012

    Can you insert a link in the carousel or slideshow?

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    Eslie Taylor on June 18, 2012

    Great addition to your services. Loving it on my web site, thank you

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    Josh on June 18, 2012

    Please add Link option to the slideshow

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    betarchon on June 22, 2012

    please add a link to the slideshow pictures…will be nice and useful…

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    Russel K Joseph on June 23, 2012

    Hey! I like this slideshow service that webs have added but my question is: How to remove the box around the slide?

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    Casimira on December 16, 2012

    I know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own blog and was curious what all is required to get set up? I’m assuming having a blog like yours
    would cost a pretty penny? I’m not very web savvy so I’m not
    100% sure. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Appreciate it

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    Rich Wilson on February 7, 2013

    It would really be helpful if we could make the image a clickable html link. I imagine you get a lot of ghost clicks from people trying to access a page from the image itself.

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