When did slideshows become sliders, which used to mean something else?<p>Why does Android call its drop-down menus spinners?<p>"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary."
I agree, sliders are for portfolios and that's about it. Every web design team has a portfolio, so they have a slider on their page, so their clients ask for a slider on their page for no reason.<p>I think sliders that clearly give the users control are awesome as shit though. Best example is from my company's direct competitors <a href="http://mobelux.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mobelux.com/</a><p>Great slider
Agree with the sentiment.<p>It seems like sliders are there for gratuitous sex and violence (to paraphrase a line from Never Say Never). In other words, on commercial sites that don't have much to say, but they just want something even remotely flashy, they go with a slider.<p>Seems like if you're really into content marketing, you've got something to say, and a slider wastes way too much space versus say something more like the home page of a blog (albeit often laid out in multiple columns).<p>If you don't have much to say, I'd do something more along the lines of 37Signals and just pitch your products and vector them off to the appropriate one.<p>By comparison, sliders seem to be wasting the viewers time. FWIW, both of the two I looked at from links here, mobelux and infomedia were awesomely slow to load the pages too.
Lead Wordpress Developer at <a href="http://infomedia.com/" rel="nofollow">http://infomedia.com/</a> and what's the first thing they have on their homepage? A slider. "What We Do" - slider. "How We Can Help You" - slider.<p>So why is your company using sliders? What was the "heck of an argument" that changed your mind on your own site?
I find sliders great for e-commerce. A slider of highlighted products/specials feels a bit like window shopping.<p>Bonus points for those dots that show you what slide you're on and let you jump around, and a link to the product page from the slide. I've actually bought quite a few things that a site made me aware of through a slider.