I believe there are several Javascript based slideshows available publicly.
The one we have explored most is Slideshow2:
http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/index.html . This example looks
very similar to the page your provided:
http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/slideshow/example5.html .The "quick fact"
text may be entered into the caption field perhaps. It does require Mootools
Javascript library to work.
Tonu
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM, David Peterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Fellow Web Nerds and Non-Nerds alike:
>
> I was exploring the idea of integrating something of a slideshow/quick fact
> gallery that would be something like many other reports published on the web
> these days. It would end up with a look similar to this:
>
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/15-suburbs-that-are-turning-into-slums-2010-7#
>
>
> <http://www.businessinsider.com/15-suburbs-that-are-turning-into-slums-2010-7#>We
> already integrate the UThink Blog, Media Mill into our site and I was
> wondering if there was already something like this that people are using
> that is shared that could accomplish this task. If not, I could integrate
> something into our current Ruby on Rails framework, so suggestions on that
> end would be welcome as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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