Time for action – creating a featured content slider

We'll get started as usual by setting up our basic HTML file and associated files and folders, just like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery.

  1. In the body of the HTML document, the HTML markup for our featured content slider will be very similar to the HTML we set up for a news ticker. The only difference is that I'm replacing the images with larger images since I want images to be the main focus of the slider. I'm using images that are 600 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall. The following is a sample of the HTML:
    <div class="jcarousel-skin-slider"> <ul id="featured-carousel"> <li> <a href="#"><img src="images/600/Switzerland.jpg" alt="Switzerland"/></a> <div class="info"> <h4>Switzerland</h4> ...

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