Featured Content Slider for Blogger Using jQuery

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Blogger is not more a blogging platform for beginners, there are lot more can be made with a blogger / blogspot blogs. Featured content sliders are seen in many WordPress blogs and when coming to blogger it is certainly not much seen. Here I am going to teach you, how to add a featured content slider to your blogger / blogspot blogs. Many thanks toWebdeveloperplus for making this code and I just tested and modified to work on blogger.
Featured Content Slider for Blogger Using jQuery
Step 1: Let get into the coding part. Here I just made a CSS stylesheet, to make the installation pretty simple. So all you need to do is just copy the below code and paste it after <head>
<link href='http://sites.google.com/site/bloggermintcom/style1.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
Step 2: If you need to change the dimensions of the slider you can use this step instead of step 1. Search for the code
]]></b:skin>
Now the place the below code before ]]></b:skin>
#featured{
width
:400px;
padding
-right:250px;
position
:relative;
border
:5px solid #ccc;
height
:250px;
background
:#fff;
}
#featured ul.ui-tabs-nav{
position
:absolute;
top
:0; left:400px;
list
-style:none;
padding
:0; margin:0;
width
:250px;
}
#featured ul.ui-tabs-nav li{
padding
:1px 0; padding-left:13px;
font
-size:12px;
color
:#666;
}
#featured ul.ui-tabs-nav li img{
float:left; margin:2px 5px;
background
:#fff;
padding
:2px;
border
:1px solid #eee;
}
#featured ul.ui-tabs-nav li span{
font
-size:11px; font-family:Verdana;
line
-height:18px;
}
#featured li.ui-tabs-nav-item a{
display
:block;
height
:60px;
color
:#333;  background:#fff;
line
-height:20px;
}
#featured li.ui-tabs-nav-item a:hover{
background
:#f2f2f2;
}
#featured li.ui-tabs-selected{
background
:url('http://i47.tinypic.com/6jojr4.jpg') top left no-repeat;
}
#featured ul.ui-tabs-nav li.ui-tabs-selected a{
background
:#ccc;
}
#featured .ui-tabs-panel{
width
:400px; height:250px;
background
:#999; position:relative;
}
#featured .ui-tabs-panel .info{
position
:absolute;
top
:180px; left:0;
height
:70px;
background
: url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJLzf8ydZ0kA0p9W2hcmFqQgxreH4DG8rZ3VZuZtVNLrZQvlSpIki9ixq1IYQu8ubRSfhGq9LYFELw4hVoTF72YqJ4pHbFz20V8AB0NGGNBiHSvhkfA0AspNzSqJD0QJ3maGcWMSEpVk/s1600/transparent-bg.png');
}
#featured .info h2{
font
-size:18px; font-family:Georgia, serif;
color
:#fff; padding:5px; margin:0;
overflow
:hidden;
}
#featured .info p{
margin
:0 5px;
font
-family:Verdana; font-size:11px;
line
-height:15px; color:#f0f0f0;
}
#featured .info a{
text
-decoration:none;
color
:#fff;
}
#featured .info a:hover{
text
-decoration:underline;
}
#featured .ui-tabs-hide{
display
:none;
}
Step 3: This step involves the featured content structure. Search for the code
<div id='content-wrapper'> and place the below code just before 
<div id='content-wrapper'>
<div id='featured'>
     
<ul class='ui-tabs-nav'>
         
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<li class='ui-tabs-nav-item' id='nav-fragment-3'><a href='#fragment-3'><img alt='buzz' src='http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/fooble11/new1.jpg'/><span>How to add Google Buzz to Blogspot blog</span></a></li>
       
<li class='ui-tabs-nav-item' id='nav-fragment-4'><a href='#fragment-4'><img alt='chat' src='http://i50.tinypic.com/34xfg4m.jpg'/><span>Chat live with your blog visitors using Yahoo Pingbox</span></a></li>
     
</ul>
     
<!-- First Content -->
     
<div class='ui-tabs-panel' id='fragment-1' style=''>
       
<img alt='mac' src='http://i47.tinypic.com/rsbi80.jpg'/>
<div class='info'>
         
<h3><a href='#'>Install Mac OS X on Intel/AMD PC using iATKOS v7</a></h3>
         
<p>Description goes here, this is just a test description....<a href='http://www.bloggermint.com/2010/02/install-mac-os-x-on-intelamd-pc-using.html'>read more</a></p>
         
</div>
     
</div>
     
<!-- Second Content -->
     
<div class='ui-tabs-panel ui-tabs-hide' id='fragment-2' style=''>
         
<img alt='' src='http://i50.tinypic.com/33kprh5.jpg'/>
         
<div class='info'>
         
<h3><a href='#'>How to remove &quot;showing post with label&quot; in Blogger</a></h3>
         
<p>Description goes here, this is just a test description....<a href='#'>read more</a></p>
       
</div>
   
</div>
     
<!-- Third Content -->
     
<div class='ui-tabs-panel ui-tabs-hide' id='fragment-3' style=''>
         
<img alt='' src='http://i47.tinypic.com/2191lqt.jpg'/>
         
<div class='info'>
         
<h3><a href='#'>How to add Google Buzz to Blogspot blog</a></h3>
         
<p>Description goes here, this is just a test description....<a href='#'>read more</a></p>
         
</div>
     
</div>
     
<!-- Fourth Content -->
     
<div class='ui-tabs-panel ui-tabs-hide' id='fragment-4' style=''>
         
<img alt='' src='http://i48.tinypic.com/10pwp3o.jpg'/>
         
<div class='info'>
         
<h3><a href='#'>Chat live with your blog visitors using yahoo</a></h3>
         
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</div>
     
</div>  </div>
Replace the default image URL with your image URL. The bigger image dimension is 400 * 250 and for smaller its 80 * 50. Do insert your image with these dimensions, to make it look better. Also replace the text and link with your info.
Step 4: Now we need to initialize a script to play the slide show. For that we use this script. Place the below script just after <head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$
(document).ready(function(){
$
(&quot;#featured&quot;).tabs({fx:{opacity: &quot;toggle&quot;}}).tabs(&quot;rotate&quot;, 5000, true);
$
(&quot;#featured&quot;).hover(
function() {
$
(&quot;#featured&quot;).tabs(&quot;rotate&quot;,0,true);
},
function() {
$
(&quot;#featured&quot;).tabs(&quot;rotate&quot;,5000,true);
}
);
});
</script>
Step 5: This is an optional step, if your blog already includes the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries. If not, follow this instructions. Copy the code below and paste it after <head>
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.5.3/jquery-ui.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>
You are done, check to see the effect. If you have any troubles in executing this technique, drop in your comments. Click here to see the live demo

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