A common design element we see lately in a lot of sites is a banner rotator - image slideshow with some text and links on the side.

There are several modules that try to deal with it in Drupal (such as "ddblock", which we don't use), however we find that using the good old Views slideshow module can give us everything we need. The following blog post gives an overview of how we achieved this task without any code, just Views configuration and a bit of CSS. As always we provide a feature that can be installed and enabled (visit /banner-rotator).

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