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I'm trying to add a news carousel on my OneHub site.

I know there are quite a few plugins that I can use, but I'm looking for a ready-to-use hosted solution where people can log-on and manage the content, and I can simply include as an iFrame widget on our OneHub site.

We would prefer to use Expression Engine, since we're using this on some of our other websites. It looks like Expression Engine + JQuery Cycle Rotator might be an option, not sure how easily I can get this onto OneHub though... WordPress has a carousel plugin as well that I'll explore.

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Don't assume everyone knows what OneHub is. Link whatever you're referring to. The only one I'm aware of doesn't seem to allow this kind of customization at all, much less use of ExpressionEngine/WordPress. – Su' Oct 19 '12 at 3:13
Sorry, probably should not have mentioned OneHub - it's not relevant. I just want to have content managed by a third-party, and expose that content in a news carousel as an iFrame on my site. I think I need to focus on finding the right content management solution, and then just use some JScript to get that content rotating on my site. – alanwhpoon Oct 19 '12 at 14:37

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I don't know of services which host sliders and allow you to embed them. If it's for your own domain only you could install a slider on any other free blog platform, then call it with an iframe into your own site. Not knowing how OneHub works this seems overkill. You can't install jQuery plugins directly? If not install it on wordpress.com or some other free site then use an iframe on your current domain to bring in the slider

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Thanks! OneHub has a bunch of built in widgets (file-sharing, comments, etc.) and then has an iFrame widget that allows you to point to an external URL. There's no way to install jQuery plugins directly, or even include a <script> tag to point to an external js. For example, I wanted to use the "embed" functionality from surveymonkey to include a survey. I had to host a really simple HTML file that had the surveymonkey <script> tag, and then point to my hosted site from OneHub. Definitely seems overkill. – alanwhpoon Oct 21 '12 at 15:53
Yes it seems like a basic basic web dev site like Wix, if you know enough to work with everything we've mentioned it's time you graduated to a shared host. – Anagio Oct 21 '12 at 15:56

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