Hey Fraser!
I want to create a carousel, which is always centre height and width aligned and fixed to the middle. Examples below. Is this possible with the carousel extension?
Please take a look at that video:
http://laytheme.com/documentation.html#use-browser-height-for-row-height
In that video you can see how to make a row browser filling. Please make a row browser filling. If it's ur first row for example then it makes sense to set the "frame top" value to 0. (the pink bar at the top, just like u see in the video)
Then you can put your carousel in there and align it to the middle by selecting it and clicking the "align middle" button in the gridder.
One thing about the references here:
http://guillaumechuard.com/
http://jonathanhares.ch/
On these websites when you resize the height of your browser the carousel will adapt and become smaller. Let me know if that's very important for you to have that feature. With lay theme your carousel size will only adapt when resizing the width of the browser at the moment.
Also, is it also possible to slow the speed of the fade?
Yes, please use this css in "lay options" -> "custom css & html" -> "custom css for desktop version"
.lay-carousel.fadeSlider.fading .lay-carousel-slide.transition{
transition: opacity 800ms ease-out;
}
The normal value is 400ms for the animation duration.