Cristi Cotovan

I know this kind of slideshow is pretty comon stuff in the jQuery world as well as other frameworks but I thought the Apple-like Slideshow gallery presented by Tutorialzine was pretty slick and managed to very closely resemble the one used on Apple’s website.

Of course you will customize it if you are going to use it on your site, aren’t you? View the demo here and the original tutorial here.

I recently came across a very slick (and free) menu framework. It’s very customizable, the authors even showcase a few popular menu imitations using their framework (see Nvidia imitation, Adobe or Vimeo).

Here are some of the features from the site:

• Modular, with themes. Not only HTML is separated from CSS, but even CSS definitions are categorized into structural and thematic types. Thus creating a new css drop-down menu means creating only a new theme since structure is permanent. What is more, creating a new theme is easy with available templates and takes 10-15 mins.
• Easily deployable. The code and files are well organized. Available channels to hook up to your CMS or other tools as well as existing websites in XHTML format.
• Easily transformable. Can be transformed by changing class name only. Available transformations: horizontal, vertical left-to-right, vertical right-to-left, horizontal linear, horizontal upwards.
• Cross browser. Configurations available for Windows Internet Explorer 5 or later, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later, Opera 7 or later, Apple Safari 2 or later, Google Chrome 1 or later, etc.
• JavaScript only for IE. Minimal JavaScript code only for IE 6 or earlier. Can be used with popular JavaScript libraries Jquery or Scriptaculous. Everything else is pure CSS.
• Super Fast. Having the above mentioned features it is not affected by any disturbances whatsoever.
• Continuous development. The project is constantly revised and improved.

via Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework – LWIS.NET.

jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling lists of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items can be either static HTML or loaded via various methods (including AJAX). The elements in the carousel can be scrolled back and forth, with or without animation.

jCarousel – Riding carousels with jQuery.

Wish I had found this thing a while ago when I was developing my own auto-complete functionality. This extremely small jQuery plug-in (about 7 Kb) looks and works brilliantly. The plug-in takes advantage of jQuery more than other plug-ins that do the same thing, is styled ONLY with CSS (and uses no images) and is very responsive. It creates all the necessary elements dynamically and only needs a regular INPUT box.

It is a very customisable plug-in, the data can be supplied to it in either an object on the page or loaded in JSON format from a URL. And of course, it’s free.

jQuery pageSlide by Scott Robbin is a great plugin for sliding the entire web page on one side and revealing a pane with information. This can be used to provide context-help for example, when clicking a link in your application or to provide options for an application and after saving them, slide the page back to its initial state.

Great work by Scott Robbin, inspired by Aza Raskin.

Download the files from the GitHub project setup for this purpose.

JQuery File Upload Plugin Script – Implementation – Uploadify.

This is a very slick upload feature using some of the well-known technologies: flash, swfobject and my newest favorite: jQuery.

I have developed a website where you can buy land in an almost fairy tale location — Bran, Romania. The website included something new, never before done on one of my websites — 360-degree panoramic views for the plots being sold.

Photography for it has been also shot by me. View some of my photos on flickr.

The very first website I have designed to use an implementation of the JW Flash player:

Despre Isus

The website idea and maintenance belongs to William Anderson, a missionary friend of mine based in Bucharest, Romania.

You might have happened upon this player on more than a few websites. I just found it yesterday: a very customizable FLV, MP4, MP3, JPG, etc., player you can plug into your website and serve content.

JW FLV Media Player

After having used SlideShowPro for a while to deliver videos, I think this is a much better option. Very small file, configures in seconds, no extensions to install or Flash IDE required.

Great discovery today: a jQuery plugin for sliding images or content, vertically or horizontally. I can think of a few ways this could be useful in my projects. Now, if only it had a way to get these to change automatically on a delay — I am sure it’s easy to implement.

jQuery plugin – Easy Image or Content Slider