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Image Reflection

Image reflection is a common technique that designers use for a visual appeal. This jQuery plugin can create the reflection automatically for images. It is very light & faster because it uses the Canvas object in supported browsers and DirectX filters in Internet Explorer.

Features

• Light weight (Less than 2KB)
• Easy to use
• Customizable

For a stand alone reflection script, please visit http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/

jqZoom – Image magnifier for jQuery

It is a good script to zoom into some part of an image. The idea is to use two images. A smaller image which shows initially and a high resolution copy of that image which will be shown (part of the image corresponding to the mouse position).

jQPanView

This script is useful if we need to show a high resolution image in a a small area. Using this script, user can pan around the images using a small thumbnail view (like google map).

jCrop – Select an image area

It can be used to draw a selection inside an image. Then this data can be used to crop that image in server side. A very good interface that matches to professional image cropping applications. Probably it is useful in a CMS or for web based image manipulation.

imgAreaSelect

This script also serves the same purpose as JCrop but with some more customization options. Lots of examples provided.

360 degree panorama

This script creates a 360 degree panoramic view of any objects using an array of images. The script is simple to use. Shoot the photos of the object in all possible angles and give it as an array to the script. The image preloader will load all images. Can be activated in mouse move or click.

Spherical Panorama

It can create a spherical panorama from given images. It will need a lot of images and those are handled well using a good loading animation. All the process are explained well in their site (It is in French, I have given a google translated link).

jQuery Virtual Tour

This is a good script for creating panoramic views with hot spots. The animation is good and there are controls which pops up on mouse over to control the direction or pause. We only need to give the image and the hotspots can be given using image maps.

For a more simple panorama viewer (without support for hot spot), please check http://www.openstudio.fr/jquery.panorama/

Image Cube

It is a jQuery plugin that sets a division to rotate between images as if they were on the faces of a cube.

The image cube functionality can easily be added to a division with appropriate default settings. It then displays the images contained within the targetted division in a cycle every two seconds. A random rotation is chosen each time to move to the next image. Highlights and shadows are used to enhance the 3D effect.

jqPuzzle – for creating sliding puzzles

jqPuzzle lets you easily create sliding puzzles for your web page. Select an image, put it in your page, and add some magic – jqPuzzle will automagically turn it into a full-blown sliding puzzle! If you want, you can highly customize and style your sliding puzzle according to your needs. The interface is available in several languages, and you can add your own texts on the fly.

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The “seekAttention” plugin gracefully get’s your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element (the element which is seeking attention) un-faded and thereby focusing the users attention on it.

The definable area (to be called “container” from this point forward) can be the entire page or any element which surrounds the target element and the colour which overlays the container can also be defined by you.

This plugin can be useful for web based tutorials or in forms (May be in validation).

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It is available for bot jQuery and Mootools

LavaLamp – Lava lamp for jQuery

• Horizontal and vertical movement supported
• Callback support on completion
• Easing library support – Can use any supported animation
• Speed can be adjusted

Don’t forget to checkout the different easing effects (On top of the demo page)

Fancy Menu – Lava lamp for Mootools

Also, check the Barack Slideshow plugin based on the MorphList plugin for Mootools.

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Why it is recommended?

• It does not use any image.
• It is more SEO friendly because we don’t need any unnecessary markups in code. All code is generated dynamically and a search engine never sees that.
• Don’t need to worry about changing the background color as long as it is not a gradient.

Limitations

The background should be a solid color (Should not be a gradient or background image).

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We need to specify a directory where slides are stored. The slides can be (X)HTML, images or flash.

Features

• Excellent transition effects
• Configurable controls
• Supports HTML, Flash and images

How it works?

The script works a little differently. It posts the configured options to a PHP file using AJAX. The configurable options specify the slide directories, titles and links. The PHP file parses the options and then it scans through the directory(multiple directories are supported).

The downloaded source package contains this PHP file. The PHP script path is hard coded in javascript, so you might need to edit the path there. Also, it is possible to tweak it to work with any server side scripting languages, not just PHP.

Dependencies	jQuery 1.26, jQuery UI library recommended
Size	16KB (Minified)
Restrictions	None (New BSD)
Demo	Open | Open in new window
Info & Download	Open

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jGrowl is a nice way to show unobtrusive messages or informations to user.

Advantages

• The default style is good enough
• The message can be shown for a pre defined time (For eg: 10 seconds and then it will close automatically)
• Support for sticky messages – which do not close automatically
• Customizable

For demo and download, please check the links

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Using jQuery Coda plugin, css-tricks.com has created a very good script for a featured content gallery with auto advancing. It can be created with simple html markups.

Suggested Enhancements

Add scroll functionality (carousel functionality) in the thumbnails so that any number of items can be featured.

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There are two jQuery plugins to emulate the Coda style. One uses scrollTo plugin and the other uses jQuery easing plugin

1. jQuery Coda Slider

It uses the jQuery scrollTo plugin.

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2. jQuery Coda Slider

It uses jQuery easing plugin for the effects

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Unlike many other libraries, multiple images can be opened at the same time. And a user can arrange the images as he wish on the browser. So it is definitly more usable than image gallery script that can show only one image – typical example is lightbox effect (opening the next closes the current).

The animation is also brilliant. Very smooth zooming of images. To open an image, you just need to click and to close, click on it again (Customizable in different ways). If you want to open two images, just click on the required images and those two will be popped up. Opening one image does not close the other.

Advantages:

• Stand alone javascript. Does not need a library.
• The most user friendly way to show images
• Good effects
• Can show HTML, AJAX content or Flash.
• Can open multiple images
• The opened image windows are draggable so that the user can arrange it in anyway. This is very useful if you want to compare two images.
• Creative Commons License – Free for personal use

Disadvantages:

• Not free for commercial sites. Requries a license. It can be purchased for one site or unlimited

The author has given good documentation and examples in his site highslide.com

Another cool site to check out is, http://youflow.finnrudolph.de. The author has successfully combined coverflow, youtube API and highslide to create a good mashup.

Is it the best?

Well, I think it has improved a lot. Using this script you can completely avoid browser popup windows. The ability to show images and non image (html, iframe) contents in a more userfriendly way makes it one of the best script ever made. The only drawback I see is the license. What do you think?

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