Latest Site Complete
17/August/2009 | Websites
My latest website has benn complete and has gone live.
Alex Mcdonald photography is redesign of a previously existing flash site showcasing the photographer's work and appearances in publications. The site is quite basic in its look with the photographs being the main focus. This site gave me a chance to work with the jquery library for the first time, the main challenge being to replicate the effect of the flash gallery.
Along with the gallery the site includes a contact form and a control panel allowing Alex to upload more photos and edit the galleries. Please check out the site. (careful contains some adult content)
Jquery Stacked Slider Plugin
29/July/2009 | Tutorials
I have finally finished developing my first plugin for the wonderful jquery library.
The basic function of the plugin is to show a set of slides with
staggered positions and allow the user to cycle through the slides.
There are many Jquery plugins that allow the user to cycle through a
set of slides but the advantage of this plugin is to give the slides
the staggered positioning Vista's tabbing system or the effect seen at
this site. This plugin also gives two sets of controls. Next and
Previous controls and the option select individual slides.
I learnt a many great things along the way and stretched my memory into using algebra for the first time in a while.
You can view a demo, tutorial or download the plugin.
I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions and seeing how you implement the plugin in your designs.
Jquery sliding gallery
21/June/2009 | Applications
I am currently working on a new website for a freelance photographer. I am changing his site from flash to XHTML and CSS. The hardest challenge was to get the gallery working the same as the flash one. The gallery was a horizontal sliding selection of images with bar underneath for manual control.
To solve this problem I looked into Jquery for the first time. After a bit of searching I found the perfect thing to start with and modify to my own needs.
The tutorial for the slider gallery can be found here.
After a lot of changing things about I managed to get it looking like the flash gallery and added light box to view the full size images.
The final version will be available here.