Tag Archive for 'Effects'

FancyBox – A Good Mixture…

While I was working with a friend on the old-school iWeb application, he asked me for a good effect to enlarge images. Making images open in a new window really sucks. So, what you do is you look into the jQuery library for a script that would provide what you want. Didn’t take long and the outcome was FancyBox. FancyBox, by me, is made up of three things. jQuery, Lightbox and FancyZoom. Since it is a mixture of all of them, I called it FancyBox.

Now what is FancyBox? It is a jQuery based script that will make thumbnailed images zoom up and enlarge. Best way to understand what I am talking about is to look at the demo.

You can take a look at this awesome thing in a demo page I made in iWeb:

http://guimkie.com/fancybox-beta/

Please only view this in FireFox and Safari on a Mac. These are the only things with which I have tested it. Camino fails completely. :-D

I’ll open up the scripts as soon as I get it to work properly. That means I will have a pack for those who enjoy coding themselves and then I will have it integrated right into the next major update on iTweak! Yep – the next major update for iTweak, not the 1.2 version. You’ll see this stuff coming soon.

The more you nag me, the higher the chance I get this stuff done. I am kind of a person who always shifts things to the last minute, so tell me to be faster. :-D

Beam Me Up Scotty!

Recently I have discovered this effects library called jQuery. It allows you to call advanced functions from the jQuery scripts without much coding that you write yourself.

If you really want to see what these scripts can do, then check out the jQuery demos.

Since this is such a great library, I thought I’d do a collection of tutorials showing all sorts of nice things. Today we are going to look at how to create a jQuery script to dynamically scroll the window back to the top if a link is clicked. This can also be used for anchors of any kind. It just makes this “in-page” linking much more attractive.

Not sure what I’m talking about it? Click here.

Note: Apparently the link only works perfectly if you are on a page where there is not ability to post a comment. I haven’t fixed this issue yet – but I will soon do so!

I will focus on adding this to Wordpress but the method can also be applied for anything else.

We’ll start on the next page.

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