April 2010 ~ vZhai: Info Sharing Blog

Cloud Carousel: 3D jQuery Carousel

Cloud Carousel: 3D jQuery Carousel: "Cloud Carousel is a jQuery plugin enabling you to create 3D carousel with features like auto-reflections and integration with Slimbox image viewer plugin. It also supports captions with “alt” and “title” attributes in the image tags. Cloud Carousel is a cross browser plugin that works in all major web browsers including IE6. Cloud Carousel does not need any specific CSS styles to operate. However, you can style the carousel container, text boxes and buttons....

Reel – Provides 360° View of Anything

Reel – Provides 360° View of Anything: "Reel is a jQuery plugin which takes an image tag and makes it a live “projection” of pre-built animation frames sequence. Its aim is to provide a 360° view of something or someplace. Great alternative to widely used Flash techniques. Stitched image is not required, but they do support them too.Try reel for yourself. Place your mouse pointer over images below. And roll your mouse wheel up/down or drag the image left/right. Reel has been tested in Safari 3+,...

Easy Creation of On-Page Tutorials with Amberjack 2.0

Easy Creation of On-Page Tutorials with Amberjack 2.0: "We have mentioned Amberjack long time ago. Amberjack enables webmasters to create cool site tours. By guiding your site visitors, Amberjack tours can greatly improve the usability of your website.Now they have released Amberjack 2.0, which allows easy creation of On-Page Tutorials. Users can navigate with bubble arrows, keyboard right/left or mouse click left/right. Text bubbles explain page elements to your visitors. You can also use HTML...

20 Free Fonts Ideal for Creative Logo Design

20 Free Fonts Ideal for Creative Logo Design: "Everyone who does logo design knows how hard it is to find the right font. Mainly if you have 100s or 1000s of fonts in your library it may take hours to find the ONE – speaking from my own experience. After certain time period I figured there are fonts I was using over and over. Seems they were perfect for logo design. Because of that, I put together a collection of 20 from my point of view ideal free fonts for our purpose. I am not saying they will...

Google Maps Customization With bMap jQuery Plugin

Google Maps Customization With bMap jQuery Plugin: "bMap jQuery plugin is an easy to to use Google maps plugin that can be used to add markers, layers, and custom marker icons. It allows you to add a sidebars containing list of markers and layers, so that users can easily enable or disable markers and layers from the map. bMap exposes internal Google object, providing you full access to Google Maps API. In addition to jQuery library, Google API Key is required to use bMaps. It offers several...