Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

DreamCSS has written a tutorial explains how to Create Beautiful jQuery sliders with image description and name. The gallery looks so simple but elegant. The text effect it displays the image title and description is very attractive as well.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://dreamcss.comli.com/jquery sliders/
License: License Free

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MegaZine 3 is an open source pageflip/flashbook engine, written completely in AS3. It generates an interactive book, which can then be flipped through by the user. MegaZine 3 uses a completely dynamic approach, allowing full configuration through an external XML file. This makes it easy to set up books even if you do not even own the Flash IDE.

MegaZine 3 automatically generates a control bar that allows jumping to every individual page. It also generates thumbnails for the pages, to make it easier for the user to find a page again, or getting a first impression.

Requirements: Flash Required
Demo: http://megazine.mightypirates.de/demo/index.html
License: LGPL License

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jQueryforDesigners has added a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. They have published a tutorial which walk through the fundamentals of scrolling carousel, and how they have created jQuery Infinite Carousel.

The trick is building the DOM with the cloned nodes, because we’ve cloned the start of the list to the end of the list, when we scroll off the last items, it looks like we’ve looped back round. Once the animation completes, we change the scrollLeft position back to the real first items.

This scrollLeft isn’t visible to the user since the overflow is hidden, and so it creates the effect of being infinitely sliding from left or right.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jqueryfordesigners.com/demo/infinite-carousel.html
License: License Free

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PhotoDiary is a web application which lets you to easily publish a brand new photo blog on the web. The application frontend is built upon Flash technology and data is managed through a dedicated web control panel, developed in PHP.

The interesting thing about PhotoDiary is that users who are viewing your PhotoDiary are able to add comments by putting yellow sticky notes on the photos.

To run PhotoDiary on your own web server, support for MySQL, PHP and GD Library technologies is required. This software is published according to a GNU GPL3.

Requirements: Flash,MySQL, PHP and GD Library
Demo: http://photodiary.webgriffe.com/demo/
License: GPL v3 License

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Flashtuts has published: Build a Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control. In the tutorial, you will learn how to create a flash gallery which displays all image files in a given directory, with a slider that is used to browse easily through the images.

The flash gallery is still low on functionality. The loaded images all need to be the same size and do not have a larger preview. You could add a resizing function and an option to view a larger preview of the image when clicked. Furthermore, an option to browse left or right with buttons or with a keyboard event could be added.

Requirements: Flash Required
Demo: http://besofresh.com/flashtuts/full.html
License: License Free

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An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. DesignMag has published a tutorial teaching us how to Create an Image Rotator with jQuery and CSS. It will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.

Do keep in mind these jQuery driven image rotators do not degrade in the best fashion. When you disable JavaScript, each thumbnail must be clicked on to get the larger image (which opens in the same window).

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/image-rotator/
License: License Free

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Soh Tanaka has written a tutorial about making a Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect with jQuery. Basically all they are doing is animating the thumbnail’s size, absolute positioning coordinates (vertical alignment with css), and padding when we hover over. During this animation, they also switch the value of the z-index, so that the selected image stays on top of the rest.

It may not be as smooth as the flash version, but its definitely a neat effect. If you switch up the absolute potion coordinates, you can create various ways the hover effect pops out as well.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/image-zoom/
License: License Free

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ProFolio is an elegantly designed portfolio for artists, designers, photographers, or anyone that has creative visual pieces to share. It was designed to be professional, elegant, clean & simple. You will see the background of the page with the unobtrusive portfolio navigation to the left. Simple click on portfolio to view the artist’s work, and the other items will fade as small previews of the artwork fades into focus.

ProFolio is built with HTML instead of Flash so that search engines can add your portfolio to their indexes. It works in Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 7+, Safari. ProFolio is also easily customized, extremely simple to install. However, it’s free for a limited time only.

Requirements: Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 7+, Safari
Demo: http://profolio.sticktacular.com/
License: Free for a limited time

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GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize. Two sets of navigation graphics are supplied to support both light and dark colored galleries.

The back and forward buttons are semi-transparent to work with any color background. GalleryView allows for users to create their own themes easily by creating only three new graphics for the pointer, back button and forward button.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.spaceforaname.com/jquery/galleryview/#demos
License: License Free

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Marco has created a Polaroid Photo Viewer with CSS3 and jQuery by combining the CSS3 Box Shadow and Rotate properties. When dragging a polaroid around, you’ll see the shadow. When it’s placed down, it’s randomly rotated to the left or the right.

Sadly, CSS3 and HTML5 aren’t the standards yet. Not all modern browsers will be able to show off the full effect. It only works on Apples Safari and Google Chrome as they are the only browsers supporting the Transform and Box-Shadow property of CSS3 via the -webkit- prefix. If you are interested in creating a Polaroid Gallery, you can also look at the Drag and Drop Polaroid Photo Gallery in Flash?

Requirements: Safari and Google Chrome
Demo: http://demo.marcofolio.net/polaroid_photo_viewer/
License: License Free

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