Zoomy is a nice jQuery plugin for creating a “magnifier effect” on images.
Zoomy is great if you want to provide extra detail without putting huge images on your website.
You can control the size of the magnifier lens, and also its shape.
Besides that its loader does wonders (at least to Chrome) from time to time, Zoomy is a nice plugin to spice up your image gallery, artworks, etc.
PivotX 2.0 is a free software to help you to mantain dynamic sites such as weblogs, online journals and other frequantly updated websites. It’s written in PHP and uses MySQL or flat files as its database.
PivotX is a blogging tool but it is also a great tool to maintain more complex websites as well. Its powerful core and flexible template system make it easy for developers to adjust and extend. No matter if you want an easy-to-use, robust blogging tool or are looking to push things to the max – PivotX offers the best of both worlds.
PivotX is free software distributed under the GPL license. It’s partly built with neat products like jQuery, Smarty, TinyMCE and of course, PHP and MySQL. Software by the people and for the people. PivotX has a small, but very active community.
Easy Paginate is a jQuery pagination plugin released by cssglobe.com.
The plugin is basic and easy to use.
The options are as follows: define amounts of pages you want to show in one picture; turn on numeric numbering; and turn “nextprev” arrows on or off.
It has two serious drawbacks, though: no autoplay, and reinventing the wheel.
The former will doubtlessly be added in the future… making this yet another preferential plugin–if you like the design, toy around with it. :)
If your application has a list of items which are divided into categories, maybe you’d want to add something eye-candy-ish when a category is changed?
jQuery.Quicksand is a plugin for reordering items (icons, posts, products, etc) in a very pleasant way.
The Quicksand plugin adds an enormous lot to the user experience with eye-candy animations.
The plugin has some options, too: auto-adjust item height for them not to break out of the container; specify the reorder animation’s duration; and choose easing options for different transitions.
fractal.io is an interactive WebGL software for exploring fractal graphics.
The library helps you become acquainted with fractal graphics directly on the web, both in 3D and 2D.
You can create fractals and then edit their formulas and render them as .PNG.
Beware Windows users, though. The app crashed my PC a whopping two times before I got to the image above. :-)
OpenPublic is a Drupal-based CMS for making government and institutional websites, set to be released on March 9th.
Although it is yet to released, we can already have a sneak peek through the promotional video and some screenshots from the OpenPublic Twitter.
Security is a concern for most government websites — remember the infamous cases where such security was broken –, so OpenPublic naturally takes security very seriously.
What you’ll (probably) like about OpenPublic:
What you won’t like:
If you think there’ll be need for you to make a website for an institution, bookmark the website and come back later.
20 March, 2011
By Lauris Veips
