Category: Brainpicks

Galeriffic - a fast-performing photo gallery

Galleriffic works with jQuery-1.2.6 plugin, to deliver a high volume of photos. It is brought to you by Trent Foley. All photos are set in a neat grid and at the other section you can see the full zoomed preview of the selected photo. There are optional elements of selectors needed for a full-featured setup of Container Sel. The selectors are: controls, image, title, description, download, and thumbs.

Available features of Galleriffic plugin comes in:

* Smart Preloader
* Thumbnail Navigation (with pagination)
* Bookmark-friendly URLs
* Slideshow (auto-updates URL bookmarks)
* Image fade transitions
* Optional download link
* Flexible configuration
* Auto degrade when javascript is inactive or not available

You can initialize the gallery by calling the galleriffic init function, passing in the thumbnails container selector and an options. Set these default functions based on what has been stated at the source page to create your own Galleriffic. Now you can have massive numbers of photo gallery without feeling worry that your picture thumbnails would clutter the web design layout

GTool Color Picker - Simple Web Tool to Pick Color

GTool Color Picker is a free color picker made simple for your needs. You’ll find a simple color slider, RGB and Hex Color input boxes and a color chart picker to compare between initial and the latest color picks.

You may slightly see this color tool would be similar to what you have in Photoshop color picker. Well… the only different is because GTool Color Picker available online

Museo Sans Typeface

If you’re looking for a new typeface for any display and text use, Museo Sans is a good choice.
The type characters are geometric with slight contrast. Looks modern, stable and elegantly designed as highly legible sans serif typeface.

Museo Sans is based on the well-known Museo. The free version available for download are:

* Museo Sans 500
* Museo Sans 500 Italic

Should be great for your designs project, isn’t it? Grab the free version of Museo Sans at MyFonts.com now if you’re interested!

Pamoorama - Spicing up Your Panoramic Image

site>> http://www.silverscripting.com/pamoorama/index.php
demo>> http://www.silverscripting.com/pamoorama/sample1.html

Pamoorama is a simple and lightweight script image scrolled box. This is a special image tool to style up your panoramic image. You will need MooTools module to build it. A ready use module as you don’t have to work on any CSS customization, barely any HTML.

How it works?
Moving the mouse over a panoramic image will scroll it in certain direction. You’ll see a frame (a part) of image that belong to a larger full size image.
Pamoorama will also display a small thumbnail panel of your panoramic image so you can easily navigate the frame by dragging it.

Features:
* Automatic scroll animation option (v 0.3)
* Custom caption, width, colors
* Dragging thumbnail frame only option
* Transition effects when you click on the small thumb (v 0.2)

It would be better if you visit the demo page to learn more about Pamoorama so you can create your first panoramic image previewer using Pamoorama.

Mootools Date Picker

site>> http://www.styledisplay.com/mootoolsdatepicker/
demo>> http://www.rickhopkins.com/DatePicker2/

Date Picker is a fancy Mootool calendar that will show selected date in a box. Looks nice with icon, and easy customization with CSS. There are options and default state to build this calendars.
The integers are:

* dayChars - Identify number of characters for the day names abbreviation.
* startDay - Setting up the week start on specific day.
* yearRange - An integer to set how many years the dropdown list will include, starting from your yearStart setting.
* yearStart - Enter the four-digit year, for instance 1980. This will be where the dropdown list will start, and continue up or down depending on your yearOrder setting.

Strings:

* format - A regular expression script is used to replace this string with the date.
* yearOrder - The direction to put the year dropdown will go, starting from your yearStart, and counting through your yearRange.

Arrays:

* dayNames - An optional script to set it based on the user’s language.
* daysInMonth - Optional script to set calendars with different days.

However, after we have sorted the default options for this Mootools Date Picker, you would still need to visit the source page to put the correct value for each of them. Take a quick tour to build your own Mootools Date Picker now

Scrolling News Ticker with Mootools

This tutorial will teach you how to implement a news ticker with horizontal scrolling using Mootools. As usual, Antonio Lupetti always explains it simple so you can easily implement and reuse this in your projects.

In the first step you’ll see how the structure of each news is contained into a li element and ul list is contained into the layer “NewsHorizontal” with overflow property set to hidden and position set to relative. Then, just add a link to mootools framework in the head tag of your page.

The next step is to build the main HTML elements inside the body tag and to style the News Ticker with CSS code. Last step is adding JavaScript function to enable vertical scrolling provided from Capitol Media. The code can only be found by downloading the source code for this tutorial.

Take a look the details to create your own Mootools News Ticker. Modifying this, to fit your web project, should be fun!

Free Pinky icon set

Pinky icon set has 45 pink colour glossy and round icons. In the pack you can find 45 pink colour 32-px png icons. You are allowed to use Pinky icon set for commercial or non-comercial projects. Get it now.

Free Milky Icons Part 1-8

Min Tran a very talented Vietnamese designer presents you series of Milky Icons to download for free. All of the 8 series in one category page, will surely make your day. They are appeared to be cute graphics with different themes for each part of icon set series.

You can find: eCommerce-related icons, web-related icons, “user” icons, player iconic buttons and many more ;). Keeping these Milky Icons inside your favorite folder sounds like a great idea!

Outgoing Links Track Feature Enhancement on Google Analytics with jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to enhance outgoing links track feature, simply by using jQuery on Google Analytics. The idea is to add outbound link tracking to a new or existing site. You’ll need to set your links to other sites with “REL” attribute, therefore jQuery can track them very easily.

Somehow, by implementing this tip, you’ll get the all these benefits:

* Unnecessary JavaScript to every link for tracking.
* Simply work by inserting a click function to jQuery object to call Google Analytics
* This code will pass a page path of “/outgoing/” and the url of where the click was headed.
* Clearly display the outgoing URLs, total numbers of page views and its percentage on Content Overview Panel of Google Analytics.

Note up this simple tips and you can start to implement it if you think this would be useful for your website analytics.