Miscellaneous | Sue Brandreth's Learning Resources

WOWSlider
(http://wowslider.com/)
Awesome Slider for Non-Coders

FREE DOWNLOAD

Why WOWSlider?
An image slider is an image slider and they’re all about the same, right? Not so fast. What are the main requirements for choosing any kind of web component? Compatibility, easy setup, high performance, and nice look and feel. With WOWSlider we’ve tried to create the perfect html slider that covers all these needs and even more:

Widest compatibility for all possible browsers, devices, web standards
WOWSlider looks and works flawlessly on all mobile devices, modern and legacy browsers, including IE6, thanks to the standards compliant, valid, semantic markup and thoroughly optimized script

Fast, lightweight, error-free
WOWSlider is light (6kb gzipped), loads fast, utilizes hardware-accelerated animations. It is successfully used and tested on millions pages (yes, millions), so we can say for sure that it’s virtually bug-free.

Minimum efforts to learn, create and embed in your web project
You don’t waste your time for coding, learning yet another API, testing and photoshopping. The drag-n-drop maker generates the slider automatically with the export as HTML page or Joomla/Wordpress plugin.And with visual Insert-to-Page Wizard you won’t need to touch a single line of code to embed it in your page.

Awesome look to “wow” your visitors
Huge collection of beautiful skins and breath-taking effects is included and ready to go. Select and apply them in a single click.

Video LightBox
(http://videolightbox.com/)
Add video to your website with stylish popup video effect! Now for Windows and Mac!

FREE DOWNLOAD

Video LightBox JS is a free wizard program that helps you easily embed video to website, web page or blog, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
All it takes is 3 easy steps: 1.Add Video, 2.Select Template, 3.Publish. At the first step, you add a video clip, for example cut-n-paste YouTube url or drag-n-drop video file, then select the template for video popup and video thumbnail appearance and, at the final step, publish the result to a local drive or directly to the Internet via a built-in FTP client.
Video LightBox generates a nice image thumbnail for your clip. On click, this thumbnail expands into a stylish overlay window containing the video. No css, html, javascript coding, no image editing, just a couple of clicks to get the your video added to the Web!

Visual SlideShow
(http://visualslideshow.com/)
Free SlideShow Maker

FREE DOWNLOAD

Visual JavaScript SlideShow is a free software that helps you easily generate delicious slideshows with gorgeous transition effects, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code. Just drag&drop your photos into Visual Website Slideshow window, press “Publish” and your own image slider with beautiful effects will open in the browser instantly! No flash, javascript, css, html coding, no image editing, just a few clicks to get your web slideshow ready.

Visual LightBox
(http://visuallightbox.com/)

FREE DOWNLOAD

Visual LightBox is a free wizard app that helps you easily generate popup image galleries with a terrific lightbox overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code. Just drag&drop your photos into Visual LightBox window, press “Publish” and your own picture slideshow with beautiful lightbox effects will open in the browser instantly! No javascript,css,html coding, no image editing, just a click to get your gallery ready.
Responsive, mobile-ready, unobtrusive, search engine friendly, translated to 31 languages!

CCS3Menu
(http://css3menu.com/enterprise-green.html)
Free DropDown Menu Generator

FREE DOWNLOAD

Some of the steps which can make you learn to how to use CSS menu making are as follows: the first step is to remove the Javascript menu code from the website and remove HTML menu code too. It is one of the most important steps to get rid of old code from the document before putting the new menu style. And if you fail to remove the previous code, you won’t be able to insert the new code. For removing the menu code, you need to look up for code editor and from there change the menu code in order to make your new menu style applicable on the website.
The next step is to open the free CSS menu maker. You need to start working on the new menu which you have inserted. In this way you would get use to of working on the new pattern. The method of inserting the new menu would be similar like you change the wallpaper of your computer screen or mobile. First of all open the menu, then insert new menu and save it. Click on preview to view the look of new menu, and then click on okay option. The next step is to open the previously designed menu, if you want to switch from DHTML menu to CSS menu or vice versa. After inserting the new menu according to your choice, you can open the file into the new drop down menu to see how it appears.
Another step is to design the menu. You would be available with three tabs when you are designing the new menu, the menu colors, the menu design and options. In menu designer tab, you will work for the structure if the new menu. In menu color tab, you will select the color of your menu scheme and from the options tab; you will select the other things involved on the menu. CSS menu making is a long process which requires technical knowledge and skills. And the last step is to insert the new menu. Furthermore, you can alter your menu by re positioning it; you can add the menu to other pages of yours.
CSS3 Menu makes all process easier! Download now and try!

VistaPhotoGallery
(http://vistaphotogallery.com/)
Vista Photo Gallery is a photo album builder, that allows you to create and publish rich, interactive web photo galleries for your website.

FREE DOWNLOAD

Vista Photo Gallery is the first software that creates AJAX-powered online image galleries without the need for server-side setup. It means you just upload files generated by the software to your server and it will run immediately, even if it’s a free webhost without a php, asp, mysql support.
Galleries made with Vista Photo Gallery are high-end web applications that look and behave exactly like desktop apps. You and your web site visitors won’t feel the difference! All operations, such as selecting a photo, filtering by tag and date, changing the preview mode, scrolling, performs immediately. No more need to wait for page reloading after every click!

Apycom jQuery Menus
(http://apycom.com/)

FREE DOWNLOADS

Full cross-browser compatibility
Fully accessible even when javascript is turned off, as a pure css menu
Search engines optimized
Clear unordered list (LI and UL HTML tags) structure
Easy to setup and update
Fantastic animation and transition effects
Multiple pre-desinded color schemes
Completely customizable styling with CSS
Powered by jQuery
Extremely small – 3kb uncompressed

cu3ox – Free 3D Flash Gallery
(http://cu3ox.com/)

FREE DOWNLOAD

With CU3OX you can create an attractive image slider with cool 3D slice effects and transitions between slides. You’ll be able to divide your images into any number of pieces and rotate them the way you like! CU3OX uses the Tweener engine, which makes it support several tween types for the transitions, such as Cubic, Bounce or Elastic. Use CU3OX to create content slider, image galleries, image & banner rotator for your website.
You don’t need to have any professional skills in Flash, HTML, CSS and Javascript. All need files and html code will be generated in CU3OX visual interface for Windows OS. Just open images in CU3OX generator, specify the description and adjust transition properties for each image. Publish the 3D Flash Gallery to a local drive or directly to the Internet via a built-in FTP client and add the HTML embed code on your website or blog.
As a result you’ll have .swf (flash) file that requires an XML configuration file in which the paths to the existing images and settings, necessary for handling those, are defined. You can also define the appearance in terms of font-family, font-style, color, etc. in an external CSS file, making customization really easy.

MobiRise Responsive Menu
(https://mobirise.com/responsive-menu/)

FREE DOWNLOAD

Using responsive design in recent times does not require as much an effort as in the early days. The proliferation of smartphones with different screen sizes has done a good job to develop a one-size-fits-all solution—responsive design.
However, like with all triumphs, the triumph of responsive design as a concept raises a number of questions. Say, how well can images be optimized for faster loading with users becoming increasingly impatient, how does the increasing resolution cramped in small screen estates affect web design, and can navigation get any better in responsive design?