Entries Tagged as “Freebies”
Fancybox Light
Fancybox is a great lightbox alternative because it is easy to customize and it looks really nice. I used it for the first time in my AutoGallery script and thought it worked out nicely. This past week I have been working on a photo gallery plugin for mango blog called "Memento". I have decided to make the code a little cleaner by separating the fancybox code from the rest of the plugin. It made the most sense as it allowed users to make their own decision about what lightbox script they wanted to use.
I am releasing this plugin as a "light" version because it uses the older 1.0.0 version of fancybox and does not have as many options as the current release of fancybox (currently 1.2.1). Many of the newest features of fancybox appear to be made in an effort to make it work more like Shadowbox by incorporating more media types than just images. For a photo galery this isn't necessary and the light version works just fine. I do plan to release a full version later if people find it useful enough to merit the work. If your a big Fancybox fan let me know in the comments.
- Plugin version:
- 1.0
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-20
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/fancybox-light.zip
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sIFR3
A while back I started working on a sIFR text replacement plugin for mango blog. For what ever reason I stopped working on it and there it sat on my hard drive wasting away. So rather then have it waste away I thought I would post it here for you all to take a look at and maybe add to it. The plugin currently works as is. You can test it using the really bad font I included with the download or use the sIFR Generator to test your own.
Known Bugs: Advanced styling not working properly. Better to style with theme css.
- Plugin version:
- 1.0
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-14
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/sIFR3.zip
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Free Grayscale Textures
As a designer I understand the value of great free textures. Textured images are a great way to add some pizzaz to a design project. That's why I decided to give back to the design community by offering these textures up for free.
I originally shot these images for use in various video projects I had going. Because I used them as video mattes they are all in grayscale. This made it easy to matte the textures to a background to create the desired effect.
Your free to use these textures for personal or commercial work. The only restriction is that the images cannot be redistributed on any other site or as part of a collection for sale or free. You are NOT required to provide a photo credit, but if you can do so without mucking up your project I would love you long time. Please Enjoy!
Share the goodness with a retweet!
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Easy Retweet Plugin
UPDATE: This plugin has been updated! Download the newest version here.
Earlier today, John Resig released a script called Easy Retweet for tracking the number of people visiting his blog from Twitter. It's a stand alone script than can be used anywhere you like. All you need to do is make a link with a class of "retweet" and your done. Of course there are other options available and I encourage you to check John's blog post where he lists all the available options for creating a link.
Since the script was so simple I thought I would make a very simple Mango Blog plugin out of it. The plugin has two possible functions. By default the plugin will create a new sidebar pod and automatically generate the retweet button for any page you include the pod on.
If you don't like the sidebar pod, you can disable it and simply include the retweet script into your template and make links manually in your blog posts or anyplace in your template that you specify.
Note: I barely tested the plugin before posting it, but it all appeard to work in the few themes that I tested it out on. Let me know if you discover any bugs.
Get the Easy Retweet Plugin
- Plugin version:
- 1.0
- Last Updated:
- 2009-07-10
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/EasyRetweet.zip
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CSS Naked Day
A few years ago, Dustin Diaz started a Web Standards movement aimed to promote web standards around the world. He dubbed it CSS Naked Day! A day when websites around the world strip out their css and show off their for a day.
Last year I hard coded a toggle into my website and totally forgot about it until I just happened to go to my website and find the css was gone. My first reaction was to crap a blue twinkie and wonder what had happened. Then I saw the alert at the top of the page telling me it was CSS Naked Day. Imagine my relief.
This year I decided to create a plugin for Mango Blog that automatically removed the css and added the notification message to tell users that it was css naked day.
- Plugin version:
- 1.0
- Last Updated:
- 2009-04-10
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://cssnakedday.riaforge.org/index.cfm?event=action.download
What If I Don't Have Mango Blog
Since not everyone uses mango but may still want to participate in CSS Naked Day with their coldfusion powered blog I thought I would throw in some samples of my code from before the creation of the Mango Plugin. It's really simple but for a CF newbie it might be usefull.
Place this in your <head> and put your css files into it.
<!-- css files here -->
Put this code just inside the <body> tag.
What happened to the design?
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
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