jQuery Slideshow

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jQuery Slideshow is a performant and developer friendlyimage slideshow and content carousel plugin with support for touch gestures. 2KB when gzipped.

Setup

Setup is not restricted to a fixed markup pattern. Theoretically almost any content can be placed within a slide. If you are using images you should always specify the width and height attributes so that layout calculations can be done without waiting for the assets to finish downloading.

<div class="slideshow">
 <ul class="carousel">
 <li class="slide">…</li>
 <li class="slide">…</li>
 <li class="slide">…</li>
 </ul>
</div>

The plugin is instantiated in the usual manner and an instances API can be accessed via element data.

// Create slideshow instances
var $slideshow = $('.slideshow').slides(),

 // Access an instance API
 api = $slideshow.data('slides');

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Options

Global options can be specified via the standard jQuery plugin interface or as data attributes on individual slideshow elements. Remember that camelCase options should be written as hyphen-separated attributes, for example the hoverPause option would be defined on the element with the data-hover-pause attribute.

<div class="slideshow"
 data-pagination="true"
 data-loop="false"
 data-transition="crossfade">

Setup

carousel

Selector for the carousel element. Default: ".carousel".

items

Selector for carousel items. Default: ".slide".

slideWidth

Set a fixed width for each slide. Default: false.

jumpQueue

Allow .to() method while animations are queued. Default: true.

offset

Starting slide. Default: 1.

Controls

skip

Render next/previous skip buttons. Default: true.

pagination

Render pagination. Default: true.

auto

Autoplay timeout in milliseconds. Set to a falsy value for no autoplay. Default:6000.

autostop

Stop autoplay when user manually changes slide. Default: true.

hoverPause

Pause autoplay on hover. Default: false.

loop

Allow slideshow to loop. Default: false.

nextText

Text to display on next skip button. Default: "Next".

previousText

Text to display on previous skip button. Default: "Previous".

Transitions

transition

Specify transition (crossfade or scroll). Default: "scroll".

speed

Animation speed between slides in milliseconds. Default: 600.

easing

Animation easing between slides. Default: "swing".

visible

Approximate number of slides visible (scroll transition only). Default: 1.

Callbacks

onupdate

A callback function to execute on slide change. Default: false.

oncomplete

A callback function to execute on slide transition complete. Default: false.

If callbacks are specified as data attributes they must reference functions within the global (window) namespace.

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Public methods

.hasNext()

Are there any slides after current item or can the carousel be scrolled any further (ignores loop). Returns boolean.

.hasPrevious()

Are there any slides previous to current item (ignores loop). Returns boolean.

.next()

Go to the next slide.

.previous()

Go to previous slide.

.to(index)

Go to slide. Index Slide position.

.redraw([transition])

Redraw the carousel. Transition New transition style.

.play()

Start autoplay.

.pause()

Pause autoplay.

.stop()

Stop autoplay entirely.

jQuery Slideshow

Drag-Based Component for Slider, Carousel, Scroller (Dragdealer)

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JS API

Here are the options, callbacks and methods Dragdealer supports, but you can read the source code for more information.

Constructor

• Dragdealer(wrapper, options=) Accepts an id or a DOM reference for the wrapper element. See possible options below.

Options

• bool disabled=false Init Dragdealer in a disabled state. The handle will have a .disabled class.


• bool horizontal=true Enable horizontal dragging.


• bool vertical=false Enable vertical dragging.


• number x=0 Initial horizontal (left) position. Accepts a float number value between 0 and 1.


• number y=0 Initial vertical (top) position. Accepts a float number value between 0 and 1.


• number steps=0 Limit the positioning of the handle within the bounds of the wrapper, by defining a virtual grid made out of a number of equally-spaced steps. This restricts placing the handle anywhere in-between these steps. E.g. setting 3 steps to a regular slider will only allow you to move it to the left, to the right or exactly in the middle.


• bool snap=false When a number of steps is set, snap the position of the handle to its closest step instantly, even when dragging.


• bool slide=true Slide handle after releasing it, depending on the movement speed before the mouse/touch release.


• bool loose=false Loosen-up wrapper boundaries when dragging. This allows the handle to be *slightly* dragged outside the bounds of the wrapper, but slides it back to the margins of the wrapper upon release.


• number top=0 Top padding between the wrapper and the handle.


• number bottom=0 Bottom padding between the wrapper and the handle.


• number left=0 Left padding between the wrapper and the handle.


• number right=0 Right padding between the wrapper and the handle.


• fn callback(x, y) Called when releasing handle, with the projected x, y position of the handle. Projected value means the value the slider will have after finishing a sliding animation, caused by either a step restriction or drag motion (see steps and slide options.)


• fn animationCallback(x, y) Called every animation loop, as long as the handle is being dragged or in the process of a sliding animation. The x, y positional values received by this callback reflect the exact position of the handle DOM element, which includes exceeding values (even negative values) when the loose option is set true.


• string handleClass=handle Custom class of handle element.


• bool css3=true Use css3 transform in modern browsers instead of absolute positioning.


• bool requestAnimationFrame=false Animate with requestAnimationFrame or setTimeout polyfill instead of default setInterval animation.

Methods

• disable Disable dragging of a Dragdealer instance. Just as with the disabled option, the handle will receive a .disabled class


• enable Enable dragging of a Dragdealer instance. The .disabled class of the handle will be removed.


• reflow Recalculate the wrapper bounds of a Dragdealer instance, used when the wrapper is responsive and its parent container changed its size, or after changing the size of the wrapper directly.


• getValue Get the value of a Dragdealer instance programatically. The value is returned as an [x, y] tuple and is the equivalent of the projected value returned by the regular callback, not animationCallback.


• getStep Same as getValue, but the value returned is in step increments (see steps option)


• setValue(x, y, snap=false) Set the value of a Dragdealer instance programatically. The 3rd parameter allows to snap the handle directly to the desired value, without any sliding transition.


• setStep(x, y, snap=false) Same as setValue, but the value is received in step increments (seesteps option)

Just a slider

A slider is just a user control, the power lies in the value it represents. For this reason theanimationCallback is your biggest ally, with it you tie the user input to any visualization you can think of. This is the most boring example.

new Dragdealer('just-a-slider', 
 animationCallback: function(x, y) 
 $('#just-a-slider .value').text(Math.round(x * 100));
 
);

Content scroller

Controlling a different element is a straightforward use-case for Dragdealer. It’s basic math. Let’s spice it up with some vertical movement.

var availHeight = $('.content-body').outerHeight() -
 $('.content-mask').outerHeight();
new Dragdealer('content-scroller', 
 horizontal: false,
 vertical: true,
 yPrecision: availHeight,
 animationCallback: function(x, y) 
 $('.content-body').css('margin-top', -y * availHeight);
 
);

“slide to unlock”

This is how this project started, somebody wanted an iPhone-like slider. Classic.

new Dragdealer('slide-to-unlock-old', 
 steps: 2,
 callback: function(x, y) 
 // Only 0 and 1 are the possible values because of "steps: 2"
 if (x) 
 this.disable();
 $('#slide-to-unlock-old').fadeOut();
 
 
);

Image carousel

Let’s kick it up a notch. How about a touch-ready image carousel… piece of cake. The entire string of images will be the draggable handle, masked by a wrapper the size of a single image (a slide.)

new Dragdealer('image-carousel', 
 steps: 4,
 speed: 0.3,
 loose: true,
 requestAnimationFrame: true
);

Interactive canvas mask

With Dragdealer you can go from creating a simple slider to an entire website. I’m only saying this because I’ve seen more than a few examples of full-window implementations.

var canvasMask = new Dragdealer('canvas-mask', 
 x: 0,
 // Start in the bottom-left corner
 y: 1,
 vertical: true,
 speed: 0.2,
 loose: true,
 requestAnimationFrame: true
);

// Bind event on the wrapper element to prevent it when a drag has been made
// between mousedown and mouseup (by stopping propagation from handle)
$('#canvas-mask').on('click', '.menu a', function(e) 
 e.preventDefault();
 var anchor = $(e.currentTarget);
 canvasMask.setValue(anchor.data('x'), anchor.data('y'));
);

 

Drag-Based Component for Slider, Carousel, Scroller (Dragdealer)

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In a job you are an employee and not in direct contact with the client. You don’t have to bother about payments and other important things, your boss does the needful. Being a freelance web designers is totally different. Here you are your own boss. You have to deal with the clients which asks you to be smart enough to handle them wisely.

Talking about signing a contract, it is an important thing to do before you finally take up a project. Even if you are a friend with your client and share a good rapport with them, it is important to sign the contract which is prepared very carefully.

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2. Not Knowing Your Worth

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3. Not Delivering in Parts

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4. Not Being Able To Make Out If Your Client Won’t Pay

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5. Working Round The Clock

I don’t deny the fact that designers need to devote lots of time in front of their systems to complete the projects on given time period and try out lot many things to finally choose which font, theme, tool they will use but that doesn’t mean they have to work round the clock and get sleep deprived. Also, working in the monotonous routine lessens down the productivity and make you feel bored.

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6. Giving up Easily

Starting the online web design business is easy but on moving further many designers fail to cope up and with few downfalls tend to feel like a failure thereby loosing hope to make a career in the field of designing. In the field of deigning, one needs to be quite patient and just keep moving.

These are the common mistakes designers tend to make and should be avoided at any cost to be successful freelance designer. Even if you are new in the field or have spent many years, you should focus on increasing your productivity and work the smart way by avoiding these above mentioned mistakes.

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Anyways here in this topic you will find free and premium blank WordPress themes which are useful for your website.

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Example

using functions.php to illustrate…

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Features

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• Bootstrap


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The HTML5 Blank WordPress Theme is a web-performance optimized blank WordPress theme for developers. Endowed with useful custom theme functions like dynamic sidebar as well as boilerplate code for using WordPress’s Shortcode API in your themes, this is one cool theme.

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