YUI Slideshow is a YUI3 module which enables us to convert any HTML element’s children into animated slideshows.

It comes with a bunch of configuration options to customize the slider like:

• animations used (for both incoming & outgoing slides)
• intervals between each image
• duration of them
• autoplay
• & more..

The module has play/pause/previous/next controls for easily creating a player interface.

10+ different animation types can be choosen from various fade & swipe effects.

It is also possible to create advanced & custom animations where an example is already provided.

Horinaja is a free slideshow script that comes in two versions: scriptaculous/Prototype or jQuery.

It slides contents inside an unordered list wrapped with a div whose class="horinaja".

The script has support for mouse wheel that only works when the slideshow is hovered which is a nice feature for not locking the scroll-bar of the browser.

It is possible to enable/disable slide numbers & define the seconds between transitions.

Monoslideshow, a beautiful & customizable Flash image / video viewer, is giving away 3 licenses (€ 25 value/license) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details on joining the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post.

What is Monoslideshow?

It is a flexible XML-driven Flash image & video viewer to easily display them on your website with style.

Whether a professional portfolio or a simple image rotator, Monoslideshow can handle them all.

With over 500 options like:

• dimensions
• custom fonts
• enable/disable startup logo
• background sounds per media

& 10+ professional effects, creating something unique is not difficult. Also, besides the XML file, various settings can be configured via the JavaScript & AS3 API.

The media presented in Monoslideshow can be categorized inside albums & quickly switched between with a "click" for faster browsing.

Another great feature is the RSS support which makes it possible to create image slideshows from Flickr, etc.

How To Win The Free Licenses?

You have 2 options to join the giveaway where you can do both of them to increase the chance of winning:

• comment to this post with at least "I want the license" text besides any other comment
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Winners will be selected randomly on 10 August 2009 (1 week later).

Good luck to all.

For every e-commerce website, web application or even a standard website, knowledgebases are very useful systems for helping users to find answers themselves.

68KB is a free knowledgebase application that is built with PHP & MySQL & can be themed to match the look of any website.

It has support for unlimited categories/sub-categories & SEO friendly URLs. Also, features like an "integrated glossary", "popular & new articles" makes browsing much easier.

With the help of an admin interface, it is possible to manage the system easily, view the stats, search logs & more.

68KB is multilingual & built with the CodeIgniter framework.

MooFlow is a highly customizable coverflow-like image gallery that is built with MooTools.

It is easily & automatically setup by mentioning the HTML element that grabs the images.

MooFlow has various features like:

• fullscreen support
• browsing with mouse wheel
• browsing with keyboard
• autoplay & loop
• automated JavaScript image reflections

The script is also flexible when loading the images. The data source can be JSON or HTML with selector-filter.

And, its interface can be totally skinned via CSS.

Web Developer Plus, a blog providing web design/development tips & tutorials, is sharing a slick featured content slider that is built with jQuery & jQuery UI.

It is a tutorial which describes each step (HTML, CSS, JS) & comes with the source files.

The slider auto-changes the displayed content in every x seconds defined & can switch to the clicked item instantly.

In proportion with the size of the "main image", the slider can present a limited number of items (4 in the example).

It is also a proof of "how jQuery UI can help creating beautiful stuff with a very little JavaScript".

Slideshow JS is a free JavaScript library which helps creating an image slideshow with ease.

It is totally configurable via markup & does not require any scripting. Although the download package comes with various styles, the look & feel of the slideshow can be completely customized.

The library is built with jQuery & it is unobtrusive. It offers several options like:

• number of seconds each image will be displayed
• if the images will be displayed automatically or manually
• image counter & controls activation
• if the images will be displayed randomly or in an order
• & more..

P.S. Don’t let the blury images in the demo fool you. With quality images, the script offers a nice presentation.

Flabell is presenting a free Flash-XML slideshow which can be customized with ease.

Images presented are displayed with a blur effect & the color of the navigation bar can change on every image (using the colors of that image can be a good idea – set manually in the XML file).

For every image, you can also define:

• URLs, when they are clicked
• target to be _blank or not
• transparency of the navigation bar

The slideshow comes with the source file (.FLA) & in order to download it, a free membership is required.

Supersized is a jQuery plugin that resizes images/backgrounds to fit the whole screen & display them as a slideshow.

No extra whitespace or scrollbars occur as the entire browser window is always filled.

The plugin preloads the images and offers various transition effects for presenting them.

An optional prev-next-pause control makes navigating easier & with the help of options provided, Supersize can be easily customized.

Piwigo is an open source photo gallery system built with PHP & MySQL.

It is more a photo portal software as new users can register to the system & according to their permission levels, they can add more photos, comment & more.

Piwigo is very flexible in means of adding photos to the system. They can be added via pLoader (the remote client of Piwigo), mass uploading by FTP or the application can call them from any other servers transparently.

With the unlimited category-levels support, images can be organized easily. And, with the ability of tagging them, it just gets better.

A great feature is chronology. Piwigo reads EXIF data, understands when an image is taken & shows them in a chronologic order.

The application has also multilanguage support, can produce pretty URLs & an API makes integrations with any 3rd party applications possible.