AnythingSlider is a jQuery slider plugin which can present any HTML content.

It can display any number of slides where navigation tabs are generated automatically.

The interface has next/previous buttons, can optionally start on initial load & display all slides infinitely.

Another great feature is the hashtags for all content which makes it possible to link directly to a specific slide.

The animation & delay between each slide can also be set with ease.

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?

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• 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.