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Archive for June, 2010

Being a showcase for the Flash work of Untold Entertainment, the image slider is used as the main focus of the home page and displays his latest projects. Continuing from the first two tutorials, I’ll now show you how to create this slider with jQuery.

We’ll be treating the slider as a separate element from our Twitter bar before, so no need to use old code here.

With the abundance of jQuery image gallery plugins and scripts it’s safe to say that jQuery makes this sort of thing in particular run a lot more smoothly than with plain JavaScript. This section will be the easiest part of the series.

Let’s dive in. Read More »

Carrying on from the first part of creating a Flash-less home page on Untold Entertainment, we add to the tutorial on animating Twitter text with some more usability and style.

We start off by generating links (to URLs and Twitter pages) inside the text, make a couple of buttons to skip the tweets backwards and forwards, then animate the Twitter bird and speech bubble as a background. Read More »