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Pure CSS galleries and slideshows

CSS Image Gallery allows you to create cool pure CSS galleries and slideshows with a fluent navigation and image transitions. Due to its CSS nature it is fully customizable and fits in any site design. You can even create a fancy slideshow with automatic thumbnail popup navigation.

The gallery complies with the latest web standards and is fully JavaScript unobtrusive, meaning that the images will always be displayed, even if your users don’t use JavaScript. Therefore this is the ultimate search engine friendly CSS gallery.

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Features

Features in Detail

  • Pure CSS Gallery
    The gallery is created using CSS it doesn't require any plugins and works on all modern browsers

  • Web standards based
    The gallery complies to the latest web standards of the W3C


  • Gallery size adjusts to image size

    • When having different image sizes the gallery size will automatically resize to the size of the selected image
      check out the demo

  • Smart Preloading of Images
    Every image has its own fancy preloader to indicate the loading process. Furthermore the gallery loads only the images that need to be displayed, instead of loading the complete gallery which saves bandwidth and improves performance


  • Great thumbnail navigation and image transitions
    Navigate using thumbnails and enjoy the great fade and motion effects that are displayed when browsing to the gallery



  • Add Titles and Descriptions to each image
    You can easily add a title and description to each image as caption! When the image is shown the caption will nicely slide in over the image in the desired color, font and transparacy. All CSS based.

  • JavaScript Unobtrusive
    Images will always display correctly, even if your users don't use JavaScript or have a very old browser

  • Intelligent Scaling
    The gallery automatically adjusts to the images aspect ratio


    Check out the demo read more

  • Search Engine Friendly
    Due to the advanced incorporated technology this gallery is the ultimate search engine friendly gallery so the gallery titles and descriptions are well indexed by search engines




  • Customize your gallery
    • Change the looks of the gallery in Dreamweaver without coding
    • Add links to the main image and (optionally) open it in a new window with Advanced Layer Popup
    • Advanced users can customize the gallery anyway they like by customizing the supplied CSS file with help of the detailed documentation that lists the important classes and properties


  • Automatically generated thumbnails

    • Auto generate your thumbnails with the correct size while proportions are maintained and crop them if needed using Dreamweaver or Fireworks

  • Slideshow option with automatic thumbnail popup

    • Create great slideshows with auto play and automatic thumbnail popup


  • Images are resized while constraining proportions

    • Original images can be automatically resized to fit the specified size while the proportions are maintained using Fireworks

  • Integrated in Dreamweaver

    • interactive dialog in Dreamweaver with all the options you'll need;



    • an inline property inspector so that you can easily change visual options later on


Preview in Dreamweaver You can see a preview within Dreamweaver of how your gallery will look like and navigate within the photos!

Showcases

Videos

Basic Usage

Creating a Cool Image Gallery that Retrieves Images from a Folder List

With this movie we will show you how easily you can create your CSS Image Gallery and have it retrieve its images from a File Genie PHP/ASP Folder List using Folder List Repeater.

Bundle Usage

Show your Images in a Cool Lightbox

With this movie we will show you how easily you can show the images from CSS Image Gallery in DMXzone Lightbox for greater user experience.


Creating a CSS Image Gallery within a Lightbox

With this movie we will show you how easily you can use CSS Image Gallery within DMXzone Lightbox.

Combine CSS Image Gallery and Advanced Tooltips

With this movie we will show you how to combine CSS Image Gallery and Advanced Tooltips for the best presentation experience of your gallery.

Using the DMXzone CSS Image Gallery and Flash MP3 Player

With this movie we will show you how easily you can play different sounds for each image using the DMXzone CSS Image Gallery and Flash MP3 Player.

Requirements

Type: Suite
License: External link
Product: Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5/CS5.5 and CS6, Dreamweaver CC+
Platform: Win XP/2000/2003/2008/7, Mac OS X 10.4+
Browser: IE 6, Netscape 9, Opera 9, Firefox 1.5, Safari 2.0, IE 7, Safari 3, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+

History

Version 1.1.5

  • Full Dreamweaver CC and Extension Manager CC support
  • Included new Behavior Connector with restyled UI and better Mac OSX Support
  • Updated the automatic file copy and update component for better Dreamweaver CC support
  • Improved compatibility with the latest jQuery
  • Included latest jQuery 1.10.1
  • Improved Windows 8 compatibility

Version 1.1.4

  • Improved integration with dynamic data
  • Improved DW integration
  • Included the latest mouse wheel plug-in
  • Latest jQuery 1.7.2 included
  • Improved DMXzone Behavior Connector and other behaviors from DMXzone extensions
  • Improved installer for Mac DW CS6

Version 1.1.3

  • Greatly improved Safari & Chrome support
  • Improved image preloading in the gallery for the fastest visual response
  • Updated the mouse wheel support
  • Improved Dreamweaver integration
  • Optimized file size for faster loading
  • Improved extension installation for DW CS5.5+

Version 1.1.2

  • Latest DMXzone Image Resizer included for the best performance
  • Improved compatibility with newest jQuery 1.6+ versions
  • Improved mouse wheel handling for the newest jQuery
  • Included latest jQuery 1.6.3
  • Optimized source and files for smaller size
  • Improved automatic shared file copy, synchronization and upload from Dreamweaver
  • Improved working in Dreamweaver templates

Version 1.1.1

  • Improved initial gallery visibility - now the gallery is shown directly in the right layout
  • Smaller JavaScript files by better compression
  • Improved jQuery version recognition and include
  • Improved related files include method
  • Compatibility now with site root relative links Dreamweaver option for making all includes site root relative

Version 1.1.0

  • New automatic dependent file updater
  • Included new jQuery 1.4.4
  • Improved depended file includes
  • Improvements with the behavior connector events
  • Improved DMXzone Image resizer for Mac OSX
  • Improved support for Windows 7
  • Even faster resizing by using all the available cores of the CPU's
  • Improved working in Dreamweaver templates

Version 1.0.9

  • Improved compatibility with Sliding Panels
  • Optimized jQuery code to even smaller file size
  • Improved compatibility with jQuery 1.4
  • Improved Dreamweaver CS5 installer
DMXzone Image Resizer used by CSS Image Gallery in Dreamweaver:
  • Improved Vista and Windows 7 support for faster image resize with multi threading
  • Greatly improved GIF resize support - now colors are quantized for best quality

Version 1.0.8

  • Improved IE8 compatibility
  • Improved Mouse Wheel scrolling for the thumbnails and main image – scrolling is much smoother now
  • Improved DMXzone Resizer for the Mac OSX platform
  • Various speed improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.0.7

  • Fixed auto scroll to the gallery (giving it focus on load) 
  • Updated DMXzone Behavior Connector

Version 1.0.6

  • Improved the build-in Image Resizer for Mac OSX
  • Updated DMXzone Behavior Connector for seamless integration with Advanced Layer Popup and DMXzone Lightbox
  • Improved browser support when using Behavior connector events

Version 1.0.5

  • New DMXzone Image Resizer included. This is our own super fast, multithreaded image processor for Dreamweaver, that will resize your images and make thumbnails in an eye blink. No need for Fireworks any more.
  • Full support of the new DMXzone Behavior Connector : Add interactive components and behaviors to your CSS Image Gallery such as Advanced Tooltips, Advanced Layer Popup or Flash MP3 Player.
  • Control the CSS Image Gallery with your own customized interface, using behaviors.
  • Interface improvements
  • Installer Improvements
  • New jQuery 1.3.2 included

Update Procedure:

1. Open one page that use the CSS Image Gallery in Dreamweaver
2. Select the CSS Image Gallery on your page and then change something from the Inspector. Like move the current image selection forward and then back.
3. You should see some alerts about updated files, make sure you upload these to your live server and you are ready

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