JavaScript Catalog Slideshow v1.0

Display your catalogs or books in an elegant, mobile-friendly format.

JavaScript Catalog Slideshow is a jQuery plugin that creates a book-like slideshow using an array of images.  The array allows the user to easily add or interchange spreads/pages in the middle of the book or catalog.  It works on every modern browser including IE.  It zooms in on each page of a spread separately, to maximize the area available for the zoom, thereby rendering text and images more clearly. Its dependencies are jQuery and the jQuery Fancybox plugin.  

The biggest difference between this slideshow and others is that it lays out two pages or images side-by-side in order to create a spread.  It also displays single pages for the front cover and back covers.  JavaScript catalog slideshow is ideal for displaying print catalogs on the web without relying on a Flash flip book, which is not compatible with many mobile devices.  It also does not include one of those ubiquitous page flip animations.


Features:

- Simple markup using two divs
- Populates your slideshow with an array to easily add or interchange spreads/pages
- Zoom-in effect can be highly customized according to Fancybox options
- Works on all modern browsers including mobile devices
- Next/Previous control buttons
- Example and usage instructions included


Instructions:

Download the entire repository as a zip or tar (https://github.com/veronicaduo/JavaScript-catalog-slideshow) and make the following changes to replace the example with your own catalog/images:

1. Images:

Name your images: imageName.jpg
Name your thumbs: imageNameThmb.jpg

Put them in the folder called "images."

2. slideshow.js:

Populate the array with your own image names in your desired order (exclude the .jpg extension):

var pages = ['imageName1', 'imageName2', 'imageName3', 'imageName4'];

Change the dimensions for the following variables to those of your thumbnails:

var pageWidth = 500;
var pageHeight = 575;

3. style.css:

Adjust the width of #rightPage and #leftPage to equal your thumbnail size.  

Adjust the width of #catalog to twice the width of your thumbnails.

Adjust the width of #wrapper to  twice the width of your thumbnails plus 45px, which is padding for the buttons

4. index.html:

Change the name of the images inside the rightPage div to your cover image and thumbnail.

<div id="rightPage"><a href="images/img1.jpg"><img src="images/img1Thmb.jpg" /></a></div>

Run index.html to see your catalog slideshow in action!


License:

Licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2012 Veronica Lemcoff, http://www.bahiadesigns.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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