Eye-catching website features

To your business website we can add further functionality such as an availability calendar, shopping cart, online booking, blog, user-updatable announcements section, etc.

We can also create banners and slideshows, and set up a Javascript-enhanced gallery to show your photos off at their best. Below are a few examples.

There may be an extra charge for some of the effects depending on the complexity and degree of cusomisation you require.

Slideshow

Display a series of your best images with or without a text overlay. There is a choice of transitions. Below is the fade effect, but it is also possible to slide the photos out to one side. The version below pauses when you mouse over it and stops after looping through the photos a second time. All the photos need to be cropped to the same dimensions (which the Web Design Cottage will do for you).

Dynamic lightbox alternative to the traditional gallery

Click on the thumbnails to see a clickable presentation of larger photos. Mouse over the top right edge of the larger photo to move on, or over the top left edge to move back. There is space in the larger window to add a caption for each photo. This is powered by the JQuery Lightbox plugin.

Flash animated slide shows

With a Flash slide show it is possible to overlay text on the images and to use effects such as panning and zooming as in the example below.

Note that Flash animations will only be visible to people who have the corresponding Flash player installed. Most people do, but not everyone. The Javascript animations seen in the first slideshow and the menus below are more widely supported.

Click to see an example on a live website

Flash banners

The Web Design Cottage can also make animated banners to highlight text messages with a coloured background and a range of text effects.

Animated menus

Spruce up your menu with a touch of animation. Here are four examples. Mouse over the menu items to see the effects.