Question

I’m considering attempting a redesign of a flash website with jquery effects and transitions in place. I just wanted to reach out to the community to maybe see how feasible this really is considering the particular transitions and effects this website has.

Here’s the link:

http://antonynicoli.com/english.html

The gallery I guess can be recreated by carousel plugin, but there are so many out there so maybe could suggest a stable one that would be be best suited to this job. The other items that really caught my attention in which I wouldn’t really know where to start is the navbar and the effect that looks like a book opening when you click on a link on the navbar. Any and all input would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

This is probably doable, but I’m wondering about the motivations behind changing to an HTML/jQuery solution when it looks pretty good right now (as Brad pointed out above, it would require a total rework). I see a couple of things going on:

• Carousel: jCarousel (http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/) (never used it but it is popular)
• Animations: jQuery Animate (http://api.jquery.com/animate/)
• Other widgets/interactions: jQueryUI: (http://www.jqueryui.com)

Not sure how you would go about the open-book animation, but I suspect you could accomplish it with some clever jQuery animations.

The best way to see if it could be done is: start doing it! jQuery has tons of resources and you’ll get good help here on StackOverflow.