Fancy News is a jQuery plugin that lets you create an outstanding news slider. It´s highly customizable and very easy to use. You can add umlimited of news with thumbnails. If the post is longer than the height of the main area, a cool scrollbar will be added automatically.
Updates
1.1 – 13. February 2011
- Load an external or internal RSS feed. Could be also a feedburner link. So you can use it with wordpress.
- Multiple usage in one site
Options
- width – The width of the main content area in px(without footer bar)
- height – The height of the main content area in px(without footer bar)
- previewOffset – The offset between each preview in px
- maxWords – The max. numbers of words for each preview text
- previewsPerPage – The numbers of previews per page
- feed – A URL to your RSS feed
- backgroundColor – A string for the background color
- backgroundOverColor – A string for the background color when you move your mouse over a preview
HTML structure
<div id="fancyNews">
<div title="Date"><img src="thumbNailPath.jpg" alt="" /><span title="Title One">YOUR HTML TEXT</span></div>
<!-- Add here more preview container-->
</div>
Credits
Photos used in the previews are from depositphotos.com
Great custom scrollbar:jScrollPane
Enjoy!!!