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Image zooming within a website? Help!
Written By RightOn on Apr. 29, 2008.
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My boss contacted me last night wanting to include a feature similar to one he saw online @ David's Bridal into our website and I can't find anything decent enough to mimic it so far in my searches.
What he's looking for is something like the photograph of the product, that allows you to zoom into the image to better see detailed areas.
I don't do Flash so that's out of the question and I'm not to find MooTools or extensive Javascripting EASY by all means.
Does anyone know of a WordPress plugin that will do this or a script I can include that will do something like this?
Thanks!
Clarkey
Written Apr. 29, 2008 / Report /
Righton, It's probably not what you're looking for but have you thought about lightbox
It doesn't have the functionality of the example you included but it does at least allow people to click on an image and have it pop up as a zoomed version.
Just a thought.
Clarkey.
RightOn
Written Apr. 29, 2008 / Report /
Yeah we use lightbox on images that have both a back and a front... he's looking for a way to zoom for details without loading a pop up.
carmodyarc
Written Apr. 29, 2008 / Report /
Well, the only thing I can say is that it's done with Flash on the example you showed. You'd probably need to find someone who deals with Flash quite a bit as I've never come across any plugin or add-on that can replicate that effect.
markupninjas
Written May. 1, 2008 / Report /
Maybe not a plugin, but surely theres some zoomish things you can do with Jquery? I know you can do dragging, and zooming I've done before with CSS and Jquery. The thing I'd be worried about is that without flash, your gonna smack right into the issue that, without some super advanced ajaxy type stuff, it'll load the 100% zoomed version shrunk, and then expand as needed. So even if they don't zoom, it'll load the zoomed version. Does that make any sense? Haha, clear as mud right ;)
RightOn
Written May. 1, 2008 / Report /
I've found a possible solution in CSS/JavaScript...
http://eatyourgreens.org.uk/archives/2007/08/adding_a_magnif.html
Thanks to the Best of April from new 9Rules Member site Smashing Magazine... I think they're spying on my brain because that ONE post helped me on 6 different issues :)