Miter Box Slider

I submitted a jQuery plugin to CodeCanyon before this past weekend started, and this morning I received an “it’s been accepted” email. If you’re not already familiar with it, CodeCanyon is a marketplace for code. It allows anyone to submit a piece of code to sell. If accepted, they set the price and take a cut of any profits. It’s part of the larger Envato marketplace, which includes areas for selling things like site designs and audio clips.

Miter Box Slider is my submission. It’s a jQuery ’slider’ plugin (i.e. when there’s a slideshow display of images at websites). What’s awesome about it is that it provides the ability to create truly unique animation transitions. With other sliders you’ll see a set of predefined transition effects, but with Miter Box, you create the transitions. It’s actually very powerful. One of the largest issues I had developing it was that I would often end up just playing with it. It’s a fun tool for experimenting.

Regardless of whether other people decide to use it, I really am pretty proud of it. Remember that those who run the site review the code and set the price? Right now, mine is the highest priced (one of only two at that price) item in the javascript section of code. I don’t know everything that goes into that price point, but I will say that I think it’s an indication of the power my plugin offers.

If you’ve got a site, or create sites, and are looking for some way to spice up the way you display your images, check out the Miter Box demo.