What's Collage?
Collage builds
great looking thumbnails from your images,
styles them all with slick graphical
effects, and links them to other content on
your site. With Collage you can add smooth
Javascript animations like lightbox
effects, slideshows, or a pop-up hovering
info box. And you don't have to be an
computer guru to do it. Just drag in a few
images, select a style, and publish.
Always In Style
Collage makes it
easy to take a bunch of chaotic images
and style them all in a consistent
beautiful page. Collage comes with built
in styles that only require one-click to
apply. Don't be fooled though, Collage
lets you tweak and tinker with your
styles all you want. There are dozens of
ways to change backgrounds, reflections,
drop-shadows, overlays, and just about
anything else you can think of.
Collage Web 2.0
We've added lots
of fun animation effects to Collage. With
a single click you can add a LightBox
effect, create a slide-show of your
images, or add a hovering info box. All
our effects are based on cross-platform
Javascript, use the latest AJAX
techniques, and since they don't rely on
Flash, they even work on iPhone.
One Click
Publishing stylish images
couldn't be easier. Select from a variety
of included styles and click Apply. All the
overlays, drop-shadows, reflections and
effects are added to your images. There's
no need to fiddle with any settings at
all... unless you want to of course.
Lots of Knobs
If you want more
control over your images then we've got
lots of knobs for you to turn. Choose
from background colors, borders, rounded
corners, drop-shadows, reflections, and
more. And everything has a few settings
so that you can build exactly the web
page that you need.
Live Preview
With so many
settings it can be easy to get lost. So
we built a live-preview of all of the
graphical effects. As you tweak the knobs
you can see the effects rendered onto
your images in real time.
Light-what?
A light box is an
animated image effect that zooms a large
image onto the screen. Scaling it up so
that it almost fills the entire window. And
to make the image really stand out the rest
of the content is darkened. The extra
contrast makes your images look their best.
One Click
To enable the light box
effect just click on checkbox. Collage
automatically adds all the necessary
Javascript, creates big (but not too big)
images, and puts the whole page together.
All you have to do is click and enjoy.
No Flash
Flash is great for some
things, but it comes with a downside. It
requires a special plugin on some
browsers, you have to make sure you have
the right versions, and of course, it
doesn't work at all on an iPhone. That's
why we build all our effects with pure
Javascript. It's a built-in part of every
browser and our Javascript library works
all the way back to older platforms like
IE6 on Windows 2000. And, of course, it
works on an iPhone.
#1 Request
Our most requested
feature has always been a way to connect
photo slideshows into Collage. Now you can.
And you can do it just by enabling the
effect with one click. Now all your images
can be shown in a lightbox environment with
controls that mimic slideshows in Mac OS X.
It's easy, it's got slick animation, and it
makes your images look great.
In Control
Some web slideshows
just don't have the fit and finish that
Mac users expect. Our slideshow has
controls that feel like you're using
QuickLook in Mac OS X. And if you're not
using them they even fade out slowly so
there's not a single distraction from the
images.
Easy
Adding a slideshow is super
easy. All the images that you use in
Collage will automatically be scaled to
the right size, uploaded to the server,
linked with powerful Javascript, and
loaded with the latest AJAX techniques.
All those complications are taken care of
for you, so you can focus on what really
matters, your content.
No Guru Needed
A lot of people pay
big bucks to have Javascript gurus build
customized scripts for their pages to do
showy stuff. Now you can get all the snazzy
animation, but without the guru. Hover
boxes let you add a pop-up info box that
jumps into view when the user drags their
mouse over your image. It's a great way to
give your users lots of extra info without
cluttering up the design of the page.
Try Before You Click
Hover boxes
give a user feedback about a link even
before clicking. It drives people to
quickly explore all your links and visit
only what they're really looking for.
Helping your users find what they need is
the best way to keep them happy.
Any Box You Like
A hover box can
be big enough to add a whole paragraph of
info or small enough that it's barely
noticeable, it's your choice. Add
borders, a big bold background color and
change up the fonts. Make your hover box
fit the style of your page.