MooFlow is a highly customizable coverflow-like image gallery that is built with MooTools.

It is easily & automatically setup by mentioning the HTML element that grabs the images.

MooFlow has various features like:

• fullscreen support
• browsing with mouse wheel
• browsing with keyboard
• autoplay & loop
• automated JavaScript image reflections

The script is also flexible when loading the images. The data source can be JSON or HTML with selector-filter.

And, its interface can be totally skinned via CSS.

Web Developer Plus, a blog providing web design/development tips & tutorials, is sharing a slick featured content slider that is built with jQuery & jQuery UI.

It is a tutorial which describes each step (HTML, CSS, JS) & comes with the source files.

The slider auto-changes the displayed content in every x seconds defined & can switch to the clicked item instantly.

In proportion with the size of the "main image", the slider can present a limited number of items (4 in the example).

It is also a proof of "how jQuery UI can help creating beautiful stuff with a very little JavaScript".

Slideshow JS is a free JavaScript library which helps creating an image slideshow with ease.

It is totally configurable via markup & does not require any scripting. Although the download package comes with various styles, the look & feel of the slideshow can be completely customized.

The library is built with jQuery & it is unobtrusive. It offers several options like:

• number of seconds each image will be displayed
• if the images will be displayed automatically or manually
• image counter & controls activation
• if the images will be displayed randomly or in an order
• & more..

P.S. Don’t let the blury images in the demo fool you. With quality images, the script offers a nice presentation.

Flabell is presenting a free Flash-XML slideshow which can be customized with ease.

Images presented are displayed with a blur effect & the color of the navigation bar can change on every image (using the colors of that image can be a good idea - set manually in the XML file).

For every image, you can also define:

• URLs, when they are clicked
• target to be _blank or not
• transparency of the navigation bar

The slideshow comes with the source file (.FLA) & in order to download it, a free membership is required.

Supersized is a jQuery plugin that resizes images/backgrounds to fit the whole screen & display them as a slideshow.

No extra whitespace or scrollbars occur as the entire browser window is always filled.

The plugin preloads the images and offers various transition effects for presenting them.

An optional prev-next-pause control makes navigating easier & with the help of options provided, Supersize can be easily customized.

Piwigo is an open source photo gallery system built with PHP & MySQL.

It is more a photo portal software as new users can register to the system & according to their permission levels, they can add more photos, comment & more.

Piwigo is very flexible in means of adding photos to the system. They can be added via pLoader (the remote client of Piwigo), mass uploading by FTP or the application can call them from any other servers transparently.

With the unlimited category-levels support, images can be organized easily. And, with the ability of tagging them, it just gets better.

A great feature is chronology. Piwigo reads EXIF data, understands when an image is taken & shows them in a chronologic order.

The application has also multilanguage support, can produce pretty URLs & an API makes integrations with any 3rd party applications possible.

GalleryView is a jQuery plugin for creating any type of content galleries including images or HTML.

It offers a wide list of configuration options from widths/heights to colors used.

The plugin simply converts an unordered list into a gallery. You can enable/disable captions which are produced from the alt tags.

By updating few images, new themes can be created easily. For several different demos, click here, here & here.

A factor which cannot be overlooked when designing websites, brochures or e-magazines is the all important font type.

Designers need to carefully select the font that best fits the style of the publication, is legible and perhaps a little different from the norm.

There are plenty of retro and urban fonts available for download, however many are very expensive. For those on a limited budget, here are some amazing free urban and retro fonts.

Victor Moscoso

This funky retro font is based on the 1960’s psychedelic poster lettering of Victor Moscoso. It is hard not to think of Cadillac’s and American diners when looking at this font. Compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, it is free for personal use and contains a full set of characters and numbers.

Watson

Watson is a retro font that still has the wow factor but is also simple and elegant. The lettering is skinny and some of the characters appear three dimensional. Best of all it’s completely free to use, compatible with Windows and Mac computers and contains a full set of characters and numbers.

Thuphap

Categorised as a brush font, Thuphap looks like freehand writing. The ink weight varies on the curves of the letters, as it would naturally do if you were writing on a piece of paper. It is completely free to use, compatible with Windows and Mac Computers and contains a full set of characters and numbers, including several special letters.

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GMFoto is an open source photo gallery script, built with PHP & does not require a database.

With the template & multi-user support, the script offers a wide-usage from a single installation.

Images can be added by uploading via FTP or with KFM. They will be compressed and resized automatically.

GMFoto provides an unlimited category logic which can be created when uploading images as every folder is a category.

Images are displayed in a Lightbox and can be browsed easily with prev-next buttons.

Although the script is in early beta, it is a very promising one.

Pikachoose is a jQuery image gallery plugin for presenting images smoothly & easily.

It displays the thumbnails of the images (which can be set to be staticly resized from the original image or created manually) & enables users to browse the gallery by clicking on the images, via pre-next buttons or with the auto-play feature.

The plugin can display the image captions & any type of HTML can be used in the captions (like links).

Pikachoose is very easy to setup, an unordered list with id="pikachoose" will turn into an image gallery. Any other options are defined in a single-line function.