Today we want to share a simple website template with you. The template will show some discography or music albums in a rounded fashion, rotating the albums when clicking on next or previous. When clicking on an album, we will open the album details view which contains a music player (jPlayer) and a playlist of some songs. There is also a description area that can be scrolled.
We will be using the following jQuery plugins and scripts that will help us with the effects and the functionality:
We’ve added some nice music samples from the following artists:
Audiotechnica – Testing
by audiotechnica
Coffeeeurope -Arena Blanca
by Hektor Thillet
Ramblinglibrarian – Our Resolve
by Ivan Chew
Syenta – Emerging Cry
by Syenta
Thanks to the artists for releasing their music under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) Licence!
The initial screen of the template will show some loading element, and we will preload all the images. It will show the album view with the navigation arrows lined up in a diagonal:
When clicking on one of the navigations arrows, we will rotate the album and fade in the next/previous one:
When clicking on one of the albums, we will open the album detail view with a music player, a playlist and some detailed info on the album. The background image will now change to the one we had in the circle of the album before. The music will start automatically with the first song and continue through the playlist:
We hope you like this little template and find it useful!
Cool effect. Thanks for sharing
I use Mozilla Firefox 3.6.16 and i see in the demo a Square.. not Circle..
i though you wanted to know ..
BTW.. fantastic job you do.. Thanks a lot!!
AWESOME
Mary Lou, you’re the most amazing and creative woman I’ve ever known!!
Mary Lou
Safri
firefox 4.0
IE9
Chrome
Opera
Seamonkey is the only one that has squares.
The effects are still lovely even with the squares.
Really nice effect, amazing work. But for the design and usability I am not so sure. The scrolling in the box is not practical, IMHO.
I love what you do….just pure awesomeness.
Very nice design, but I must admit – it wasn’t clear at first that one has to click on the album label to get more information. Maybe make the whole “disc” clickable!
I am seriously blown away with your work and your generosity in sharing it with us! Thank you!
Your code is very clean, thank you for sharing again, and again ?
Awesome!!!
Like This ^_^
I Love U Mary =¤
Is there a fix for firefox? It shows up as a square instead of a circle.
yes, it’s not showing up as a circle in FF… any suggestions? further tutorial?
@TMSMITH
I got it to work in Firefox by adding to the style.css:
Add to this class –
.cd_album{
-moz-border-radius: 270px 270px 270px 270px;
}
~ Harry
PS:
You also need to add it to:
.cd_content
Such an innovation! Well done.
IE8 is not appearing in the circle effect.
Help please?
Hi!! This is awesome! Congrats! …I have a doubt.. Is possible to do this with videos instead mp3?
Hi Mary Lou! Really love this template, it’s beautiful. I tested it here http://sarahjudge.com/kevrocbeats/ and uploaded quite a few songs. Unfortunately, it just loads endlessly. Do the songs get preloaded, too? Is there anything I can do to fix this? I would be really grateful if you could help me out. Thanks so much!
@Sarah,
I think there is a problem loading the second image: GET http://sarahjudge.com/kevrocbeats/images/2.jpg 404 (Not Found)
All the images referenced in data-bgimg should be there otherwise it will not load. Hope it helps, cheers, ML
@ Mary Lou,
Thank you so much for taking the time to find the error. That fixed it. I had the pic as .JPG in the image folder instead of .jpg. I think codrops is excellent btw. It’s one of my favourite resources and has taught me a lot so far. Thanks again! Cheers and have a fantastic week!