A Beautiful Website

[in the process of updating this for Silverlight 2.0 beta]  

The goal of this project is to create a cool set of controls that when mixed together results in a “Beautiful Website”

I frequently traverse the websphere and sometimes i find a gem of a website, Apple’s website is one of these gems. I will spend the next couple of weeks recreating some of the Apple website controls in SilverLight and Blend.

Here’s a quick picture of all the current controls that I’ve created (click on image to see the demo page in action)

 

[PLEASE NOTE: that all controls are found in the same “source code” zip file. If you download it for one control then you will automatically get all controls source code. I added the “source code” link to each control section to make it easier to access over having one link at the bottom of the page.]

“Apples Top Menu” – (source code) (blog post) (sample)

“Apples Product Slider” – (source code) (blog post) (sample)

“Apples Marquee” – (source code) (blog post) (demo)

“Apples Slideshow” – (source code) (blog post) (demo)

“Apples Accordion” – (source code) (blog post) (demo)

“Apples Video Player” – (source code) (blog post) (demo)

 

“iPod Touch – icon line-up” – (source code)  (blog post) (demo)

“Flickr’s Picture Upload Tool” – (source code)  (blog post) (demo)

 

“Colour the World” – a colour picker done with SilverLight (source code)  (blog post) (demonstration)

“Gold & Sparkly Title + Rotating Marquee” (source code) (blog post) (demonstration)

Please note that these controls are not production ready controls, they are here to give you inspiration to create your own controls. However, saying that, most of these controls need only a little work to get integrated into a real production web site, ultimately in time they will be refactored to form a cleaner control library. Please remember that I too am learning SilverLight and Blend, these controls are a result of that learning process 🙂