Introducing: RefinedSlidr (updated 1.2)

Aaron Marquez

Introducing our latest stack, RefinedSlidr!

RefinedSlidr is an image slider that is cross-browser, responsive and full of transitions! It's setup is as simple as drag n' drop! We are excited to bring this to you! To learn more, check out the product page: click here

The first 25 people get 30% off of RefinedSlidr.

If you want to be in that number, well, don't wait too long! The discount code will expire after 25 uses! Just enter the code below when checking out.

FIRST25RS

Also, we have redesigned our website - we'd love to hear your comments and feedback. Along with our new site design we have a new and highly improved support desk and knowledgebase. Check it all out here: stackmaniac.com

Rusty Wood

Hi Aaron

Nice looking Slidr.... but it's not working too well on the iPhone just seems to squish the image.. also it's not aligning center of the screen, am I missing something?

Rusty

Aaron Marquez

Working on it now Rusty, thanks.

Rusty Wood

Cheers Aaron .. it's in the kit ready to use all the same !!

Good to be one of the first 25ers !!

Rusty

Aaron Marquez

Thanks for your support Rusty!

Gille

Aaron. I've just coded this into the new theme of yabdab (took me all day) and you come with this now????

Really needed that stack, good work.

Aaron Marquez

Update released!

bman

Hey Aaron,

Nice stack.
Wondering if maybe the height could be auto-adjusted as well, ie proportional scaling - would be a great feature addition.

P.S. bit confused by your email link on site - didn't really take me anywhere?

Thanks, Bill (the info guy)

kpryce2

Seem to recall you offering your next stack free to those of us who paid FULL PRICE for FancyViewr that you subsequently reduced the price of???????

yuZool

Great stack Aaron and like the stackmaniac redesign - love what you are doing there, great work.

Aaron Marquez

@Gille , Now you can use the stack!
@kypryce2 , Yes, I've sent you the stack. You can relax now.
@yuZool , Thank you for your comments Michael, the feelings are mutual - I too like what you are doing over at yuZool Themes. Btw, I'll get back to you sometime next week - I think I'll go through with it.

Aaron Marquez

Also, a lot of people haven't taken advantage of the code - they've purchased the stack but not using the 30% off code. You can enter FIRST25RS and get 30% off! Only about a dozen uses. No one wants 30% off I guess.

dhidding

I bought using the 30% off code. Many thanks! I'm just beginning to play with it - looks awesome.

A suggestion for a future update would be the ability to warehouse the images.

Cheers,

Dave

Colorwave

Yep. Another vote for a warehouse option for added flexibility. Of course, getting it to scale correctly in iOS is a higher priority.

Aaron Marquez

@dhidding , Do you mean warehousing, in that instead of drag n' drop you use code like <img src="%resource(my-image.jpg)%"> ?
@Colorwave , The scale issue has been fixed - you can update by downloading the stack from the download link you received upon purchase. There was an issue with Sparkle updating but it has been fixed. All future updates will be released automatically via sparkle.

Apologies for the inconvenience!

Colorwave

Nice. That was fast. Thanks.

Aaron Marquez

@Colorwave , I do my best!

Patrick Houlihan

Just got it. Great price with that discount!

I'll add my vote for warehousing.

After seeing the demo, I had hoped there would be some control over the thumbnails' position and size.

As for the position, they're a little too far to the left in your demo and my first attempt. I was able to easily solve that with CSS.

I haven't found an easy way to resize them. I have a 3-slide example and the slider's width is 700px. That's resulting in some rather large thumbnails. It certainly would be nice if we could have control over their size. Thanks!

dhidding

For all of my sites, I FTP the images into a folder on the site's server ( e.g., docs/images/FILES). So, if I could enter a URL or pathway (e.g, ../docs/images/picture.gif), that would be ideal.

The stack is well worth the full asking price - the discount made it even sweeter.

Cheers,

Dave

Aaron Marquez

Thanks Dave,
Working on the warehouse version now. It will be a free copy for existing users and I'll figure out the rest later.

Colorwave

Aaron-

I had a couple of things that I noticed about the stack that I thought I'd run past you. I tried your support link on your site, but as Bill mentioned, your support ticket process is broken right now.

Anyway, could you take a look at the JS easing for the Cube Horizontal transition? The Cube Vertical one is nice and smooth, but the slam on the end of the move for the horizontal one is really harsh and IMO ruins what is otherwise a very nice transition effect. I'd suggest the same amount of easing as the vertical, without the big scale change at the end, if possible.

Also, I'm with Patrick on the thumbnail control. Being able to set the size would be quite useful, and it also seems like some CSS tweaking is needed for them, because no matter the quantity, they always seem to be shifted to the left. If you don't have many images and the images are reasonably wide, the thumbnails are huge.

Lastly, and I hope this doesn't seem like piling on, with too many requests, but think you could do something about the arrow navigation? You don't show it on your site, but when I just tried it it seems a little odd where it is located, off to the left side like that. If the position can't be user defined, I'd think that the bottom center would be a better place for it.

Thanks.

Aaron Marquez

@Colorwave, the support ticket issue was fixed: http://stackmaniac.com/stacks-support/

My bad. I will look into all three of those things, if you want, go ahead and submit a support ticket so I can have it there on a to-do list.

Thanks for your assistance!

Rusty Wood

@Aaron Marquez

Thanks for the updates much better.

Apart from some of the above points .. including the horizontal cube !

I'm still having problems with the alignment being central across portables.

Still, a great addition to the kit thanks.

Rusty

Aaron Marquez

@Rusty Wood,
I am working on these now, thanks.

chammer

RefinedSlidr is a very nice stack (I'm in the first 25 customers).

I've worked on it this sunday, I want to replace NivoSlider pages added with pluskit on stack pages. (Funny, isn't it ?)

I've encountered 2 problems :
- the first is already described above (I can't align on the left side)
- the second is an incompatibility with your stack TexRotatr (1 effect per page, I know... but it's probably easy for you to do the trick).

Thanks for your great job !

Aaron Marquez

Hello @chammer,
I really appreciate your guys' feedback and what not, but please, try to make use of our support desk. It's there for a reason. Not only will I get back to you faster but I can keep easier track of the stuff there.

If you could submit a support request with the incompatibility issue Chammer, I'd love to get right on that.

Aaron Marquez

Here's the support desk link: http://support.stackmaniac.com/

Patrick Houlihan

The following in the CSS panel removed the slider's left margin, which perfectly aligned it over the thumbnails. This is with a 700px wide slider and three thumbnails -- I don't know whether this will work as well with other configurations.

.rs-slider{
margin-left:0px;
}

Aaron Marquez

Thanks Patrick!

The new updates should be released sometime tomorrow.

Aaron Marquez

Making some finishing touches to the update, just need to finalize something.

Expect it soon!

Aaron Marquez

Sorry everyone, the updates will be out over the weekend - ran into some issues. More features will be added though.