13th October 2011

New MetroBlox design!!

I have just finished my new MetroBlox jQuery plugin, and I have to say I'm quite pleased with it. I took the design idea from the Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 "Metro" design that Microsoft has been doing, and then I webified it using some jQuery, CSS, and JSON.

The script plugs into Drupal Views, turning either the outputted XHTML or a separate JSON feed into an object that the script can understand and render correctly. The view is infinitely scrollable and automatically cleans up blocks that go off the edge of the screen. It works well in any resolution and can be customised to fit any block size, any number of rows, and any width of padding. I think it's great fun to play with and I'm really happy with it!

If you are interested in knowing more about the MetroBlox plugin, please contact me. If it gets enough interest I may author a proper jQuery plugin for it.