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New Google Calendar landing page scrolling

I'm trying to create a page similar to new google calendar landing page http://www.google.com/landing/calendar/
I'm using skrollr(https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr) but I can't get the effect right, on google landing page if you do a small scroll it will send you to the next block and with skrollr I'm not able to get that navigation. Any ideas how I could reproduce that? is it possible to do with skrollr or you would recommend another js plugin?
Thanks!

In case you still haven't found a solution yourself, I've been tasked with doing a very similar thing. There are two ways of achieving this that I researched and choosing the right one mostly depends on the complexity of your design/expected result. Unfortunately I can't provide a link because the site won't be live for next couple of weeks.
This is what worked for me:
I used fullpage.js library to achieve 'full-page' scroll effect. You could also take a look at onepage-scroll.js and see which one fits you most - they don't differ that much in terms of functionality though.
Benefits of using fullpage.js (among other things):
integration is quick and simple
allows a lot of customisation through options hash
provides callbacks when scroll to another section is triggered (before or after it happens)
enables you to manually trigger a scroll via 'methods'
works surprisingly good on iPad/iPhones. Probably on other mobile devices as well, although I can't fully confirm that since that
wasn't a requirement for my project.
Now when you've got section-to-section scrolling in place, what's missing is the animations. Considering that fullpage.js provides you with callbacks, it's as easy as adding a class when a transition to another section/slide happens and then using that class to trigger an animation of your choice through CSS. This is what worked for me without facing major problems.
For more advanced things:
If you're looking to build something more complex, then I strongly recommend that you take a look at tween.js. This is what google used on the landing page that you've provided in your question.
It's a very powerful tool hence it requires quite some setup + it moves animations to javascript, which might be a hassle. I would rather keep them in CSS where they belong and dont use javascript until I really need to.
FYI I also started with skrollr but it won't really work with 'fullpage scroll' because what it really does is disabling scrolling and animating body/html through translate. Skrollr bases it's behaviour on scroll event which will not fire if you use libraries I proposed.
EDIT:
It appears that you can actually use skrollr in par with fullpage.js. You can see the answer on how in it's FAQ site. Thanks to Alvaro for claryfing that! Even then, I wouldn't use skrollr unless you really need it for some advanced parallax scrolling effect - as said before, depends on your needs though. :)
Let me know if you have any doubts or something is not clear in my answer.
Good luck!

How to create rainmeter style widgets for a website?

This is probably a trivial question, but I feel like it would be useful toward web design. I really like the style of some of the Rainmeter widgets and I wanted to know if there was any way to maybe incorporate them into a website. To be honest, I don't really care for its practical purposes, otherwise I would have gone with the usual widgets you can find on the web which were developed for websites. I am more worried about its aesthetics, and frankly... The widgets I've seen for the web are not the easiest on the eyes (Maybe you know a place where there are some beautiful widgets). Perhaps this is no longer even a widget in a sense, but just an image. An animated image. Surely there is a way though to incorporate the resources you find for Rainmeter onto a website. I tried to answer it myself, and so far only came up with this: create the image on a photo editing program, and then animate it on the website (could be tricky). Perhaps there is a way to edit a widget's style? So my question is really, how would you create/incorporate the widgets you find in the Rainmeter libraries? For example, to recreate what you see on the link below. (With animation).
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/67189
Thanks!

You are probably searching for the wrong keywords. You should be looking for charts and/ or gauges and maybe graphs. The most examples/ libraries will be found including the keyword "javascript" or "css" and now "html5"
This will probably never have a concrete answer, as it seems new browsers introduce new inconsistencies in the way the process or integrate html standards. I've noticed this especially with JavaScript animation. The browsers that support them tend to be more consistent in the way they display CSS transformations. I, personally, haven't delved too much into HTML5 canvas, but that will most likely be the way to go in the near future.
Alternatively, search for dashboard themes.

jQuery instead of Flash animation

I'm trying to find a way to replace the flash animaton on this page http://www.autopulsen.se/ into jQuery. I could cut the images out and rotate them with javascript but it would require major changes in code. Basically I want to keep the same look without flash.
Is this possible?

Yes, you can.
Your starting point would be having a look at this site, there are a lot of zoom plugins on there, which is the main feature of that flash menu. Then you would want to chain the JQuery Shake effect, and maybe look at the fade effect.
To achieve the slanted look you will want to use the skew css selector as featured here.

I'll throw in GreenSock Animation Platform:
www.greensock.com/gsap-js
which may be worth a look, especially if there's the option of paying for a commercial license, as that includes a pretty nifty throwProps plugin.

you can use CSS3 animation but this one i think so good and hard to built in css3
anyway
giving you some animation generator
ceaser
CSS3animationGenrator
Css3Maker
and this one for Inspiration
At DesignShack

Jquery Parallax Scrolling effect - Multi directional

I need to build a multi-directional JQuery parallax page for a client - they basically want it to work in a similar way to this - https://victoriabeckham.landrover.com/INT
I have the artwork ready and have found many jquery libraries that will allow me to scroll horiz/vertical - but i'm not sure how to combine both together at a specific co-ordinate.
Could anyone please point me in a the right direction?
Edit: I did originally sign this post off having looked into Superscrolarama and thinking all was solved - but having struggled with implementing it - I dont think its quite the saviour I thought it was, I need both horizontal and vertical parallax as well as scrolling to achieve above, which it doesn't seem to support - so any other tips I'd be very grateful for!

I threw something together is jsfiddle for you.
http://jsfiddle.net/9R4hZ/40/
The script initializes the start positions of all of the objects first. Then handlers are set up for arrow key and mouse wheel. After that is the meat of the algorithm in the parallaxScroll function.
It uses the ARROWS or MOUSEWHEEL for scrolling.
There are from [left, right, top, bottom] transitions.
The HTML and CSS are really simple.
The JS/jQuery that runs it is self explanatory.
It's an interesting effect, that seems to be geared for artsy type sites.

Did you look into librairies like Scrollrama http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/ or Curtain http://curtain.victorcoulon.fr/?
I know in your question you mention that you already looked into different librairies but depending how they work it's difficult to really suggest how to use proper coordinates.
*edit1
If you didn't see it yet, the auther of scrollorama also did superscrollorama which give a bit more controler over the animation for example animation when an element is pinned.
http://johnpolacek.github.com/superscrollorama/

This article in smashinghub.com shows a collection of JQuery plugin for scrolling and parallax effect I'm totally sure one of them will help you.
it looks like jQuery Scroll Path is the most advanced of them or suit your requirements.

I realize I'm jumping in late here, and this might seem ultra obvious, but have you tried reverse engineering what they have done on https://victoriabeckham.landrover.com/INT? It looks like the ScrollAnimator script does a bulk of the work. I would download their site & mess with it locally, subtracting parts until I figured out which components provide which pieces of functionality. Then I would read through those to understand how they made it happen.

you have use scrollpath plugin
make path

entire page image gallery load/resize technique

i'm curious about an effect i've seen on a lot of different wordpress powered sites. i think it might be a plugin, but i'm not entirely sure.
it's basically a page of images of different sizes, and they fit together based on how wide your window is. they also rearrange very stylishly when you resize your window.
the images also load as you scroll down, in sort of an infitie scroll way.
here is a perfect example of what i'm talking about... http://www.someoddpilot.com/work/projects/
how are they doing that? i would like to achieve a similiar effect, but i'm not sure where to begin. any insight would be super helpful, i'm somewhat new at this. thanks!

There are several techniques... I didn't look to see what they are using specifically, but since you mention jQuery, there is a plugin you should check out: Isotope