AJAX Search

The built-in search engine utilises AJAX and MySQL's powerful FULLTEXT feature to rapidly return, in real-time, any pages that match your search query.

When you click on a returned result, the visited page will highlight the search terms until one of them is clicked on. Try searching for 'ajax' and clicking on a returned result.

Search results appear here in real-time.
Single Click Slideshow
  • Example Image 1
  • Example Image 2
  • Example Image 3
  • Example Image 4
  • Example Image 5

This simple slideshow was generated with a single click within the sidebar editor. Images can be linked to any page, file or website.

MP3 Jukebox

Presenting Multimedia

You might not always want to show multiple objects using the Media Gallery plugin. By using the 'MP3 Player' or 'FLV Player' buttons on the WYSIWYG editing toolbar, you can generate the necessary code and embed media files in your page content with a single click.

Images

Images can be presented in a variety of ways:

  • Uploading and embedding via the AJAX File Manager
  • By copying and pasting direct from another website
  • By editing the source code and manually crafting the HTML
  • By using the Media Gallery
  • A combination of the above, with additional built-in jQuery lightbox functionality

Audio

Using the MP3 Player button on the WYSIWYG you can insert a Flash-based MP3 player with the minimum of fuss.

You can also use a URL to a remote MP3 file as long as begins with http://. The Title and Artist fields are automatically extracted from something called ID3 tags - a range of useful data that is embedded within MP3 and other modern media files.

Video

The video player works in a similar manner to the MP3 player above. It support FLV files (as used by YouTube etc.).

Video Shortcut Keys (only when NOT in full screen mode)

  • Spacebar - Stop and Start
  • Up Arrow - Volume Up
  • Down Arrow - Volume Down
  • Left Arrow - Scrub Rewind
  • Right Arrow - Scrub Forward
  • Enter - switch to full screen
  • Escape - Exit full screen
  • Double-click - Enter/Exit full screen
  • Mouse Wheel - Volume up and Down (only in full screen mode)

Flash

Vanilla can use the SWFObject method to embed Flash movies within its pages. We've always found it to be a reliable cross-browser solution with a simple-to-use syntax and good support for variables.

An alternative method is to use the 'Insert/Edit Flash' button on the WYSIWYG editor's toolbar. However, this method, which uses object tags, is not W3C valid and may not always yield the desired results in Internet Explorer.