Free page peel script
Oct 31, 2007 in Cool scripts
I first noticed the page peel script about a month ago. Like many people I have a near phobia of clicking on shiny objects on web-sites I’m not familiar with. But this caught my attention. The top right hand corner of the web-page was shimmering and the corner seemed to be peeled away. The text in the corner said: “Click here”. And I did. I was fascinated. If you hover your mouse over the corner the page will ‘peel away’ to reveal whatever is beneath. It is a very eye-catching and still relatively new way to advertise on your site.
As soon as I saw it, I wanted it for my own blog. I did my usual thing and went looking for a free version of the script. This turned out to be a harder thing to do than I thought. What I found was people trying to sell the script from prices as high as $80 to as low as $5. The closest I could come to free was sites who were running promotions where they would give you the script if you signed up for something else.
I was sorely tempted to pay the $5 to get it but ultimately I just forgot about it – until today. While stumbling around I came across the script for free! I downloaded it and got it running and it works.
Once you download and extract the .rar file all you have to do is:
1. Edit the peel.js script to point it to whatever url you want people to go to when they click on the corner.
2. You then create two images, one is the small 75×75 pixel image that you see when the corner is unpeeled and the other is the 500×500 one that you see when you move the mouse over it.
3. Upload the whole folder onto your web-site.
4. Insert one line of code into the header information of the page you want the peel to appear on.
That’s it! And it’s free!
Download free page peel.
