EasyTiles is an amazing module to add advanced user experience according to Metro UI style proposed by Microsoft for its new Windows versions
SEE IT IN ACTION
Main features
Animation and Rollover effect for each tile
An animation effect is used to rollover the content defined for each tiles.
As content you can insert a message with a title and a html body, you can define as many messages you want for each tiles.
Completly configurable using a friendly interface based on jQuery.
You can easely configure, columns, tile dimensions, marging, to create your custom grid layout. You can also decide the animation settings, like the speed of rollover and the dealy between tiles.
Each tile is cusomizable
You can manage tile text and layout. for color background you can select a predefined color or you can use custo style classes or Hex code for color.
Content management a tiles association
By a simple and friendly interface using tha well known component jQGrid, you can add or edit messages, and bing one or more message to a tile.
Drag and drop sorting !
In edit mode you can move any tile to the desidered position, simply dragging it with mouse, in this way you will see immediatly the resulting layout.
More to come ...
Easy Tiles will be improved with more feature like rss integration ....
Take a look to this video to find out how to manage properties and layout