10 Fresh jQuery Plugins and Tutorials. The popularity of jQuery continues to grow.
This means that we’re seeing it used on more websites these days, and there are more developers coming up with new ways to use it. The great thing about that is many of these developers are sharing what they learn though tutorials and plugins. We’re always on the look out for this new jQuery stuff. So for this post, I’ve gathered 10 tutorials and plugins that will help you learn and implement some fresh jQuery effects in your projects.
Beautiful Background Image Navigation. 4 New jQuery Plugins. This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of March.
This collection includes patterns, icons, themes, and… Continue Reading → These days many artists are collaborating with big brands in order to reach a mass market. As well as interiors, artists and designers are… Continue Reading → This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of February. Continue Reading → Best jQuery Plugins of 2010. For our “Best of 2010″ series we’ve already shown your our picks for best free WordPress themes and free fonts.
So for this week the focus in on jQuery. This javascript framework continued to grow in popularity during 2010, which meant an abundance of plugins being released. This made it difficult to choose our favorites. We made a conscious effort to choose from a variety of types, and ones that were useful to web designers and that had some wow factor. 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins - Smashing Magazine. Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved.
We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited professionals and high-profile developers to write for us. We’ve been investing more resources in the quality and relevance of our articles. We’ve also explored new formats; and on weekends we’ve been publishing more inspirational pieces, leaving the in-depth articles to weekdays. We’ve tried our best to fuel the growing appetite of our readers for more advanced articles, but recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups. In this post, we present 40 useful but obscure jQuery plug-ins that will hopefully help you improve the user experience on your websites. TipTip jQuery PluginTipTip detects the edges of the browser window and will make sure the tooltip stays within the current window size.
6 Flexible jQuery Plugins To Control Webpage Layouts Easily. Controlling layouts with CSS is a big subject these days as after dropping the table support, it is clear that the current capabilities of CSS is not enough to develop complex & flexible layouts with ease.
There is CSS Template Layout Module which offers exciting features but it is in a draft status. 45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials - Noupe Design Blog. Jan 25 2010 By Paul Andrew As many of us know, the initial 15-20 seconds of a new user’s visit to a web site will have a large impact on whether on not they are going to like or dislike the site, prompting them to decide whether they will stay or go. This means it’s vital that you follow usability rules with common design practices and layout your site, especially the navigation, in a style that the user can either learn easily or already understands. The biggest part of this process is developing a menu that is both easy to use and intuitive, as well as styling it to fit into your site’s design.
Having said all that, an easy-to-use menu should not put the shackles on creativity. 10 Useful jQuery Plugins for Images. We all know and love jQuery for its flexibility and many uses.
But some of the most impressive jQuery applications are those that involve images. It really can allow you to do some useful stuff and even add a “wow” factor to your project. So here we’ve rounded up 10 jQuery plugins to help you display images in your next project. 35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins - Noupe Design Blog. Oct 20 2009 Quick and powerful, jQuery can help designers and developers create awesome interactive websites that are appealing and accessible to the widest range of browsers.
For your audience, the visit to your site will be both exciting and entertaining. Navigation, galleries and slideshows, are hot points for a site to shine. 12 Excellent jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Forms. Forms are part of almost every website.
Whether it’s a simple contact form or a complex sign-up form, filling one out is usually a mundane task. When possible, you should try to make form completion for the user easier and more enjoyable. 10 jQuery Plugins for Easier Google Map Installation. At first glance the Google Map API may seem scary, I mean, were do you possibly start? You probably only want to display a simple map that displays directions to your clients address, you don’t really want an all singing and dancing interactive map with more options than necessary. There has to be a simpler way. Of course there is, and as with almost all web site interactivity, jQuery does offer some simple and easy to use plugins. The plugins below offer not only an easier method to install a map, they also offer the option to add extra functionality, should you choose to need them. They also all come with a varied degree of docs, some are extensive and some non-existent, so choose your plugin wisely. I have also listed a couple of beginner jQuery and Google Map tutorials at the the bottom of the post.
gMap – Google Maps Plugin gMap is a very flexible, highly customizable and lightweight (only 2KB) jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. The Best jQuery Plugins of 2009. During the past few weeks we’ve been publishing our “Best of 2009″ series in which we’ve shown you the best WordPress themes, fonts, icons, and Photoshop Tutorials.
In this article, our focus is on jQuery. Over the past couple of years jQuery has been growing in popularity, which means more and more plugins are being created to make web designers’ lives easier. Here are our favorites from 2009. Content Sliders. 15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts. CSS does a pretty darn good job of helping to lay out a web page… but not always.
Even with all the versatility that CSS offers, it sometimes is not enough and, dare I say it, I really hate to say it – HTML tables are on [very few] occasions missed, as they can fill in the holes that CSS layout techniques may leave behind. Thankfully we do not have to venture down the road of HTML tables, there is a White Knight that can save is, as it always does – there are jQuery plugins and its marvelous community of developers that release an endless river of powerful and always useful plugins. jQuery Masonry Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery.
Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Downloads & Docs »Masonry Demo. 10 jQuery Plugins to Help with Web Page Layouts. Every now and then a web project will come up that has special and unique layout requirements, and the current capabilities of CSS just aren’t enough. With projects such as these, jQuery can be your best friend. So here are 10 jQuery plugins to help you out with page layouts. UI.Layout The UI.Layout plug-in can create any UI look you want – from simple headers or sidebars, to a complex application with toolbars, menus, help-panels, status bars, sub-forms, etc. 50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins. The jQuery community never fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.
Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find a comprehensive selection of the always popular sliders, image galleries, navigation solutions and form validity options. But this round-up has much more. Much, much more. 25 jQuery Plugins for Navigation - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag. 37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins - Noupe Design Blog. Apr 09 2008. 25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins. 45 Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins - Noupe Design Blog. 50 Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1 - Noupe Design Blog.
Dec 20 2007 * This post is regularly updated. . * 37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers.