25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts. The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going into it too much, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that make your page unique? Navigation, forms, images, sliders, carousels… they all need to be optimised as well. That is were this post comes in, by highlighting 25 jQuery plugins that will help you optimise and resize those trickier web elements. Response.js Response JS is a lightweight plugin that gives you the tools for producing performance-optimized, mobile-first responsive websites.
Response.js Responsly The Responsly plugin is a set of simple responsive widgets written using CSS3 transformations. Responsly Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens Menu to a DropdownDemo Responsive Menu Doubletake. jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know | Nettuts+ jQuery Easing Plugin. Description A jQuery plugin from GSGD to give advanced easing options. Please note, the easing function names changed in version 1.2. Please also note, you shouldn't really be hotlinking the script from this site, if you're after a CDN version you could do worse than try cdnjs.com Download Download the following: Example Click on any of the yellow headers to see the default easing method in action (I've set as easeOutBounce for the demo, just because it's obviously different).
Select easing types for the demo first one for down, second one for up. The Clicker Updates 12/11/07 1.3 jQuery easing now supports a default easing mode. 04/10/07 1.2 Updated to include all methods from Robert Penners easing equations. 28/06/07 1.1.1 Updated the method to not overwrite the newly renamed 'swing', or the new 'linear' style coming in 1.1.3. 22/06/07 Rewritten the above to include callback syntax, nothing else has changed. Advertisements Need reliable hosting for your blog?
Credits Donate Usage Default Custom. Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery | Build Internet! (How to) Ever seen some excellent jQuery navigation that left you wanting to make one of your own? Today we’ll aim to do just that by building a menu and animate it with some smooth effects. The Goal – One Smooth Menu Here’s a demo of what we’ll end up with by the end. Introduction – An explanation of easing The menu has such a smooth animation because of a thing called “easing”. Adobe’s definition in the Flash Developer Center is a little more complete: “The term easing refers to gradual acceleration or deceleration during an animation, which helps your animations appear more realistic.
Thanks to the magic of the jQuery Easing plugin, we can now use easing outside of Flash and Actionscript environments. Step 1 – Set up the Structure Before starting with any jQuery, we’ve got to build a quick menu structure with XHTML and load in the required project files. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Then copy in this menu structure into the body: Step 3 – Style with CSS Step 4 – Animate with jQuery Google+ 8 Sites with Excellent jQuery Navigation | Build Internet! This is a gallery of sites that use jQuery to make the navigation clean, sharp, and elegant. These sites use the framework to do more than just add gratuitous effects.
Even though I’m a huge fan of Actionscript, Flex, and Flash in general, I love when navigations can keep usability while achieving fluid animation. A couple of these are so fluid you may forget it’s not Flash. 1. Carrot Creative 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. This one is actually mooTools, and snuck into the wrong post. This list was the quick result of bookmarks I’ve had for sometime. Google+