Using jQuery The Sexy Way: 7 Great Techniques For a Slick Layout

Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 7 Impressive techniques using some jQuery magic to grab the attention of your users with a simple, rich user experience that gets them excited about your website. 1. Nivo Slider Nivo Slider is a lightweight (7kb compressed) jQuery plugin for creating good-looking image sliders with 9 unique transition effects. Features Include: To use the Nivo Slider you have to include jQuery, the Nivo Slider script and the Nivo Slider CSS on your page. 2. Flip is a jQuery plugin that will flip easily your elements in four directions. Options Include: contentdefine the new content of the flipped box. Using it is very easy: Add content params in this way: Sponsor Flip Wall: Using PHP, CSS and jQuery with the jQuery Flip plug-in, the resulting code can be used to showcase your sponsors, clients or portfolio projects as well. 3. 4. $('#my_image').reel() 5. jPhotoGrid

PhotoSmash Demo » Smashly.net Here’s a live demo of the PhotoSmash WordPress gallery plugin. Upload your images at will! Note that all images will be moderated to a G rating. Only upload images that are not copyrighted, unless you hold the copyright and are granting Smashly the right to display by the act of uploading the image. Enjoy! [Note: this gallery is piloting the unreleased Google Maps V3 integration' What’s this? Read more about Extend here . Duplicate gallery: 1 Here are some of the settings for this gallery: Rating type – set to Standard 5 Star Sort – descending by date/time uploaded (default is ascending) Images per page 30 Thumbnail size: 125 x 125 (resizes and crops) Resize main images to: 800 x 600 (retains proportions) Please do not upload copyrighted images, unless you hold the copyright and are granting Smashly the right to display by the act of uploading the image.

Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics Photographs and graphic images are an integral part of our blogs today. We want to show people what our words often can’t. Besides, pictures are fun to look at. WordPress offers fairly simple image uploading and the automatic creation of thumbnails, but there are a lot more you can do with your images with WordPress Plugins. NOTE: Most of the Plugins listed in this article have now been moved to the WordPress Plugin Directory. There are a lot of WordPress Plugins to help you upload, sort, arrange, enhance, edit, frame, popup, popin, lightbox, photo album, work with online image storage support and services, and manage your images. Unfortunately, not all media-based WordPress Plugins, no matter how impressive and fun, are well supported or well documented. Let’s begin with WordPress Plugins that help you edit your images before publishing. Photo Editing WordPress Plugins Most digital images are created with cameras and scanners which include their own photo editing software packages.