Monday, December 26, 2011

7 jQuery Plugins For A More Eye-Catching Website


7 jQuery Plugins For A More Eye-Catching Website
by: Keith

Here are 7 cool jQuery tutorials plugins for event management, animation and Ajax interactions that will surely turn your website into eye-candy. Enjoy trying out their demo!

1.       Ninja UI – This plugin is one big pack of web interface:  it has buttons, icons, tooltips, sliders, and more!  As everyone keeps saying about Ninja UI, its design is beautiful, efficient and unobtrusive. 


2.       Mobiscroll – Here’s a jQuery plugin that’s optimized for touchscreen devices. Perfect as a date picker, it can also be used for any other values (including images!). It is also a great alternative for dropdown list.



3.       Elycharts - A pure Javascript charting library, it is easy to use and completely customizable. It helps you create good-looking interactive charts with a lot of useful features such as legend and label support, mouse tracking, tooltips, and animations. It doesn’t require any client side plugins like Flash or Java. It runs on the client browsers so you don’t need to install anything on your server.



4.       Timelinr - This plugin helps give more life to boring timelines. It supports horizontal and vertical layouts, and you can specify parameters for most attributes like speed, transparency, etc.



5.       jQuery.fracs – This is an impressive jQuery plugin that helps determine the visible fractions of an element that is currently in the viewport. It lets users jump to different sections of a website easier so it's suitable for one-page websites.



6.       Blueberry -  This is a simple and fluid jQuery image slider plugin which was written specifically to work with responsive web layouts. Try out the demo to see and appreciate how well it lets the page adapt to the current window size.


7.       PikaChoose – this is a very lightweight jQuery slideshow plugin with lots of features. It integrates smoothly with jCarousel and has API hooks for lightbox and Fancybox integration too.


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