Sexy Combo – a jQuery Plugin

February 25th, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - 3 Comments

“Sexy Combo is a jQuery plugin that allows you to turn default browser selectboxes into much more attractive and usable comboboxes. The user can choose whether to select option from the dropdown list or just type it. This widget reaches its maximum efficiency when we have selectboxes with lots of options (e.g. countries or states), so it would be difficult for users to find option in the huge list.”

You can have a look at the demo page and see what Sexy Combo looks like.

Handycons 2 – another free hand drawn icon set

February 24th, 2009 - Design, Icon Sets - 12 Comments

If you are an icon freak like me, then you should already be familiar with handycons from jankoatwrapspeed. Now a new hand drawn icon set is available. Handycons 2 contains 20 more icons for: Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons.

jQuery content slider: Moving Boxes

February 16th, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - 3 Comments

Another excellent jQuery content slider from css-tricks.com. This time with buttons and zoom in – out option. Have a look at the demo. Cool stuff.

Supersized: Full Screen Background/Slideshow

February 11th, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - 2 Comments

Supersized is a jQuery plugin that automatically sizes (background) images to the size of the browser and runs them as a slideshow. It is lightweight and plays nice with all browsers.

You can download supersized and have a look at the demo