Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery

April 22nd, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - 1 Comments

A great tutorial on how to create an image gallery having a really cool hover effect on thumbnails using jQuery. Have a look at the tutorial and the demo.

jQuery Plugin: tabSwitch – tab box couldn’t be any easier

April 21st, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - 1 Comments

tabSwitch is a tab/slider plugin for jQuery. You could make a tab box system with the least of code and still fully customizable. Currently, you could choose from 7 different effects with 2 view styles. You could also hot swap the effects around in runtime.

For more information visit tabSwitch’s official page and view the examples.

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.

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