I am probably the ten billionth person who says this, but jQuery this just GREAT! By spending a few extra minutes you can add so much interaction to your website. It is so easy to understand and use, you do not even need to be able to create your own. So many plugins out there that can make life so much easier. Here are five plugins that are not only nice, but also easy to implement:
Fancybox
FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.
Jqtransform
This plugin is a jQuery styling plugin wich allows you to skin form elements.
Supersized
Supersized resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio, cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading.
Scrollable
The purpose of this library is to make it extremely easy to add scrolling functionality to a website. Whenever you wish to scroll HTML elements in a visually-appealing manner, this is the only library you need. The main design goals of this library are to provide visual customization functionality and programmability.
TipTip
TipTip is a very lightweight and intelligent custom tooltip jQuery plugin. It uses ZERO images and is completely customizable via CSS. It’s also only 3.5kb minified!
Kudos for the programmers who developed these great plugins!
The Jqtransform is great, my site uses a lot of form elements and this is an easy way to enhance the overall appearance of the site!
http://mattnull.com/formation
Great collection. Thanks
Hm, ColorBox got some votes here. I think in a few weeks I am going to post a separate list based from your suggestions 🙂
you might wanna check out jquery cycle or jcarousel to the list. i don’t know about you, but those two are some of my most used plugins. i can also vote for colorbox for modal windows.
Very nice collection!
Great article, I didn’t know about TipTip either.
PS, the word “particular” is misspelled in your sidebar.
Thanks Dan, sorry for my bad spelling. It has been corrected.
Nice list. I’ve never even heard of Scrollable or TipTip, I’ll take a closer look at those.
I’d also recommend the jQuery Cycle plugin for nice transition effects and ColorBox as an alternative to Fancybox.
You are right, jQuery Cycle is one of my faves too. I just took the most recent ones that I just used or played around with. I will take a look at ColorBox, thanks for the suggestion.