In November 2009, 5 jQuery plugins were born and most of people believed that they are useful for web designers. Enjoy the 5 fresh jQuery plugins!

This is a simple plugin for adding sliding captions to images. The image gets tinted too, when hovering.

This is a really cool jQuery selector tester that let's you try selectors and automatically highlights them in the html. Lots of fun to play with and helps with the understanding of how jQuery selectors work! A must try!

TopUp is a JavaScript component powered by jQuery and jQuery UI that lets you create advance lightbox for your web pages. It provides you the ability to display images, flash (from sites like Youtube, SWF and FLV files), movies (QuickTime, Windows Media and Realplayer), iframes, DOM elements and raw HTML.

To complement the new jQuery lesson series I thought I’d just write an article on what exactly jQuery is, and how it can really help your website without you needing to know too much about Javascript coding or anything like that

This post describes how to implement a location search (geocoding) mechanism using dhtmlxCombo and Google Maps API.

Chris Coyier authored a post titled Better Pull Quotes: Don’t Repeat Markup a while back. In his post he created great-looking pull quotes without repeating any content — instead he uses jQuery to dynamically create the pull quotes. The following is the MooTools method for doing so.

let’s look at some clever techniques developed and used by top professionals in the Web design industry. We can use their examples to develop our own alternative solutions.

In my previous post I talked about the impact of jQuery Selectors on a page that I analyzed. The page took 4.8 seconds in the onLoad event handler. 2 seconds were mainly caused by the selectors as described in the blog. The other 2.8 seconds were caused by a dynamic JavaScript menu – in that particular case it was the superfish jQuery plugin. A closer analysis showed why it takes so long and this also got me to do some research on these menus. Kudos to Joel Birch for his excellent plugin – easy to integrate – and – if properly used – its fast enough

Javascript functions can be passed as few or as many parameters as you like - the exact number of parameters specified in the function declaration is not exactly what must be passed in. This post shows how to work out if a particular parameter has not been passed and therefore how to set a default value for it.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to build tooltips that are powered by jQuery, with information pulled from a JSON array. Here’s a look at the final result that we’ll be looking to me:

Tutorial for learning how to apply overlays to be used with JavaScript for a fancy image viewing effect

Displays images continuously in a slideshow presentation format, with a fade effect on image transitions

We need to know how to use properties and methods of Navigator object in JavaScript to make powerful applications. Navigator object gives us to get browser information of client. There is a list of all properties and methods in Javascript.

In this article, we will create an image slideshow including a lot of effects. We will use HTML and JavaScript.

If you are a server-side Java developer such as myself, I am sure you want an easy way to create AJAX based application but pure JavaScript (ECMAScript) is not your strong skills. The beauty of JavaScript is that it runs on any web server, no need for a servlet container or anything of that sort.

Notimoo is a lightweight MooTools plugin (4kb) for displaying growl-like notifications. It comes with several options for a better customization of “how the plugin functions”. Some of the options are: if it should disappear automatically or not time it will be displayed for position of the notification display a title or not opactiy of the modal window. It is also possible to update the look & feel of the notifications via CSS.

jMP3 (javaScript MP3 player) is an easy way make any MP3 playable directly on most any web site (to those with Flash & javaScript enabled), using the sleek Flash Single MP3 Player & the fantabulous jQuery.

An introduction to using Ajax with JQuery and ASP.NET MVC. Basic examples of the JQuery and server-side code.

Examples introducing some of the more advanced Ajax features available with ASP.NET MVC. Retrieving and submitting forms are covered using both JQuery and the built-in MVC Ajax libraries.