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the Best jQuery Plugins | Menus, Galleries and more
Brandon Davenport
If you don't know what jQuery is, it is a very powerful and popular JavaScript library that allows developers to build complex web apps, without relying on making their own core structure. There are thousands of jQuery plugins, ranging from stuff like menus, image galleries and sliders -- also there is more in-depth functions jQuery can accomplish like passowrd-strength fields, interactive capchas, and in-browser uploading utilities. Here is our top jQuery plugins.
Mini Tabbed Menu
Tabbed Interface or Tabbed Structure Menu is getting really famous in web design & development. This tutorial will show you how to build your own tabbed Interface using jQuery with slideDown/slideUp effect. Be sure to check out the demo, you definitely will like it.
Pro Sliding Menu
This tutorial explains and let you download sliding jquery menu and you can see the effect in action over on the PSDtuts webpage in the top right hand corner.
CSS Apple Dock Menu
If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu that I designed. It is using Jquery Javascript library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock styles – top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfect to add on to my iTheme.
Lava Lamp Menu
Hover above and feel for yourself, the nifty effect of Lava Lamp. What you just experienced is nothing but the LavaLamp menu packaged as a plugin for the amazing jQuery javascript library. I personally believe that the effect rivals that of flash – Don’t you? Especially considering the fact that it is extremely light weight.
Password Strength
Password Strength tries to calculate how many possibilities the hacker needs to try to guess your password.
Ajax Fancy Capcha
Ajax Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers. It introduces a new, intuitive way of completing “verify humanity” tasks.
Uploadify
Uploadify allows the easy integration of a multiple (or single) file uploads on your website. This could allow you to take one more step towards making your own version of Youtube!
Supersized
Supersized cycles images with transitions and preloading. It automatically resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio.
Galleria
Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.
Sliding Boxes and Captions
All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through. Nice effect.
GalleryView
GalleryView is a content-gallery plugin capable of displaying any HTML content in an animated gallery view. This plugin is bounding with options and you would be hard pressed to not use this plugin. GalleryView does require the jQuery Timers plugin to facilitate timing of animation events.
Anything Slider
AnythingSlider is created by Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks and is a fully featured slider that is widely useful. You should also be able to tweak it to be a video gallery, since it takes HTML code as a slide.
Coda Slider 2.0
Coda-Slider 2.0 is aimed to mimic the slider effect on the promo page for Panic’s Coda software. The original version was hacked together in 2007, but this 2.0 version is built from the ground up.
