A simple example using jQuery and CSS that shows you how to create the fading header technique.
Best jQuery Animation Plugins & Tutorials with Demo
jQuery.folderPreview
jQuery.folderPreview is a jQuery plugin that takes a series of images and positions them so that they appear within a folder graphic. This enhances the attractiveness of a browsing UI system, allowing the user to visualize the contents of the folder. Highly customizable, folderPreview scales back images, “tucks” them in behind a folder graphic using CSS positioning techniques, and rotates them slightly with a separate compatible plugin (jQuery.rotate). It can also select images to process randomly via jQuery.shuffle.
PhotoSmart jQuery Gallery Plugin
PhotoSmart is a jQuery based thumbnail gallery. It allows you to create multiple galleries on a single webpage or on multiple webpages. It has a number of different effects that can be applied or changed very quickly. All galleries are created in code from your gallery folder its then just a matter of adding the gallery element in your webpage. There are a number of load effects, mosaic, zig-zag, faderows and a few more.
jQuery Content/Thumbnail slider : jsCarousel V2.0
jsCarousel v2.0 is a jquery slider plugin that slides contents in multi direction. Now it supports both horizontal and vertical orientation, see the screen shot below. jsCarousel v2.0 slider can be used as a feature content slider as well. You can put any kind of contents you want whether images, text, videos, news etc. it’s up to you. One interesting thing about jsCarousel v2.0 slider is that you can make simple image gallery with thumbnail support by using it. jsCarousel v2.0 slider plugin gives you the source of image via callback function, when you click on some image within slider. See Using jsCarousel v2.0 Slider section below to get an idea about using the callback function.
JQuery slideTo function
Jquery slideTo function. With this function you can slide an element to a given position on your webpage. There are four option to define the position. Special to this function is that you have the ability to slide to the center of the screen and also to the bottom and/or right of the screen.
