Content sliders are very popular because they work and usually don’t hinder usability and in many cases can even improve the user experience. Today we’ll learn how to create a stylish content slider using CSS3 and some jQuery magic.
How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface with jQuery
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a customizable interface with widgets. The finished product will be a sleek and unobtrusively coded iGoogle-like interface, which has plenty of potential applications!
First, let’s list exactly what we’ll be creating here and what features it’ll have:
- This interface will contain several widgets.
- Each widget can be collapsed, removed and edited.
- The widgets can be sorted into the three seperate columns by the user (using a drag and drop technique).
- The user will be able to edit the color and title of each widget.
- Each widget can contain any amount of regular HTML content, text, images, flash etc.
gmap google maps plugin for jquery
gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.There are a two requirements you need to meet before you can use gMap to display Google Maps on your website. First you need to sign up for a Google Maps API key. Second you need the jQuery library at least in version 1.3.
jQuery Fullscreen Gallery with Thumbnail Flip
In this tutorial we will create a fullscreen gallery with jQuery. The idea is to have a thumbnail of the currently shown fullscreen image on the side that flips when navigating through the images. The big image will slide up or down depending where we are navigating to. We will add navigation controls for the mousewheel and for keys. The thumbnail will have a zoom and and a fullscreen option, making the image in the background appear in fullscreen mode or as a complete image, resized to fit in the page.
Compact News Previewer with jQuery
We will create a news previewer that let’s you show your latest articles or news in a compact way. The news previewer will show some list of articles on the left side and the preview of the article with a longer description on the right. Once a news on the left is clicked, the preview will slide in.
Vertical Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial
Just last week, I came accross to this website Narrow Design. His scroll menu caught a lot of my attentions, I played with it for a while. Yes, unfortunately, it’s built in flash. And, Yes, we are going to implement it with jquery – javascript based scroll menu that will do the same thing. Of course, it will not be 100% the same, because some of the fancy features just not that practical to implement with javascript.
How to Make Auto-Advancing Slideshows with jQuery & HTML5
One of the most requested improvements over the tutorials presented on this site, when it comes to slideshows, is the ability to have the slides advance automatically. It is actually not that difficult to achieve this effect, and to demonstrate it, in this short tutorial we are going to make our HTML5 Slideshow auto advance with a few lines of jQuery.
How To Create a Cool Animated Menu with jQuery
In this tutorial we’ll be building a cool navigation list complete with a sliding hover effect. Learn how to build the concept in Photoshop, lay out the basic HTML elements, style everything up in CSS then tie it all together with a few lines of jQuery to create a semantic, accessible and degradable menu design.