Great example of creative web design from French agency Viens-la

French design agency Viens-la have crafted a wonderfully interactive and vibrant website; this is a great example of how technologies such as jQuery and CSS can be used to introduce new and quirky ways in which to capticate audiences, and bring in new clients. A brilliant showpiece!

Visit the Viens-la website here

Automatic Image Montage with JQuery

Automatic Image Montage using JQuery

Here's a fantastic way of displaying a group of images in a montage style, and the great thing is, it's all done automatically and on-the-fly using JQuery. 

The functionality can be added to fixed size or fluid elements, you can even add it to the body of a website. Visit the site to view demos and get the code: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/08/30/automatic-image-montage/

Useful JQuery Libraries and JQuery Plugins

Spruce up your website with some JQuery, so, here are some excellent JQuery libraries and plugins to choose from. Courtesy of Smashing Magazine.

Click here to visit the Smashing Magazine article.

WP UI - Wordpress Plugin

I stumbled across WP UI today, and it looks like a powerful Wordpress plugin allowing you to add all manner of user-interface enhancements to your Wordpress website (i.e. posts). Powered by JQuery, features include sliders, tabs and accordions, to name a few. Support for CSS3 is also available in the plugin.

Click here to learn more about WP UI on the Wordpress website
Click here to visit the Capabilit website

50 JQuery Plugins

More JQuery components for your delectation:

http://freepsddownload.com/jquery-plugins/50-jquery-plugins/

Flexslider - a jQuery slider plugin

Today, I stumbled across this rather nice jQuery slider (I know, another one!): Flexslider

Check out the advanced options page, as it has a nice looking version there, as shown in the above screengrab...good stuff!

The Slidorion - a combination of image slider and an accordion

We've all seen countless wonderful JQuery image sliders and accordions but rarely do we come across one that does both! Introducing Slidorion - a combination of image slider and an accordion.

The author sums it nicely: A combination of an image slider and an accordion, the Slidorion displays beautiful images along with a variable length description. With slides linked to each tab, and accompanied by a large array of effects, the Slidorion is a great alternative to the traditional jQuery slider.

Slides: a rather nice JQuery slideshow plugin

If you're a fan of JQuery and slideshow components, then take a look at this cool example:

http://slidesjs.com/

JQuery Featured List component

Check out this awesome JQuery "Featured List" component; easy to configure and setup, and looks great too.

http://www.bitrepository.com/stylish-your-featured-items-using-an-interactive-jquery-widget.html?awt_l=DK3Pp&awt_m=JTK4MVez8KYCLV

Source: http://jqueryglobe.com/article/feature-list
Demo: http://jqueryglobe.com/labs/feature_list/

// UPDATE
The links above no longer work, as at October 2011, so I've found another featured list JQuery component.

http://webdeveloperplus.com/jquery/featured-content-slider-using-jquery-ui/

Visual Lightbox jQuery and Prototype image galleries

A rather cool and customisable gallery system using jQuery or Prototype:

http://www.visuallightbox.com/

Modx: loading pages using AJAX and JQuery

Learn how to use jQuery tabs to load Modx Resources via AJAX. This tutorial will show you just how easy it is to accomplish this in MODx Revolution.

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Loading+Pages+in+the+Front-End+via+AJAX+and+jQuery+Tabs

Other links:
Modx CMS

JQuery slider examples

Some very useful JQuery slider examples here:

http://webdesignfan.com/jquery-slider-tutorials-and-plugins/

Plupload

Allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.

http://www.plupload.com/index.php

JQuery carousel slider

A very nice JQuery example of a carousel slider, can also be dynamically driven using PHP and Ajax:

http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/

JQuery Slideshow - Anything Slider!

Here's a really nice JQuery slideshow, includes dynamically generated navigation links, and auto-play functionality. Check it out here:

http://css-tricks.com/examples/AnythingSlider/

Nice tabbed JQuery tabs

This is cool:

http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/jQueryNestedMenus/nested.html

JQuery and PHP | Drag and drop

Check out this useful code; using JQuery to enable drag and drop, but it also uses PHP to store the order state into the database. Look here for more info:

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/dynamic-dragn-drop-with-jquery-and-php/

JQuery Tools : the missing UI library for the web

Here's a great supplement to JQuery, and it's only an additional 5.8Kb! Check out the website, and in particular, the demos page.

Click here to visit the JQuery Tools website

Lightbox alternatives

For anyone that's used the excellent Lightbox image viewer script, here is a link to many alternative versions. Enjoy.

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