Javascript

30+ Great jQuery Calendar and Date Pickers Plugins

by Dustin Betonio on April 15, 2012

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With jQuery Calendar and Date Pickers it is quite simple to add cool calendar features to nearly any website. jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. Used by over 41% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. I believe that jQuery is the best JavaScript library because it’s easy to use, flexible and has a lot of tutorials and plugins allowing you to integrate nearly any front end function into your site. Implementing a calendar in the web application is also made easy when using jQuery event calender and date picker plugins. Event calendars and date pickers are really useful for web applications and is a good way to communicate any kind of event relevant to the site or business publishing it. jQuery is also useful in many other areas and in particular jQuery carousel plugins can give a website a facelift. For this article I have found 30 useful jquery Calendar and jquery datepicker plugins web designers, freelancers and bloggers should be aware of. Another very popular type of jQuery scripts are jQuery Slider Plugins.

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25+ jQuery Drag and Drop Plugins

by Lars on April 3, 2012

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With jQuery Drag and Drop is not as hard as it used to be. Like most others with a great interest in web front end development jQuery have a special place in my heart. jQuery manages to brings the real goodies to us with only a few lines of code and every day it gets better. This is because the huge jQuery community keeps shipping awesome plugins; great thanks to everyone contributing!. With jQuery it is possible to create user friendly and sophisticated web user interfaces in a lightweight and elegant way. One of the most important aspects of creating good user interfaces is taking care of the user events; like fx. user dragging stuff around on the page. Typically in web development this has not been trivial at all but with jQuery the dark clouds are gone. This post give you 27 jQuery Plugins that will give you the poser to add Drag N’ Drop capabilities to you web front ends. Keep in mind that some are in development or not fully maintained by the authors. Be careful what you use in client project as you need to be able to support the solution.

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85+ Cool jQuery Effects Roundup

March 25, 2012

jQuery effects are used more or less all over the Internet today. Just a few years ago Flash was dominating the scene for interactive and dynamic websites. The arrival of JavaScript libraries like jQuery have made it a lot easier to do advanced stuff with JavaScript, but of course the fact that Apple didn’t let [...]

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20 Cool jQuery Text Effects

March 25, 2012

With jQuery text effects you can do really cool and dynamic stuff on your web pages. However keep in mind that text effects in web design is far away from the popularity we saw in the early days of the Internet and in some cases can be best used as funny JavaScript effects. Back then [...]

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85 Awesome jQuery Slider Plugins

March 22, 2012

A jQuery slider or jQuery carousel can be very useful to feature important content on nearly any web site. The jQuery library has undoubtedly made the life of JavaScript programmers easier and made it possible for non-experts to do fancy stuff themselves. With jQuery, we can do a lot of really advanced and dynamic things [...]

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35+ Useful jQuery Menu Plugins

March 19, 2012

With a jQuery menu plugin your site visitors may have the best and most dynamic navigation available. jQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser compliant, incredibly awesome and extremely powerful JavaScript framework (library) that emphasizes and simplifies interaction between JavaScript, CSS and HTML. With jQuery, you can change the look and feel of your website into something [...]

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30 jQuery Image Slider Plugins and Tutorials

February 21, 2012

jQuery image slider plugins are very popular these days and found on many many websites. There are several interesting use cases for image sliders, however I think it is most common to use them on the front page to showcase featured articles or products. I’m a great fan of jQuery because it is easy to [...]

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30 Cool jQuery Tooltip Plugins for Interactive Designs

January 31, 2012

jQuery tooltip is certainly one of the building blocks you should consider using in your web design and development. jQuery tooltips are easy to install and set up and they help you offer extra information on important elements and at the same time make the browsing experience of every visitor interesting and dynamic. Simple and [...]

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50+ Best jQuery Carousel Roundup

January 28, 2012

In web design a carousel is an element giving visitors easy access to several content items. It is typically a dynamic scrolling list of items in horizontal order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation). Using sliding horizontal [...]

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20 Cool jQuery Countdown Scripts

January 21, 2012

I’m sure you have notices the countdown features on sites like RapidShare that allow you to download files but make you wait a specified number of seconds before giving you the download link. You have probably also seen sites that are not online yet using a countdown to tell visitors when to come back in [...]

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