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There are plenty of plugins for jQuery addressing nearly any front end need you can think of. The apparent abundance of plugins available on the other hand does not stop creative and skilled developers from creating even more goodies for the jQuery community, Thanks You all for contributing! In this post I have hand-picked a set of very interesting and brand new plugins that have been released within the last few weeks. Take a look I’m sure you will find something useful!

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Forms are essential for communication online and they are the single most important interface to collect information from users. Why not spice you forms up a bit and make your site more appealing and user friendly? This post will help you get an idea of what what is possible to acheive with a few lines of simple jQuery code…

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Spending hundreds of dollars on a text editor or IDE may give you a great tool with loads of nice features, regular updates, great documentation etc…. It’s an option but actually there are very useful and completely free alternatives. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of more than 25 free Editors and IDEs useful for most developers on a tough budget. Please drop a comment if a great tool was missed in the post.

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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 15 jQuery Plugins that will give you the poser to add Drag N’ Drop capabilities to you web front ends.

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jQuery is a great framework for creating interactive and dynamic user interfaces. The availability of plugins targeting nearly any area of web front end development is amazing and really speeds up developers work. This post focus on plugins that provide tool tip functionality and as you will see in a minute there are plenty of good looking and flexible options.

A tooltip is a small box that appears near an object in a graphical user interface (GUI) when a pointer or other cursor controlled by a mouse passes over or rests on that object and which contains a brief text message identifying or explaining the object. This a very useful technique for making your web pages (or really any type of GUI) more intuitive and easier to use, particularly where the purpose of some GUI objects may not be immediately apparent. If used right tool tips can significantly improve usability and reduce the frustration of inexperienced users fx. when providing to them a complex form.

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jQuery makes it easier and simpler to provide your users with high quality, dynamic, good looking and intuitive input forms. This post lists some of the best available in different categories; “Form Element Visual Enhancements”, “Form Element Data Validation and Manipulation”, “Form Tool tips”, “Calendars and date pickers”, “jQuery hot key plugins” etc. Drop a comment if you know a good plugin that should be added to the list! Please remember to support tripwire magazine and share the article if you like it!

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2009 was the year I started tripwire magazine. It has been fun, hard work and I have learned a lot. During the year tripwire magazine have had more than 2 million page views and received great feedback and support from readers and sponsors (please check them out in the right sidebar). Thanks to everyone for visiting, commenting and contributing and for making tripwire magaszine a great place for web designers and developers.

In this last post in 2009 you will find a collection of excellent jQuery plugins that will help you out in in you web projects far into 2010.

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This article will introduce you to more than 45 jQuery plugins providing enhancements to how you can display images on your web pages. This is essential for creating dynamic state of the art web solutions and jQuery makes it simple and elegant. If you know other great jQuery plugins or would just like to share another great way of working with images in web development, them please drop a comment.

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Most people have turned their back to tables for implementing web page layouts. This is because tables compared to table-less layout beased on CSS Positioning has several disadvantages. But tables are not useless at all! They should just be used to render tabular data as they originally was designed for. By adding a bit of jQuery you will be able to create very useful solutions with html tables that your users will find easy and intuitive to use.

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It’s amazing how many great free tools one can find on-line. If you’re a freelancer with a limited budget some of the free on-line tools listed below may be just what you’re looking for. Please share with us in a comment if you know on-line tools that belongs to the category “brilliant anyone should know about!”.

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