35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
Quick and powerful, jQuery can help designers and developers create awesome interactive websites that are appealing and accessible to the widest range of browsers. For your audience, the visit to your site will be both exciting and entertaining. Navigation, galleries and slideshows, are hot points for a site to shine.
Here are 35 useful fresh jQuery plugins focusing on navigation, gallery and slideshows, calendars, tab browsing and further resources to reduce time and effort while increasing your audience.
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jQuery lightbox for images, videos, YouTube, iframes - by Stephane Caron
prettyPhoto jQuery supports more than images. It also adds support for videos, flash, YouTube, and iFrames. It's a full blown media lightbox that comes with useful APIs so prettyPhoto can be launched from nearly anywhere, including a flash USB.
Spacegallery - jQuery plugin
Spacegallery is a Javascript image gallery with a jQuery plugin. After setting parameters, images are animated with perspective style. When you click the front image, it fades in a smooth animation and is replaced with the next image. Although designed with one way navigation, it is a cool gallery when only a limited number of images need showcased.
jquery-rotate - Google Code
This library is an extension for jQuery to rotate images directly within JavaScript. It works especially well when you need to organize your thumbnails without the lag of synchronous image operations via the web server.
Galleriffic | A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries
Galleriffic is a high performance plugin for delivering a high volume of photos. Features include smart image preloading after the page is loaded, thumbnail navigation with pagination, support for bookmark-friendly URLs per-image, slideshow with optional auto-updating URL bookmarks, events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects, support for image captions, flexible configuration, graceful degradation when JavaScript is not available, and support for multiple galleries per page.
JQuery Cycle Plugin
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.
jQuery Infinite Carousel
jQuery Infinite Carousel is a scrolling carousel that works in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk you through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it.
Fancybox
FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page. It was built using the jQuery library.
jQuery Flash Plugin
This jQuery plugin is for embedding Flash movies. Pages are progressively enhanced when Flash and JavaScript are available, and fallback to plain (X)HTML when they're not. Replacements can happen as soon as the DOM is ready. (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript stay separate, making it easy to remove, update or swap out later. Inspired by tools like SWFObject, UFO and sIFR, but written line-by-line for jQuery, no other scripts are required, meaning less redundancy, smaller filesize and faster loading.
Jquery Plugin MopBox 2.2
MopBox is draggable show box that can contain div, image , flashmovie, video, etc. If it has more than one child, the slider navigation is shown automatically and can be resizaable for one page of content.
JQuery Media Plugin
The jQuery Media Plugin supports unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content. It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF and more, into a web page. The plugin converts an element (usually an "<a>") into a <div> which holds the object.
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Navigation jQuery Plugins
Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock jQuery adds a whole lot of cool functionality to your websites. It can do a range of things, from animation to AJAX. This jQuery using jqDock can help you create a completely coded Dashboard like Leopard. It's handy in hiding a whole lot of gadgets or widgets for which you don't have space. jQuery Keyboard Navigation Plugin The jQuery Keyboard Navigation Plugin provides the capability for elements on a page to be navigated and activated via the keyboard's up, down, right and left arrow keys. jQuery Plugins This plugin is for Ajax-driven pages to have back/forward navigation and to allow bookmarking. jQuery (mb)Menu 2.6 (New!) This is a powerful jQuery component to build a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu with a right click in an intuitive yet easy way Advanced keypress navigation with jQuery Based off "A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion," but new and improved with keypress accessibility, this handy keypress navigation in included with this useful jQuery resource.Gallery and Slideshows jQuery Plugins
jQuery.popeye 1.0 released This is major release, completely rewritten and overhauled, of jQuery.popeye. It is an image gallery plugin that started as an alternative to the famous JavaScript lightbox. Supersized - Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin (Demo) The Supersized jQuery plugin can resizes images to fill the browser while maintaining image dimension ratio. Additionally, it can cycle images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading. The navigation controls allow for pause/play and forward/back. Easy Slider 1.5 - The Easiest jQuery Plugin For Sliding Images and Content This Easy Slider 1.5 jQuery plugin offers many features such as auto slide, continuous sliding, "go to first" and "go to last" button, hiding controls, optional wrapping markup for control buttons, vertical sliding, multiple sliders on one page, and more.

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