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6 New jQuery Techniques to Spice Up Your Design Content

Noura Yehia — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:45:23 +0000

Designers are constantly striving to create eye-catching and interactive layouts without losing the usability features that add significant importance to the user’s experience.

Since there are various forms of techniques being used nowadays, it can be quite confusing when choosing the perfect one. Content can either help to enhance the design, or serve as a focal point.

The main challenge here is to do something simple because we’re dealing with interactive content so everything will change pretty often.

Having said that, let us examine 10 jQuery techniques that proved to offer a rich browsing experience.

As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.

1. JQUERY TRANSIT

Super-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery

A very useful jQuery plugin that works the same way as the animate() method, but powered by CSS3 transitions. You get the benefit of smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions on any device. Transformation include: translate, rotate, perspective, scale, skew and so on.

How to Use it?

Just Use $('...').transition instead of jQuery’s $('...').animate.

Then choose one of the many transition effects available there: x(px) y(px) translate(x, y) rotate(deg) rotateX(deg) rotateY(deg) rotate3d(x, y, z, deg) scale(x, [y]) perspective(px) skewX(deg) skewY(deg)

2. The Wookmark jQuery plugin

lays out a series of elements in a dynamic column grid

The Woomark jQuery Plugin automatically arrange and creates a dynamic box grid layout that responds to your browser size. It is great for showcasing large amounts of content in a minimalistic and stylish way.

How to Use it?

It is very simple to setup:

1- Include the file in your website (after your include of jQuery)

2- Run it on your content and adjust the options (container, offset, itemWidth)

$('#myContent li').wookmark({offset: 2});

3. Filtrify

Beautiful advanced tag filtering with HTML5 and jQuery

Filtrify is an advanced tag filtering plugin, inspired by Chosen multiple select feature and Orman Clark’s Vertical Navigation Menu.

Advanced because you can search tags within tags and filter items by multiple tags from different categories and get a live feedback on the number of items containing related tags.

How to Use it?

1- Add jQuery, filtrify.js and filtrify.css to the section of your page.

2- Now,if you have a list of singers/bands and each one of them have a list of “genre” tags. Your HTML would have to look like this:




     The Beatles 


     The Rolling Stones 


     Björk 


     Foo Fighters 


     Bruce Springsteen 


    ...

4. Scrollorama

The jQuery plugin for doing cool scrolly stuff

Allows you to create transitions out of any numeric CSS property, Scrollorama is one of the quickest ways to develop your own scrolling website, without getting your hands too dirty with JavaScript.

By dividing the content into blocks, it simply lets us to animate elements on the page (when a block is reached) based on the browser window’s scroll position.

How to Use it?

Embed scrollorama.js after jQuery and initialize the plugin, passing the blocks class selector as a parameter.

$(document).ready(function() { var scrollorama = $.scrollorama({ blocks:'.scrollblock' }); });

The animations are accomplished using CSS properties, durations of them can be defined and it is also possible to set the exact scrolling positions of the start/stop events.

5. Magnifying glass for image zoom

Create a realistic magnifying glass using Jquery and CSS3

The code uses CSS3 box-shadow and border-radius properties to create the magnifying glass. Jquery is used to position it at the cursor coordinates and change the background position accordingly.

Moving the cursor away from the image gently fades out the magnifying glass bringing the image back to the default state.

6. Backbone.Notifier

Displaying and controlling UI notifications

Backbone Notifier is a powerful and flexible framework for displaying and controlling dialog notifications built on top of jQuery, Backbone.js and Underscore.js.

It currently has large number of options to customise the timing, style, size & position with even more features being added in the future. Includes styles that are fully customizable and don’t require extra CSS and can be extended thanks to smart modules architecture.

jQuery Waypoints: Scroll-Based jQuery Functions

Noura Yehia — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:00:59 +0000

Creating custom functions with jQuery based on the scroll position of the page just got a whole lot easier. Today i stumbled through an interesting jQuery plugin that i am sure many of you guys will find useful. Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.

     $('.entry').waypoint(function() {
          alert('You have scrolled to an entry.');
     });

Waypoints makes a solid base for modern UI patterns that depend on a user’s scroll position on the page.

Waypoints is dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses. You can fork the project or report any issues in the GitHub repository.

Using Illustrations in WebDesign: 30 Creative Examples

Noura Yehia — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:51:36 +0000

Using illustration in web design makes it stand out from the crowd by giving the design its own character. Illustrations manage to be unique when designed carefully around your design elements.

Below you’ll find 30 beautiful web designs that feature creative illustrations, integrated properly to create a visually pleasing effect.

TheLastMarch

Veerle

Heyindy

TeaRoundApp

Pieoneers

AModernEden

MyBrainArt

TheDigitalInvaders

FullyIllustrated

MedioCore

PixelBaecker

FreeGobbler

Chopin2010

TheManyFacesof

TwentyFeet

Bitbots

Forrst

MyOnlineReading

This is Nation

ChernobylHeart

Siringa

Pampaneo

Joby

Instantad Legend

TeamFannyPack

HelloBard

PigeonandPigeonette

Kreestal

MattSalik

Ndesign-Studio

Dark and Mysterious High Quality Desktop Wallpapers

Noura Yehia — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:05:31 +0000

The more beautiful and elegant Desktop wallpapers are, the better they can challenge our imagination and affect our daily mood.

In this collection, you’ll find extremely beautiful and high-quality Dark and Mysterious wallpapers that you may also like for your collection. With so many brilliant desktop wallpapers to choose from, your desktop will never be dull or boring again. Enjoy!

Important: Licenses of every wallpaper varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.

10+ Most Beautiful Island Photography on Earth

Noura Yehia — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:10:45 +0000

Today, we want to have a little break and have a deep breath while looking at these magnificent and beautiful island photography from around the world.

DevSnippets » Article

6 New jQuery Techniques to Spice Up Your Design Content

1. JQUERY TRANSIT

How to Use it?

2. The Wookmark jQuery plugin

How to Use it?

3. Filtrify

How to Use it?

4. Scrollorama

How to Use it?

5. Magnifying glass for image zoom

6. Backbone.Notifier

jQuery Waypoints: Scroll-Based jQuery Functions

Using Illustrations in WebDesign: 30 Creative Examples

TheLastMarch

Veerle

Heyindy

TeaRoundApp

Pieoneers

AModernEden

MyBrainArt

TheDigitalInvaders

FullyIllustrated

MedioCore

PixelBaecker

FreeGobbler

Chopin2010

TheManyFacesof

TwentyFeet

Bitbots

Forrst

MyOnlineReading

This is Nation

ChernobylHeart

Siringa

Pampaneo

Joby

Instantad Legend

TeamFannyPack

HelloBard

PigeonandPigeonette

Kreestal

MattSalik

Ndesign-Studio

Dark and Mysterious High Quality Desktop Wallpapers

Dragon

Tree and Moon

Dawn

First Sunshine

Indigo Soul

To Pierce an Evil Heart

History Foreseen

Birth

A Flying Tree

alone in the_dark

Darkness Rising

Other Worlds

Oasis

Blue Moon

Wake up

Cosmosition

Towers remake

Ghost Ship

Dark Aurora

Welcome to Milltown

10+ Most Beautiful Island Photography on Earth

Island in Lhaviyani Atoll

Bora-Bora Island

Bora-Bora Island

Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Blue Hole

Fiji Islands

PALAU Island

Tahiti Island

Midway Atoll, Hawaii

MiniIsland, Honolulu, Hawaii

Faroe Islands

Needle Island

Island Houses

Koh Pannyi, Phand Nga bay, Thailand