B&W Box Gallery
By Mary Lou on
In today’s experiment, we created a little gallery that plays with the black and white versions of images. The idea is to have an initial grid-like view of the ...
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In this category you will find experiments, plugins and articles related to web development and programming. Here we present some new ideas and inspiration for solving problems and tackling challenges around web development.
Website Tour with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Today we want to share a little script with you that allows to create a tour on a website with jQuery. This can be very useful if you want to explain your users the ...
Merging Image Boxes with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Today we will show you a nice effect for images with jQuery. The idea is to have a set of rotated thumbnails that, once clicked, animate to form the selected image. ...
Music Portfolio Template with HTML5 and jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Today we want to share a music portfolio template with you. The idea is to create an artist portfolio with a discography line up and HTML5 audio player jPlayer. The ...
Latest Tweets Tooltip with jQuery
By cody on
If you have a news website, it might be interesting for you to allow your users to see the latests tweets about a topic. Here is a jQuery plugin for showing the late ...
UI Elements: Search Box with Filter and Large Drop Down Menu
By Mary Lou on
Today we will show you some more UI elements: a search box with a filter and a large drop down menu. We will use jQuery in both elements for the effect. We will also ...
Interactive Photo Desk with jQuery and CSS3
By Mary Lou on
In this little experiment we created an interactive photo desk that provides some “realistic” interaction possibilities for the user. The idea is to have ...
Multimedia Gallery for Images, Video and Audio
By Mary Lou on
This multimedia gallery for images, video and audio is a progression of our previous galleries. The idea for this new gallery is to integrate video and audio as exhi ...
UI Elements: Combo Box, Pop Out and Horizontal Slide Out Menu
By Mary Lou on
Today we will show you some useful and neat UI elements that are focused on selecting content. We will be using jQuery and some CSS3 properties for the style to give ...
Improved Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin
By cody on
Here’s an improved version of the Micro Image Gallery Plugin. I have added some features as suggested in the comments, specifically the auto play function, the ...
Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin
By cody on
There’s a new version here. In many blogs and news sites images are mostly included as an addition to the content. Space is often limited and therefore we thou ...
Website Stripping Effect with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Here is nice example of how to use the Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin by Elliott Kember. The idea is to show the original sketch of your website. This is done by dragging ...
PHP/MySQL Contact Form with jQuery
By chadking on
Here’s an implementation of a contact form with PHP and jQuery. Usually, one would only want the message posted by the user to be sent to an email address. Thi ...
Neat Photo Hover Effect with CSS Sprites and jQuery
By cody on
Here is a very nice effect for photos or some black and white images. We are using some CSS sprites for the photos to create a darken effect when hovering over the i ...
CSS Mania jQuery Plugin
By cody on
Here is a jQuery plugin that makes use of the CSS Mania API. CSS Mania is a well known website showcase site where designs can be submitted and rated. A lot of infor ...
A jQuery Heat Map
By cody on
Here is a very simple way ho to create a heat map with jQuery. The idea is to track the clicks of a user and then display the click pattern with semi-transparent dot ...
Awesome CSS3 & jQuery Slide Out Button
By Mary Lou on
Here is an awesome little slide out button. The inspiration for that button came from photoshop.com where Flash is used to create a nice slide out effect. This butto ...
Self-resizing Navigation Menu with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Today I am going to share a nice CSS only (with some jQuery) navigation menu that adapts the size of its list items automatically. Sometimes you need to reuse a menu ...
Some Useful JavaScript & jQuery Snippets – Part 4
By cody on
How to get client ip address with jQuery $.getJSON("http://jsonip.appspot.com?callback=?",function(data){ alert( "Your ip: " + data.ip); }); How to parse XML with jQ ...
Find Your First Twitter Follower
By chadking on
This application aims to show you who your first follower was in twitter. It’s done with PHP and jQuery and of course it uses the twitter API. Two of the avail ...
Some Useful JavaScript & jQuery Snippets – Part 3
By cody on
How to hide all children div except a specific one with jQuery? $('#target div:not(#exclude)').hide(); //or $('#target').children().filter(':not(#exclude)').hide(); ...
Some Useful JavaScript & jQuery Snippets – Part 2
By cody on
Check if cookies are enabled $(document).ready(function() { var dt = new Date(); dt.setSeconds(dt.getSeconds() + 60); document.cookie = "cookietest=1; expires=" + dt ...
Pause and Play Effect with jQuery
By cody on
Here’s an effect based on the one used in fml to stop and pause an event. The idea is that when we click on the play/pause button or press the space button, an ...
Some Useful JavaScript & jQuery Snippets
By cody on
How to refresh the src of an image with jQuery? $(imageobj).attr('src', $(imageobj) .attr('src') + '?' + Math.random() ); How to see if an image is loaded or not wit ...