Best Collection Of jQuery Application Design Tutorials

jQuery, the “write less do more code” helps to create eye catching, useful applications and widgets with ease. These jQuery Application design tutorials lets you create jQuery applications that add a style to websites and meet the simple needs.

1. jQuery Tutorial – Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

One struggle that still remains today in web design is displaying all of the redundant information on every page. For example, a login form. What if there was a way to easily make the content accessible on every page, but keep it hidden until needed? Well you can, by making a top panel that when clicked, will reveal its self and its content. But we need to make this look nice, so we’ll also animate it.

2. jQuery Tutorial – How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.

3. jQuery Tutorial – Use the jQuery UI to Control the Size of Your Text

JQuery’s UI can add so much to a web page. There are many different widgets that the UI provides. One up and coming star, is the slider. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a slider to control the text size of an article on a page. This lets the user control exactly the size that suits them, and is also a pretty impressive feature to have on a site!

4. jQuery Tutorial – Create a 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. It’s usually frowned upon to rely heavily on jQuery to design your sites, but it’s fun to go wild every now and then. In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to use jQuery to create a completely coded Dashboard, just like Leopard! This can be handy in hiding a whole lot of gadgets or widgets you don’t have space for!

5. jQuery Tutorial – Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML

It makes sense to forgo database tables and server-side code when you need to store a limited amount of non-sensitive data. Accessing this data can be a snap with jQuery because the library was built to traverse XML documents with ease. With some custom JavaScript and jQuery magic you can create some interesting widgets. A good way to demonstrate this functionality is by building a browsable Amazon.com books widget.

6.jQuery Tutorial – Exactly How to Create a Custom jQuery Accordion

Today, I’ll show you how to build a custom accordion that is more “bandwidth efficient”. Accordions can be very useful for showing lots of different sections of data in a small amount of space. jQuery UI has a built in Accordion function, but according to the jQuery UI Build your Download, the size of the Core jQuery UI and Accordion scripts are 25kb and 16.6kb, respectively.

7. jQuery Tutorial – Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud

A tag-cloud is a great way of showing visitors to your blog the main topics of interest that are available. There is also additional information contained in a tag-cloud. Aside from the actual links themselves, which give people an idea of the subjects that your site covers, they can also show how popular the different subjects are. Another great thing about tag-clouds is that they can be used to describe the frequency of anything; you can link to articles, blog posts, images, video, or anything else that you have in abundance on your site.

8. jQuery Tutorial – Creating a Filterable Portfolio with jQuery

If you have worked in your field for a while, there is a pretty good chance that you have a rather extensive portfolio. To make it a little easier to navigate, you will probably be tempted to break them into different categories. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make “filtering by category” a little more interesting with just a little bit of jQuery.

9. jQuery Tutorial – Build a Better Tooltip with jQuery Awesomeness

Browsers will automatically display a tooltip when you provide a title attribute. Internet Explorer will also use the alt attribute. Learn to Build a Better Tooltip with jQuery Awesomeness in this Tutorial. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to quickly write a jQuery plugin that will replace the typical browser tooltip with something a little flashier.

10. Building a jQuery Image Scroller

In this tutorial, we’re going to be building an image scroller, making use of jQuery’s excellent animation features and generally having some fun with code.

11. Create a Fun Tweet Counter With jQuery

In this tutorial, we will look at using jQuery to call Twitter’s API and then use the results to create a widget for a blog or personal website that shows what hours during the day we tweet at the most. Add the twitter style to your website with this fun Tweet counter.

12. Fun With Canvas: Create a jQuery Graph Plugin

Combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin.

13. “Outside the Box” Navigation with jQuery

Just about every website uses the regular navigation concepts we’re all used to. After awhile this can get pretty boring, especially for designers who thrive on creativity. While mimicking the OS X dock and stacks isn’t new, it’s certainly not common.

14. Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI

In this tutorial we’re going to be using the jQuery UI slider widget to create an attractive and functional content slider.

15. Creating a Keyboard with CSS and jQuery

Sometimes it’s just fun to play around with the programming languages we know and see what we can create. I thought it might be nice to create a little online keyboard with CSS, and then make it work with jQuery.

16. jQuery Tutorial – 5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery

There are at least five ways to make AJAX calls with the jQuery library. For beginners, however, the differences between each can be a bit confusing. In this tutorial, we’ll line them up and make a comparison.