14 Best Collection Of jQuery Web Interface Design Plugins and Tutorials

jQuery lets you design eye catching animated menus and sliders Create attractive user interface for your websites using jQuery wit these jQuery Web Interface Design Plugins and Tutorials.

1.jQuery Tutorial – Create a Realistic Hover Effect With jQuery

For one of the projects I’m currently working on with Rareview, we wanted to add a rising hover effect to a set of icon links. Using jQuery’s animate effect, I experimented with icons that have reflections and others with shadows.

2. jQuery Tutorial- Animated Navigation with CSS & jQuery

As I was checking out some flash sites for inspiration, I ran across a couple websites that had some nice navigation effects. I’m not a huge fan of wildly animated navs, but these had simple and elegant roll over effects that I liked. I decided to imitate the effect with CSS and jQuery, and would like to share this technique today.

3. jQuery Tutorial – Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

After reading Dave Shea’s article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure (no need for adding superfluous tags) and simpler code, too.

4. jQuery Tutorial – Animated Menus Using jQuery

I recently stumbled upon Dragon Interactive (dragoninteractive.com). It’s a pretty well designed site. However, the pièce de résistance is their rather cool animated menu. Now… had this been designed in Adobe Flash, I wouldn’t had paid much attention. A closer inspection revealed that the menu is plain XHTML, CSS and Javascript. Today, I’m going to show you how to create an animated menu (very similar to Dragon Interactive’s menu).

5. Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

Animation and visual feedback are great ways to assist a user in navigating and interacting with a website. While traditionally Adobe’s Flash was the goto for anything animated, these days with the magic of javascript we can avoid Flash altogether.

6. jQuery Tutorial – Create A jQuery Sliding Panel

Learn how to Create A jQuery Sliding Panel.

7. How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

In this tutorial we will be taking your average everyday website and enhancing it with jQuery.

8. jQuery Tutorial – Using jQuery to Produce Rich User Interfaces

9. jQuery Tutorial – Fading Menu – Replacing Content

The more I learn about jQuery, the more natural it feels. Probably because of how closely tied to CSS it is. From a design perspective, the syntax for jQuery is: “When I do this, make the CSS do this.” So now instead of thinking about CSS as page layout and a way to style your page when it loads, you can use in animation and change it on-the-fly to react to events that happen on your page. Take for example a menu. You can take the “click” event that happens when clicking on a menu to do lots of stuff.

10. Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery

Image grids that smoothly scale at the simple drag of a slider are no longer confined to desktop apps like iPhoto or Picasa. Thanks to some clever CSS and the jQuery UI, fluid image grids are now surprisingly simple to implement on the web.

11. jQuery Tutorial – Animate a hover with jQuery

Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information while doing that. Sounds simple huh? Well it is, but the effect is nice and can be nice for a portfolio, for example.

12. AJAX Fancy Captcha jQuery Plugin

Ajax Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers. We are introducing you to a new, intuitive way of completing “verify humanity” tasks. In order to do that you are asked to drag and drop specified item into a circle.

13. jQuery Tutorial – jQuery AJAX Contact Form

Today I am going to speak a little bit about a quick and easy way to make a jQuery AJAX Contact Form that employs a honeypot to foil pesky email bots.

14. jQuery Tutorial – Pulling Your Flickr Feed with jQuery

Feeds are the easiest way to view updated content, whether it’s through a feed reader or outputted onto a web site. There are many different types of feeds, such as RSS or Atom, and many different ways display them on your site, such as using MagpieRSS to parse an RSS feed in PHP.