20 jQuery Utilities For A Smashing Website

Webdesigners create and design a whole lot of widgets and utilities to make a website more appealing. Here, I have collected the best jQuery Utilities that will help every web designer and web master to build a beautiful yet fully loaded smashing website.

1. Favorite Rating with jQuery and Ajax

I received a mail from my reader that asked to me how to implement Show the love rating system like amypink.com. So I had designed Favorite Rating with jQuery and Ajax.. It is very simple, just changing little code on my old post Voting system with jQuery, Ajax and PHP.

2. Ajaxify – jQuery Plugin

Ajaxify is a jQuery plugin. it can convert all links in a web page into an ajax load and submit requests. with this ultra weight plugin, you can build a complex ajax website with one single line. welcome to web 2.0 world!

3. 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.

4. ShortKeys – jQuery Plugin

The ShortKeys – jQuery Plugin implements keyword shortcut keys for website.

5. prettyPopin – jQuery Plugin

The prettyPopin – jQuery Plugin provides a nice popup to display simple content or simple forms.

6. BigTarget – jQuery Plugin

BigTarget jQuery plugin helps you increase the size of click targets and get more call-to-action conversions
Say goodbye to boring Read More links by turning your entire content block into a clickable target!

7. Time Picker – jQuery Plugin

The Time Picker – jQuery Plugin is an attempt to enhance web time picking.

8. jQuote

jQuote is a plugin written by myself which allows for semantic blockquotes created on the fly with just one line of jQuery code for you to write – the hard work is all done for you!

Some of the features are:

* No duplicate content. If javascript is enabled, jQuote goes ahead and creates the blockquote.

* If javascript is not enabled, then obviously jQuote does not run. if jQuote does not run, nothing gets created. Meaning those with javascript disabled don t see duplicated

9. jsTree – jQuery Plugin

jsTree is a javascript based, cross browser tree component. It uses jQuery and Sarissa (optionally). jsTree is absolutely free (licensed same as jQuery – under both GPL and MIT – whichever suits your needs).

10. Timeago

Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. “4 minutes ago” or “about 1 day ago”).

11. Virtual jQuery Keyboard

For those of us who travel often, we often end up accessing our emails and other confidential web accounts on public computers. In such circumstances, we are completely at the mercy of keyloggers and other malicious software that track our keystrokes and record our passwords. Yet, very few websites provide their users with the option of using a virtual keyboard to key in (at the bare minimum) their passwords. Yes, a few banks do it, but considering how much personal information we store in vario

12. Side Navigation Tooltip or Popup Bubble

Side Navigation Tooltip or Popup Bubble is a tooltip or popup bubble using jQuery.

13. xLazyLoader

xLazyLoader jQuery Plugin is a small asynchronous loader for JavaScript, CSS and images. I have designed this plugin to lazyload a whole UI extension with JavaScript, images, CSS files and get a callback when all files are loaded.

14. Slide Top Panel – jQuery Plugin

Slide Top Panel – jQuery Plugin is a simple sliding top panel (top/down) using jQuery.

15. jTruncate – Text Truncation for jQuery

The jTruncate jQuery plugin provides simple yet customizable truncation for text entities in your web page.

16. Price Format – jQuery Plugin

jQuery Price Format Plugin is a plugin to format input text fields as prices. For example, if you type 123456, the plugin updates it to USD 1,234.56. It is costumizable, so you can use other prefixes and separators (for example, use it to get RS 1.234,55).

17. Speeding up Google Analytics load times with jQuery

Google Analytics requires JavaScript to be embedded in the web page. To keep the Google Analytics code from interfering with page rendering you can use jQuery to load and execute the ga.js file.

18. FancyPlayer – jQuery Fancybox and Flowplayer Integration

This tutorial shows you how to integrate jQuery Fancybox and Flowplayer.

19. Search And Share

Search and Share makes highlighting text a more functional action. More specifically, it attempts to understand the intention of a users text selection and present a variety of options accordingly. The criteria for understanding the intention is the character length of the selection, and the interpreted actions are copying, searching and sharing.

20. Real Person jQuery Plugin

This plugin is designed to help overcome automated form submission by requiring a real person to identify text made up of dots. The entered value is compared on the server with the generated value to determine whether processing should continue.