Monday, 20 October 2008

Useful resources and tutorials for developing stunning web sites

Are you looking for fresh and useful tutorials for developing stunning web sites? Take a look at this list of free resources ready to use in your web projects.

If you want to suggest other resources add a comment, thanks!

1. ModalBox
ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs.
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2. jQuery Cycle Plugin
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. Its implementation is based on the InnerFade Plugin by Torsten Baldes, the Slideshow Plugin by Matt Oakes, and the jqShuffle Plugin by Benjamin Sterling. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.
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3. Today's timetable
This script makes it easy to add a timetable to your webpage. I wrote it for a local radio station but didn't use it yet. I think it could be useful for TV programmes too, students' schedules, or many other applications... absolutely awesome!
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4. Embed QuickTime
Embed QuickTime is a jQuery plugin that helps you embed QuickTime movies to play directly on your webpage, instead of redirecting your video to a separate page or forcing you to embed a video using Flash. It changes regular image links to the embedded QuickTime video when they are clicked.
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5. FancyBox
FancyBox is fresh and Mac-like lightbox with these features: automatically scales large images to fit in window, adds a nice drop shadow under the zoomed item, groups related items and adds navigation through them (uses preloading), can display images, inline and iframed content, customizable through settings and CSS.
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6. View-source
View-source uses MochiKit.DOM and MochiKit.Async along with dp.SyntaxHighlighter to provide syntax highlighting for its own source code, and the sources for all of the other examples! The source file path is read in from location.hash, and loaded with doSimpleXMLHttpRequest, and then inserted into the DOM with replaceChildNodes.
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7. jQuert 3 State Switch
jQuery 3 State Switch Plugin(J3SSW) is a jQuery Plugin that expresses the selection and some states of list item using radio button and checkbox at the same time. The applications of J3SSW includes some interfaces for sort key or filter key of any search results.
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8. Flash Gallery
Flash Gallery is a free application that allows you to create a slideshow on your website easy and fast. You won't need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or from Flickr photostream.
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9. jQuery Feed Menu
jQuery Feed Menu allows users to click your feed icon and be presented with a list of feeds to choose from. It's simple and easy to implement.
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