For the past week, we have been covering some of the most useful jQuery plugins from 2011:
Finally, today, we will wrap up this comprehensive list with a couple of boilderplate’s and some miscellaneous jQueryb plugins worth checking out.
There’s nothing like solid web typography. After all, one of the main things you do online is … well … read!
Also included in this list of 2011′s must useful jQuery plugins, is animation. Flash is dead, so you may want add a little jQuery joy to your website.
Let’s begin with typography:
I hope the past few posts on the most useful jQuery plugins from 2011 have been helpful. A nice pool of resources for you to check out as you develop and design. There’s nothing worse than having absolutely no starting point or point of reference when you’re looking for a solution. There’s so much crappy stuff out there, hopefully these lists will help you out!
Here’s a look at some of the most useful jQuery plugins for both modal window and mobile:
In the next day or two, we will finish wrapping up the most useful jQuery pluins from 2011. If we’ve missed one of your favorites, be sure to share it with us!
Last week, we took a look at the best of Form & Validation and Responsive Layouts, and now, here are plenty of the most useful 2011 jQuery plugin sliders, galleries and carousels you can choose from:
Responsive web design has increasingly become more and more important and is beginning to become a requirement for all new web designs.
Here are 8 jQuery responsive layout plugins highlighted by Speckyboy that are not only the most useful and popular from the this past year, but also the most ground-breaking:
2011 has brought a lot of awesomeness to the web.
With the death of Flash and the emergence of HTML5 and CSS3, a whole new way of web development is here, again.
The web is always evolving and moving forward, but this year has been especially monumental.
Here are a 9 jQuery form and validation plugins highlighted by Speckyboy that are not only the most useful and popular from the this past year, but also the most ground-breaking:
Building websites that jive on mobile devices and scale to browser size is becoming more and more important. As a web developer and designer, you strive to ensure the website experience is generally equal on all platforms. Or, that’s at least where we seem to be headed.
This is where responsive layouts come in handy. Not only is your webpage ready to be viewed on a giant 27-inch iMac, but it looks good on a netbook, too. Do you need a mobile app? Nope! Your responsive web design renders just fine on a smartphone and tablet, too.
One of the trickiest aspects of responsive web development and design is delivering cool and slick elements. After all, everything must be resizeable.
Here are two solid looking responsive jQuery photo galleries that can aid you in delivering full scalability without loosing the eye candy:
One of the best ways to theme wrangle, test plugins, and to go about just about any WordPress coding fun, is use a WordPress install dedicated for development and testing.
If you haven’t, I seriously encourage you to do so. (Tom wrote a tutorial a while back that can get you all setup.)
If you’ve tested enough themes and plugins, you will want to reset your test environment to clear out the options table along with everything else. Instead of re-installing WordPress, give this plugin a try:
This is a very simple way for you to build your first WordPress plugin. Basically, you can use this for every WordPress snippet, hack and mod that you would normally drop in your theme’s functions.php file.
If your modifications are theme dependent, like creating sidebars and menus, keep your functions.php edits in your theme.
However, if you’re creating shortcodes, adding custom post types/taxonomies, WordPress Dashboard customizations, etc … , build yourself a Functionality plugin.
It’s easy.
Here’s how:
There are many funky jQuery based images sliders/slideshows out there.
One of the best, and my personal favourite, is now also a WordPress plugin and the developer has now also launched a new and rather interesting paid version.
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