This plugins will definetly make you go UAU! Be sure that you will want to use atleast one of these in your next project. They vary from Front Office improvements to Administration panels enchantments. Also mind you that, some may not look very good, but these were selected because they can be so well customized (both design and usability) that they just overclass their sisters in terms of usefullness.
jQuery is one of the best lightweight javascript frameworks that emphasizes interaction between HTML and JavaScript. In the following article, you will find 8 plugins that will help both developers and designers bring more interactivity to their applications.
1. Nyromodal
With the avalanche of the lightboxes around the internet, it was very hard to find one plugin that would do them all:
- To be very easy to change its appearance
- To be very easy to use it for any type of element (iframe,div,flash,image etc)
- To be very easy to use callbacks
- To be very easy to integrate
Lucky for us, there is one: Nyromodal. After you download it, its a matter of minutes before you have it running. You can very much use it for anything you like (display a whole new page, a flash player or images). I customized it so i can display a Facebook style modal box that would do ajax actions behind the scenes. Once the user clicks on a button, the modal box will be closed triggering a callback in the main page.
Official site | Download | Demo
2. Table Drag and Drop
This plugin is very good for those of you who wish to add some drag & drop capabilities to your tables (rearranging items as an example). It supports ajax requests and is bundled with all kinds of cool stuff. It’s also very easy to integrate and can be extended very easily with very small parts of code written.
Official site | Download | Demo
3. Seek Attention
A plugin that is very simple to use yet very powerful if you have elements on your page that you want the user to pay special attention to. Works on all major browsers and gives a nice interaction to your webpage.
Official site | Download | Demo
4. Default Text
This plugin will help you whenever you want to have that default value with a different class on your form inputs (on focus/ on blur change).
5. qTip
This one is my favorite: the best plugin for tooltips in jQuery on the whole web. Its so easy to implement it, style it and it has so many features that you will use it all the time. Check it out for yourself.
Official site | Download | Demo
6. Tabbed
This is one is preety interesting. Its a plugin designed to help both designers and developers to have their web application content the same on all resolutions. It automatically changes the columns of your website to fit on any resolution
7. Interactive Date Range
If you ever wanted to use a date selector in your website then this plugin is just for you. Very simple to implement and its also very great. Has a nice transition and it has some nice callbacks.
8. Flot
One of the best plugins for creating nice graphs (stock graphs even) as bars, lines or pie. Its very intuitive, has alot of options to display the graphs and allows interactivity with the data from the graph in a very simple way.
