jQuery - it’s a popular, high-performance and compact JavaScript library/framework. jQuery will allow  you to reduce the amount of code you have to write for dealing with browser quirks, memory leaks, and repetitive code by providing you with a set of useful and highly-optimized and thoroughly-tested functions and methods.

100 Useful jQuery Techniques

Modal Windows

1. How to create a stunning and smooth popup using jQuery

In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll discover a technique for creating a slick modal window that appears when the user clicks on the triggering element (in this case, form submit input, but you can easily modify it into other HTML elements like <a>). The tutorial will also show you how you can deal with keypress events so that you can incorporate keyboard shortcuts into your interface.

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2. Simple jQuery Modal Window Tutorial

This modal window tutorial uses a rel attribute to indicate whether a link opens a modal window using inline content. You’ll witness a few popular jQuery methods in action like the .click() and .css() methods.

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3. Building modal panels with jQuery

This jQuery tutorial discusses a method for creating a modal window that builds in graceful degradation in its design for users who don’t have JavaScript turned on.

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Tool Tips

4. Build a Better Tooltip with jQuery Awesomeness

This tutorial will show you a method for replacing the built-in browser tooltips that appear on elements such as images and links with title attributes.

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5. Smart Tooltips with jQuery

This tooltip technique will check whether a link has a title attribute or not, and if it doesn’t, it skips it title.

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6. Coda Popup Bubbles

This excellent jQuery tutorial shows you how to create slick popup bubbles that appear when hovering over the target object.

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Module Tabs

7. Create a Slide Tabbed Box using jQuery

This simple tutorial will show you how to create a set a module tab interface that slides content left and right as you click on the tabs.

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8. Create a Tabbed Interface Using jQuery

This very detailed step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create a tabbed interface using jQuery.

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9. jQuery Tabbed Interface

This excellent tutorial is yet another variation to the popular tabbed interface.

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10. jQuery Tabs

This tutorial is in screencast format and is aimed at beginners and designers.

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Showcasing Images

11. Create Sliding Image Caption with jQuery

This image gallery tutorial shows you an interesting interaction technique for having captions that slide up to reveal more information about a particular image when the user hovers over it.

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12. Image Cross Fade Transition

This tutorial will show you how to fade another image in, superimposing onto the current image when the user hovers it. It can be a great way to display more information about a particular image.

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13. A Basic Image Gallery - The jQuery Way

Create a basic image gallery by leveraging the strengths of jQuery in traversing the DOM and in DOM manipulation.

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14. Image Reveal using jQuery

This quick and easy tutorial shows you the concept of hiding and showing elements by watching out for window events (in this instance - mouse hovers).

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15. Inline Image Enlargement with jQuery

This jQuery tutorial shows you a slick and animated method for enlarging thumbnail-sized photos when the user hovers on them.

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16. Slider Gallery

In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a sliding gallery that leans on jQuery UI to make dealing with theming the web component a breeze.

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17. Simple jQuery Image Slide Show with Semi-Transparent Caption

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the concept of tweaking opacity of elements, as well as using the setInterval function to delay the firing off of another function.

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18. BBC Radio 1 Zoom Tabs

This screencast tutorial shows you how to zoom in and out of an image and reveal a module tab interface when the user hovers of it. The tutorial was inspired the BBC Radio 1 site which shows a similar effect.

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19. Photo Slider Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how easy it is to implement the Photo Slider JS library to create a stunning but user-friendly sliding photo gallery.

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Interacting with Content / Displaying Content

20. Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery

In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll discover a method for creating a gallery of images that can be filtered by categories.

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21. How to Build a Super Duper News Scroller

This screencast-format tutorial will show you how you can create a news scroller to display dynamic news feed connected to an RSS feed. This tutorial also uses PHP andSimplePie to interface with RSS feeds.

22. Text Resizing With jQuery

Resizing text on a web page is often a valuable site feature to help adjust the text within the web page instead of using the browsers’ features. This tutorial goes over a method for being able to resize text with jQuery that will work regardless of what font size units you use (i.e. px, em, %).

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23. jQuery Sequential List

This tutorial leverages DOM manipulation to create a jQuery script that will replace your unordered (<ul>) and ordered (<ol>) lists into something fancier. The script you’ll learn to write in this tutorial gracefully degrades in the JavaScript off scenario.

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Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.

We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.

 

Basically, users’ habits on the Web aren’t that different from customers’ habits in a store. Visitors glance at each new page, scan some of the text, and click on the first link that catches their interest or vaguely resembles the thing they’re looking for. In fact, there are large parts of the page they don’t even look at. Read more…

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sability is a quality attribute of a system, which encompasses learnability, efficiency, memorability, error recovery, and end-user satisfaction. There are several common methods for addressing usability within software development: Alan Cooper’s interaction design, user-centered design that was popularized in the late 1980s, and more recently Larry Constantine’s usage-centered design (UCD). Although each method has its nuances, for simplicity I use the term “user experience design” (UED) to refer to them.

I believe that UED is critical to the success of agile software development techniques. UED helps to increase your chances of building the right software by placing emphasis on the usage necessary for roles to meet their goals and thereby identifying the behavior the software should have. Because UED practices can be applied with varying degrees of formality, they are compatible with the variety of agile methodologies available to us today. Read more…

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