Weekly Freebies: 10 Brilliant jQuery Plugins

This week’s collection of awesome free resources includes some of our favorite jQuery plugins. Utilizing these in your site designs can save you loads of time in development and will help ensure that both your code and design is top-notch.

There are a few random plugins for tooltips and Twitter widgets but most of the resources you’ll find below help with image presentation. Whether you want a 3D carousel or a fullscreen slideshow, there’s something here for you!

Cloud Carousel – A 3d Carousel in Javascript

“There are some attractive Adobe Flash based solutions for this type of UI component, and while JavaScript versions exist, the commercial Flash products tend to have better aesthetics and polish. To redress the balance in JavaScript’s favour, I have created this jQuery carousel plugin.”

ColorBox

“A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3 and 1.4. Supports photos, grouping, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content. Appearance is controlled through CSS so users can restyle the box. Completely unobtrusive, options are set in the JS and require no changes to existing HTML.”

JQuery Cycle Plugin

“The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.”

Easy Tooltip – jQuery plugin

“I love the simplicity of using (and more important re-using) jQuery plugins. So I decided to release yet another plugin that came from my personal need – jQuery tooltip. I already claimed this to be the simplest tooltip ever. I made some modifications to it so now has some extra features.”

Fullscreenr

“So you want to have a background image on your website, which always fills the screen and maintains its aspect ratio? And it has to be centered, instead of focussing at the top left corner of the image? It is possible with jQuery and the fullscreenr plugin on this page! You can find a demonstration here and as you can see it works perfectly in all javascript enabled browsers. Note that Internet Explorer needs some extra code to enable the transparent png used for the raster over the background image. If you want to add this code I would like to refer you to unitpngfix, but of course you could just not support IE6.”

What Did We Miss?

Now that you’ve seen our little collection of jQuery plugins, leave a comment and let us know what plugins you couldn’t live without.

Be sure to check back next week for more Weekly Freebies from Design Shack!

Comments & Discussion

10 Comments

http://www.mystreamingnetwork.com Luca

thank you :) Some of these plugins’ new for me :)
max

http://maxb.net/scripts/jbgallery/
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http://www.vertstudios.com/blog/ Vert Studios

Pretty neat jQuery Sticky Scroller

http://www.vertstudios.com/blog/jquery-sticky-scroller-position-fixed-plugin/
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Dipankar

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/
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http://blaakmeer.com Peter

jParallax; http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html

and

Quicksand; http://razorjack.net/quicksand/
Luis

Beautiful advanced tag filtering with HTML5 and jQuery

http://luis-almeida.github.com/filtrify/
mausr

I wonder if I could just get somebody to professionally edit my paper? I have my research done and some written already.
WRT Company Representative Nov 14, 09, 02:47PM | #15
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nursingstudent78:
I wonder if I could just get somebody to professionally edit my paper?

Yes. This time, please choose a reputable company. There are quite a few.
nursingstudent78 Nov 14, 09, 02:54PM | #16
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Alrighty..that’s what I’ll do then.

Thank you so much for all your help. Looks like I’m going to be up for the next 48 hours STRAIGHT. Wish me luck!~
WRT Company Representative Nov 14, 09, 02:58PM | #17
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nursingstudent78:
Wish me luck!~

Good Luck. You can do it!
nursingstudent78 Nov 15, 09, 03:17AM | #18
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I cannot believe the audacity of this

I’m fuming right now. I just got off the phone with them once again. First off, earlier today I called on two separate occasions to ask where my writer was from, and I was given a different answer both times. Liars! Then I called to demand a refund because my writer couldn’t even type ONE sentence correctly, the ONLY sentence I’ve seen thus far. Amongst the lies and misrepresentation, I’m offered a 70% refund and a 5% discount on a future order? I even offered to accept a 90% refund but they were not having that.

In regards to my conversation a few minutes ago, I first talk to this one guy. I ask him if I could speak to his supervisor. He says there are no supervisors there to speak with. We go on with the conversation. After a couple of minutes of getting nowhere with my case, he says “I’m not in authority to give you more than a 70% refund”. So I say, that’s why I need to talk to the person who IS. He places me on hold for a second and this woman comes on the line. I say, are you the supervisor? She tells me YES! Liars, once again!! How many strikes is that now??? I can’t keep count anymore. So, I’m pleading my case to this woman, and of course I point out all of the misleading information I’ve been given up to this point. Oh, and I also had to point out the LIE I was told about there being no supervisor present, or maybe she was just lying about BEING a super. Who knows? Either way, another misrepresentation by this company. I tell her I did not pay to get lied to and mislead, if I had known the writer couldn’t type the one and only sentence I see from him, I wouldn’t have signed up for this!

Now here is the best part (and you won’t believe it but it’s true):
I swear this woman said this to me! “We are not getting paid to tell the truth, we are getting paid to produce the paper”. Her words exactly. Isn’t a business relationship built on trust? Isn’t trust and honesty fundamental for a thriving company? Isn’t customer satisfaction THE most important thing? DUH. Whatever, I will plaster them all over the internet now and chalk this up as a learning experience.

Now I’m concerned because I did pay with my debit card. I’m just not quite sure how to go about disputing this because I’ve never been in this situation before. I know if I had used a credit card this would be no problem. I think it’s different for debit transactions, isn’t it?
WRT Company Representative Nov 15, 09, 03:35AM | #19
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nursingstudent78:
I swear this woman said this to me! “We are not getting paid to tell the truth, we are getting paid to produce the paper”.

No comment as there really is nothing to say …
nursingstudent78:
Whatever, I will plaster them all over the internet now and chalk this up as a learning experience.
All fine and dandy as long as you do not settle for 70% or allow this to become an EXPENSIVE learning experience. Contact their payment processor and cancel the transaction. Tell them that you did not receive the product paid for. They will probably reverse the charge.
nursingstudent78 Nov 15, 09, 12:11PM | #20
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Apparently I do not have the option now. I woke this morning to an e-mail they sent me overnight saying they refunded 70% of my funds, which I specifically told them would be unacceptable.

It’s quite obvious they had no confidence in their product. If they did, they would of completed the order and maybe by some chance after I saw he paper, I would have a change of heart. I told them I did not want a refund if it was only going to be a partial one!! (I bet there was never even a writer)

This payment processing company they use, i’m not familiar with. But I will look into it.
pheelyks Edited by: pheelyks Nov 15, 09, 12:22PM | #21

When you pay with a debit card online, it’s usually processed as a credit card transaction (your debit card has a Visa or Mastercard logo, right?). If so, it is still fully possible to dispute the charge. The fact that they gave you a seventy percent refund actually helps your case–they kept part of your money and won’t be delivering a product, which means they have no leg to stand on.

Call the 800 number on the back of your card immediately and start the dispute process. Explain that you attempted to purchase some research that the company subsequently informed you they could not adequately provide, and that they kept 30% of your money. If they haven’t already put the 70% back into your account, make sure to insist that the entire charge be reversed.

Not only will doing this likely result in a full refund to you, but it will help other customers in the future–the more people complain about these companies, the less desirous credit card companies and banks will be to do business with them (Visa/Mastercard loses money on a reversed charge; they spend the time processing the payment, refund, and dispute and don’t see a dime for any of it). Eventually, this will make it more difficult for scam companies to receive payments in the first place.
nursingstudent78 Nov 15, 09, 12:52PM | #22
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Excellent advise! Yes I have the M/C logo so I’ve sent an e-mail to my bank and will call them 1st thing tomorrow (they aren’t open on the weekends). I am very persistent and have a long-term, well established relationship with my bank, so I see no problem in getting my money back now, thanks to your advisement.. :) You are a genius!!

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