December jQuery Technique News

During December 2009 some new jQuery techniques appeared on the web developer horizon and we thought we should list them. In fact, we like jQurey so much that we decided to make this to a habit of us - to every month list the latest jQuery techniques released or updated during the period (if there is something that catches our attention).

Wikipedia: jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. Licensed under the MIT License and the GNU License.

Cashrevelations.com presents December jQuery Technique News - 11 New and interesting jQuery techniques or tutorials, released or updated during December 2009, with demos. You might also be interested to visit: 100 Ajax And JavaScript Techniques

11 New jQuery Techniques - December 2009

1. Rotating Billboard System With jQuery And CSS
In this tutorial you will use some images, CSS and jQuery to create the effect of a rotating billboard with two ads. The idea is to make one set of image slices disappear while another one appear.
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2. Animated Sharing Bar
Encourage your visitors to share your content on the networks by using pure JavaScript with the jQuery framework, to make an animated sharing bar, which will enable your website visitors to share posts on a number of social networks.
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3. jQuery Visual LightBox 2.3.0
Visual LightBox script ported to jQuery. Now you can choose which engine to use with your image gallery - jQuery or old Prototype JS. Overlay image floats on scroll staying always visible, fit image inside the thumbnail and set background color for the thumbnails and options to set watermark image, position, font, color, and transparency.
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4. Overlay With Slide Out Box
How to with CSS and jQuery create a semi-transparent overlay that covers all the page, and a message box that can be turned off again.
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5. Fresh Content Accordion
A simple, yet very eye-catching accordion with the help of CSS, jQuery and the easing plug-in for some fancy effects.
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6. FullCalendar - jQuery Plugin
FullCalendar is a jQuery plugin that provides a full-sized drag and drop calendar. It uses AJAX to fetch events on-the-fly for each month and is easily configured to use your own feed format.
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7. OpenSocial jQuery Mixi Platform 1.0.0
OpenSocial jQuery is a jQuery based concise JavaScript Library for rapid OpenSocial Applications development - The jQuery mixi Platform is a plugin to use the extension of mixi specifically.
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8. Day And Night - Scenery Animation
How to with jQuery and CSS create an amazing animated scenery with just a few lines of jQuery and some absolute positioned elements with images. Note: This will not work in any IE version.
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9. Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a navigation menu inspired by Dragon Interactive. CSS sprites can dramatically increase a websites performance and with jQuery you will implement awesome transition effects easily.
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10. Clickable Table Row
If an HTML table row contains only one <a> link, it can be useful to make the entire row clickable and make it activate that link. This tutorial shows how to make the entire row clickable so that clicking anywhere in the row is the same as clicking that link.
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11. Fixed Fade Out Menu
This tutorial has the aim to teach you to build a fixed navigation that follows the user when he scrolls, and only subtly showing itself by fading out and becoming almost transparent. When the user hovers over it, the menu then becomes opaque again.
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The jQuery Techniques are not in any particular order and as usual you decide what fits best for your purposes and demands - and Cashrevelations.com is not affiliated with any of the plugin or tutorial authors.

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