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A list of jQuery interface elements and plugins developed by Eyecon

Hello folks! First of all, sorry for the delayed writing on our blog, but we had a few re-inventing to do over here at WebGurus, and that ate up all our time.
I’m using  jQuery for 2 years now and I search for addons and plugins for it every day. Most of my searches are targeted [...]

5 jQuery UI Dreamweaver extensions you can use to simplify your everyday work

I believe most of the web developers and web designers use Adobe products to accomplish their work so I wrote a list for those who like and use jQuery UI as their interface framework to help them do their job in a more simple way than ever before.
The simplicity of using dreamweaver extensions is that [...]

10 best modal boxes for web design projects

I have noticed that every time we, the web developers, need a modal window, alert box or a full-size image preview for one of your projects it drives you crazy until you find one that suits your requirements. You have a bunch of modals to choose from, but either it can be customized or it [...]

Mootools Slider With Range Indicator (two knobs)

I had been looking for a double pinned slider for one of my projects. My requirements were simple: I had to implement a slider with range marker.  I searched for hours and hours, and I did find some nice sliders on mootools forums but it wasn’t what I wanted. I finally changed my search keyword [...]

Supersized – Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin by buildinternet.com

I found this jQuery plugin while searching for a non-flash background image slideshow for a project. Well it did the trick!
Supersized is a jQuery plugin that automatically sizes (background) images to the size of the browser and runs them as a slideshow. It is lightweight and plays nice with all browsers.
Features include image resizing to [...]

jQuery Image Preview – New Plugin “imgPreview”

The ‘imgPreview’ plugin allows your users to preview an image before clicking on it and, out of necessity, will preload the image so when a user does click through to it there is no waiting time!

The image preview shows up in a tooltip-like box appearing alongside the user’s cursor when hovering over a link. The plugin is entirely unobtrusive; it does not require any hooks to target specific links (no non-semantic classes); it will automatically detect the anchors that are linking to images and will only apply the preview effect to them.

10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, intuitive and responsive user interfaces that let their users get things done with less effort and time.