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After reading Dave Shea's article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure (no need for adding superfluous tags) and simpler code, too.

Changing the position of the background image felt to be the best approach to creating the type of effect we're looking for (and I'm not the first to think so: see the examples at the end of this article).

This tutorial explains how to use mootools and pathfusion multibox to implement a very nice lightbox on your website. When an user clicks on a thumbnailed image, the script displays a big image preview in a window above all other page elements.

Follow this simple tutorial that will allow you to create your own PHP based Image Uploader - maybe for a image hosting website idea that you may have.

In this article we’d like to present a list of over 20 Useful and New jQuery plugins you should always have ready to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. Image Cross Fade Transition, Smooth Marquee, Auto-populate multiple select boxes, Feed Menus, sliders, menus, animation that should give you a useful and powerful toolbox which you can use in your future projects.

Anchor are really useful when you have alot of content, being able to jump 1 page of content can be really handy, that sometimes happen with corporate websites.

Unfortunately an anchor is just plain bad in design, when a user click on a link he pretty much always think that he will go to another page, but in this case, he just jump down the content, this can be really disorienting, even for me, when it is not clear a link is an anchor and not a normal link.

How to animate images on the HTML page? Is it complicated? What tools and technologies you need to use? This article will explain simple image animation and show live demo.

The HTML rendering model is based on boxes. Every element of a web page is a box set on a grid. There are limitations we've come to accept. One of them is the inability to build an overlapping diagonal navigation. Without using image maps and complicated Javascript, it's a task that seems almost impossible. In this article, I'm going to share a method I developed to overcome the problem.

Whether you’re an airline, task manager, or just have a birthdate field on your registration form, a popup date picker makes selecting dates considerably easier for users, and overall enhances the functionality and feel of the site. jQuery UI provides a datepicker widget that can easily be incorporated into your site.

G. Scott Olson has been searching for a cheat sheet for jQuery for donkeys. So have a lot of others I bet.