Fresh jQuery Plugins for 2011

jQuery is a real treasure for web developers and front-end users because it makes life easier for both of them. It has became a good tradition to share some useful jQuery plugins with you guys, and today is the day when the new piece of these goodies will be revealed.

The following collection is a mix of fresh and new plugins that certainly would make your website a better place to be. We want to say thanks to jQuery community that puts its efforts in creating more new plugins and developing amazing jQuery framework, pushing it to the limit. We also want to say that you really rock guys! Well, enough ranting - let’s get acquainted with our newcomers.

1. Website Tour with jQuery

As you may have guessed this jQuery plugin allows you to create an excellent interactive tour through your website that will help your visitors find out more information about it. The tour has a very user-friendly navigation that helps users browse it with comfort.

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2. jqDnR

Add the power and simplicity of drag and drop technology to your website by installing this light-weight jQuery plugin. This is a great way to enhance your website's usability and make it more user-friendly.

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3. jQuery Mobile

This framework will be useful for mobile web developers because its main function is to help you easily create mobile applications that will work on most of mobile platforms.

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4. jMenu

This is a menu with unlimited horizontal sub-menus powered by jQuery. It supports some spectacular effects, and you can easily customize this plugin by editing CSS file without touching the JS file.

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5. Columnizer

Columnizer, thanks to the awesomeness of CSS3 jQuery, lets you change the number of the columns. But you should never forget that Internet Explorer doesn't like CSS3 and in this case you cannot take advantage of it.

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6. 960 Grid on jQuery-Mobile

This is another great jQuery plugin for mobile devices which brings the power and beauty of 960 grid to you. So this plugin makes jQuery mobile more flexible and opens new perspectives for the further development.

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7. Nivo

This superb slider has so many cool features that we can easily state that this is truly the best one. I'm sure that you'll be happy to have the slider with 16 transitions effects, great navigation, linking images option, and many more useful things.

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8. liteAccordion

Yes, this accordion will improve your website's navigation, and you'll be surprised by its really tiny size - it weights only 4.5kb!

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9. Zoomy

As a title says, this plugin's main function is to zoom the pictures. Zoomy plugin requires two copies of the same image to be used, one for the zooming and another for the general view.

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10. Uniform

Uniform helps you enhance your web forms with beautiful elements like drop-downs, radio buttons, and other.

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11. jQuery Touchwipe

jQuery Touchwipe is really a light-weight plugin (1kb) that lets users scroll through the image galleries on iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

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12. Easy Paginate

Easy Paginate is a jQuery plugin that improves your website's navigation with pagination controls. You can easily adjust plugin settings according to your needs.

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