Saturday, July 18, 2009

Visual Effects That Entertain And Amuse In Web Design

Want to turn your first time readers into long term visitors? Sometimes, it isn’t about the golden content you provide or the glorious insight you offer – sometimes it’s all about how much fun your readers have on your website.

This post is all about using visual effects on your blog and website effectively, creatively, and wisely.
Let your readers have fun when they check out your site – make things more interesting, more fun, and more aesthetically appealing, and you will have no issue keeping your readers forever.

Utilize these tools and you’re sure to impress anybody that visits your site. Give them something to play with!

1.Drawer Effect
This example demonstrates the Apple downloads slider/accordion effect using the jQuery Accordion plugin.

Sliding Panels
Plugin for easy implementation of sliding panels.

Highlight and Fade
jQuery plugin used to get the fade and highlight effect.

Carousel
jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order.

Simple Modal
A contact form built on SimpleModal.

Star Rating System
This is a jquery plugin for star rating systems.

Switch Stylesheets
The stylesheet switcher allows your visitors to choose which stylesheet they would like to view your site with.
Accordion Menu
Creating an Accordion menu.

Humanized Messages
A large and translucent message that’s displayed over the contents of your screen.

AJAX IM
AJAX IM is a browser-based instant messaging client.

Drag-and-Drop Content
Make any element on your website drag-and-droppable.

Instant Picture Effects
Allows you to add an instant picture effect (including tilt) to images on your webpages.

Fancy Form
FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements.

Image Flow
Sleek ‘Cover-Flow’ like effect for your images.

Nice Title
Create a floating title that is placable on any element on your website.

AJAX Poll
Create a fancy AJAX Poll for your website to help interact with your readers.

Curvy Corners
Create some very smooth rounded corners.

Checkbox
A replacement for the standard checkbox that allows you to change the look of checkbox elements in your page.