Se sei un WebDesign, di professione, saprai che oggi giorno, è essenziale rendere un sito internet, (oltre che accattivante graficamente), dinamico e in movimento. Esistono quindi due soluzione, per riuscire nell’intento; la prima è quella di realizzare dei siti internet, mediante l’utilizzo del flash, ma questo comporterebbe alcuni problemi, per quanto riguarda l’indicizzazione del sito internet, nei motori di ricerca e l’accessibilità. La seconda soluzione, è l’utilizzo del Javascript. Esistono degli script, pre-realizzati, semplici da utilizzare, che vi aiuteranno a movimentare e migliorare le vostre realizzazioni.
Nick La, sul suo blog personale, WebDesignWall, ha ben pensato, di elencare alcuni dei migliori script, ed è uscita una mega lista, divisa per categorie, che vi riporto qui sotto per intero… buona lettura…
You’re probably very familiar with Lightbox — a light Javascript used to display overlay images on the current page. The original Lightbox was released in 2005. Since then, there are many scripts released with similar features using different approaches and Javascript libraries.
This is exactly the same as Lightbox JS, but written on top of jQuery library.
Thickbox is a jQuery plugin that is very similar to Lightbox, but comes with more features. It allows you to display: single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.
Note: Web Designer Wall uses Thickbox to display the gallery images and tutorial demos.
Highslide JS serves the same purposes as Thickbox, but it has the zoom effect and allows you to drag the overlay window.
FancyBox is a jQuery plugin that is designed to replace the overused Lightbox. It has similar features, but better transition effects (the design is Mac-like).
jQZoom allows you to show a magnified image of the thumbnail. This technique is commonly used in eCommerce websites (check out the Gap site for a sample).
Slideshow 2! is a javascript class for Mootools 1.2 to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website.
Using mootools v1.11, this javascript gallery and slideshow system allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website.
Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.
NoobSlide is a MooTools class that lets you create timed slideshows and sliding panels. Visit the website to view the demos.
This shows a demonstration of a slider widget from the jQuery UI library used to create the product slider as seen on the Apple – Mac website.
jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).
The carousel component manages a list of content (HTML LI elements within a UL) that can be displayed horizontally or vertically. The content can be scrolled back and forth with or without animation. The content can reference static HTML content or the list items can be created dynamically on-the-fly (with or without Ajax).
Carousel Slideshow is a fabulous DHTML script for the showcasing of images on your site. It displays images in a 3D, carousel fashion.
iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating carousel like widgets. You can use iCarousel as news ticker/scroller or image gallery slider.
Coda Slider is a jQuery plugin that imitates the panel sliding effects as seen on the Coda website.
This is a tutorial from jQuery For Designers to show you how to create the Coda panel slider.
Sliding Tabs is a mootools 1.11 plugin which adds a pretty neat effect. It’s a clone of something seen on Panic Software’s Coda site, which in turn was very similar to a widget used in the iTunes Music Store.
jQuery Tabs is a powerful and flexible jQuery plugin that lets you create customizable tab navigation (highly recommended).
Another awesome tutorial from jQueryForDesigners.com to show you how to create a basic tab navigation with jQuery.
MooTabs is a tiny(3kb) class for MooTools. As the name suggests, its main purpose is to help out with the creation of simple tab navigation.
A tutorial from Nettuts.com to show you how to create a sliding tab with jQuery.
A very flexible jQuery plugin that lets you create scrolling animation to any position of a web page with customizable erasing and speed options.
A simple MooTools script that creates smooth scrolling to anchors on a web page.
Learning jQuery shows you how to create an animated “scroll to anchor” with just a few lines of code.
A customizable jQuery plugin that displays tooltip popup — with either static html text or Ajax content.
Another nice Tooltip plugin.
A very simple jQuery script that displays tooltip and image preview (I use it on Best Web Gallery).
This plugin creates an accordion menu. It works with nested lists, definition lists, or just nested divs.
jQueryForDesigner.com shows you how to create the accordion slider as seen on the Apple website.
The Accordion gives you a fancy way to show only the content you really need.
Image Menu is a MooTools plugin that creates the horizontal accordion image menu.
sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.
A jQuery plugin that does the sIFR for you.
Facelift Image Replacement is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers.
The original stylesheet switcher by Paul Sowden. Believe it or not, this trick was invented in 2001 (not a modern trick after all).
Stylesheet switcher with jQuery.
CSS stylesheet switcher with MooTools.
A MooTools plugin that replaces the browser default checkboxes and radio buttons with custom styles.
Same as FancyForm, but using jQuery library.
A simple plugin that allows you to replace the form select list with custom styles.
Give your form a complete makeover with this Javascript and CSS.
A jQuery plugin that gives user hints on what to enter in the input fields.
This script lets you create custom slider controls associated with input fields.
More Form styling links at Noupe.com/css/form-elements…
A very plugin that allows you to build client-side validation and Ajax form.
A MooTools form validation plugin (similar to jQuery Validate).
JSValidate is a form validator that utilizes aspects of prototype and scriptaculous to bring you a simple to execute, non-intrusive javascript form validator. With minimal setup, your forms can be processing clean data in no time at all.
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non ci sono software in italiano per rendere un sito più dinamico ?
Premetto che un minimo di conoscenza di codice (html, javascript e se possibile css) è essenziale. Per la realizzazione facilitata di siti internet (dinamici o non) si può ricorrere a dreamweaver, del pacchetto Adobe, oppure nvu (free).
Ciao!