Create Mega drop down menus with multiple categories using CSS and Jquery . Often used on e-commerce or large scale websites, mega menus are becoming more and more popular, as they offer an effective solution to displaying a lot of content while keeping a clean layout. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a cross-browser, awesome CSS-only drop-down mega menu, using nice CSS3 features.

SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript

Through the process of writing many jQuery plugins I have come to a point where I follow a pretty standard structure and design pattern when developing my plugins. It for one greatly speeds up my development time as it’s just one part of the equation I don’t need to think about and can just copy and paste. I already know how things will be structured and will work for the most part so I can focus on just building out the main code.

vintageJS is a tool where you can upload your images and apply a custom retro, vintage look to them for free. Just try it out: upload your photo, apply the vintage effect and share the retro image it with your friends via facebook or twitter. Click on the image below to see different examples of the effect:

A jQuery Social Plugin to create a single social media stream from multiple social network feeds Socialist is a social feed plugin that combines multiple social media feeds in one place. Use it to combine content and create a social wall from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Flickr, Tumblr, Craiglist RSS and other social networks.

Tiny Circleslider is a circular slider / carousel. That was built to provide webdevelopers with a cool but subtle alternative to all those standard carousels. Tiny Circleslider can blend in on any wepage. It was built using the javascript jQuery library.

Uploading in HTML has always left much to be desired from developers. With the introduction of the File and Drag-and-Drop APIs, we are beginning to see improvements across many sites whose core functionality relies on uploading. In this first of a series of tutorials on advanced uploading techniques, we will discuss reading file information and posting that up to a server.

Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on top of the Prototype javascript framework. For some extra effects you can add Scriptaculous as well. Check the demos below to see what Starbox is all about and read on for more information on how to customize your own Starboxes.

jRumble is a jQuery plugin that rumbles, vibrates, shakes, and rotates any element you choose. It's great to use as a hover effect or a way to direct attention to an element. You can control the X, Y, and rotation range, the speed, and event trigger for the rumble.

Today we will show you how to use and customize the brilliant jQuery Booklet Plugin by talented Will Grauvogel. We will create a virtual Moleskine notebook with latest posts from the blog. You can find the beautiful Moleskine Photoshop file by Dennern at deviantart here: My Moleskine (PSD) For the navigation arrows we used the pixel perfect PSD provided by premiumpixels.com under Simple Little Arrows (PSD) Ok, so let’s get started!

Javascript frameworks have exploded on the scene over the last few years but they're no replacement for a good toolbox: those little snippets of code you seem to include in every single project. Here's my list of 10 essential Javascript tools everyone should have at their fingertips!
#1 - Numeric Sort.
#2 - Formatting Numbers

Couple of months ago I found myself looking for a jQuery plugin to create a horizontal accordion. I needed a simple and clean solution for one of my projects and, at a first glance, Slidedeck seemed to be what I was looking for. Unfortunately, this turned out to be not that flexible as I wished it to be. Hence, I decided to create my own horizontal accordion plugin

This tutorial contains code and discussion from the upcoming book Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig.

Learning Advanced JavaScript

1) Our Goal
2) Defining Functions
3) Named Functions
4) Functions as Objects
5) Context
6) Instantiation
7) Flexible Arguments
8) Closures
9) Temporary Scope
10) Function Prototypes
11) Instance Type
12) Inheritance
13) Built-in Prototypes
14) Enforcing Function Context
15) Bonus: Function Length

Modernizr is a small JavaScript library that detects the availability of native implementations for next-generation web technologies, i.e. features that stem from the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications. Many of these features are already implemented in at least one major browser (most of them in two or more), and what Modernizr does is, very simply, tell you whether the current browser has this feature natively implemented or not.

Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.

Dojo saves you time and scales with your development process, using web standards as its platform. It’s the toolkit experienced developers turn to for building high quality desktop and mobile web applications. From simple websites to large packaged enterprise applications whether desktop or mobile,