January, 2011

Registering in a website sometimes becomes annoying, especially if the website is a very simple service like bit.ly.

The Gravity Registration plugin tries to solve this, by creating a registration form that “pops out” the next required field

The plugin is obviously great for simple services, and services for the masses, where no personal information except e-mail is necessary.

You can add new fields and spice up the design with CSS.

Just don’t remember to stick to as few fields as humanly possible. ;) No one likes dozens of new fields to fill flying at them.

Have you ever wanted to implement Facebook-style text boxes?

Well, if you have, the BetterGrow jQuery plugin can save you an awful lot of time.

The above pictures illustrate the concept — once a user fills a box with text, it automatically resizes to a larger one.

You can configure the plugin so pressing ‘enter’ does nothing, or automatically adds a new blank line.

You can also set a fixed height, or maximum height for the text box.

Webdesignfan have published a set of 10 awesome “generic” icons.

The icons come in sizes of 32×32, 64×64, and 128×128 pixels, and come in .AI and .PNG file formats.

The icons would work everywhere – from web applications to blogs and desktop/mobile apps.

All of those are license free – use them any way you want! ;)

jMenu is a jQuery horizontal navigation plugin.

jMenu, besides jQuery core, also employs the jQuery UI library.

The plugin has numerous options like changing the open speed; creating flashy fade effects; etc. It keeps the markup relatively clean by using nested lists.

The best about jMenu is the demonstration, which basically writes the implementation for you–you only have to include the required libraries.