Introduction:

We as a Professional Web Design Company has selected these jQuery Plug-ins for your knowledge & awareness.

In Web Development, jQuery is the most powerful invention at the present age of technology. By referring my last Post on jQuery “Effective Use of jQuery to your Web Pages” , it is known that client side technologies are pretty much helpful in adding interactivity to your website. Take the example of Ajax, Flash Scripting, Java Scripting (previously) and Now jQuery.

Now take a precise look at Website Interactivity:

1. When we talk about Interactivity, generally it means that “Capable of acting on or influencing each other”.
2. In the web context interactivity means that how effectively your website interacts with your potential customer?
3. The Key to success in a website design is the interactivity.
4. Interactivity makes the website design more usable and friendly.

Imagine the scenario: There are two shopping stores & they are right next to others. Both are dealing in the same goods but one shopkeeper is earning more than the other shopkeeper. What could be the reason? Only the possible reason is the concept of interaction with the people. And this interaction can be done on the basis of customer feedback, customer suggestions, attractive offers etc… So when you relate the overall scenario with the website interactivity, it means how much your web design is interactive so that a site visitor is well communicated.

I would like to share advance jQuery effects the simple but yet inspiring by which interactivity can be added to your designs.

Interactive jQuery Effects For your Website

1. J Query Plug-in Named Flip!
Flip is the “jQuery plug-in” which adds the functionality to your text to be flipped in all directions. Review down the complete tutorial by click on the following image:

2. Image Flow Plug-in
“Image Flow plug-in” of the jQuery works as the same like of a traditional Image Slider. But its transaction on a page is really fine. Consider its real time implementation by clicking on the above mentioned image:

3. Map Building With a jQuery Instead of Flash

You can easily use jQuery code along with Ajax to build up the engaging interface as mentioned below:

4. Image Zoom Out Effect
Consider the “Image Zoom Out” effect which is implemented with the jQuery as mentioned below:

5. Marvelous Background Image Navigation
It’s a great Background Image Navigation which is more of less a custom web design.

6. J Query Panning Slideshow
Here jQuery Panning Slideshow plug-in is implemented as a diagonal navigation. View it:

7. Forming an Interactive Picture With jQuery
This type of functionality can be add-up with those websites which requires extensive screen spaces. Clicking on the different sections of the website exposes a model box which displays further information about clicked section.

8. Cloud Zoom Plug-in of jQuery
Cloud Zoom is a jQuery plug-in, which works absolutely great for the photo’s showcase website likes models, Fashion outlets Image Gallery. Moreover consider it features and result:

9. Make Retina Effect With jQuery
This “plug-in” will easily be understandable for those who are great fan of Apple products like iphone, ipad or iPod touch. There is a Retina effect in the jQuery which zooms the small text greatly.

Consider its real implementation:

10. Fancy-  jQuery Photo’s Transition
With the use of this jQuery Plug-in, you can view your photos like a slide-show with a fancy transaction. Have a Look:


11. Avia Slider
With the jQuery Plug-in you can create an image slide-show with unique transitions among the images.
A Few transactions are as mentioned below:

• Randomized Transitions

• Dropping Curtain

• Fading Curtain

12. Photo Shoot Effect With jQuery & CSS
Photo Shoot effect is beautifully handled with the jQuery. This effect is implemented in the image slide show. Consider the following link to operate this plug-in:

Conclusion

Although Flash still has importance in web designing & a powerful tool we have. Designers use it where it is required but jQuery is the client side technology launched as a new framework API of Java Script which implements Flash functionality with less effort.

Please Leave your comments about this post of “jQuery Focused with Website Interactivity” !

Introduction

Few years back there was not much scope of graphic designing, but with the passage of time, the networks of network (internet) has grown up to optimum level and this increases the scope of graphic designing in the web industry.

The use of graphics in the web is known as web designing. Web designing is the art of making the content attractive and appealing to the site visitor so that web masters get the benefit of less bounce rate and conversion with the high traffic.  There are the designers who are engage with the professional web design companies in order to deliver quality results.

We as A Professional Web Design company deals in web design, web development and internet marketing of the websites. Considering your needs and requirements we deliver the best and cost effective solutions for your organization.

We recommend the best graphic design freeware tools which you can use for adding the graphic into the website.

1. Flockdraw :

Summary:

It is a Freeware Web based Painting/drawing tool.

Features:

It has almost every feature of MS Paint; with drawing you can also have the chat facility with the other people in the chat room.

Usage:

It can be extremely useful when you want to show your drawing/creativity to your client, for instant purpose you need to understand some points visually you can use this web based software and invite your client on the chat room. This web based application can also be used for the entertainment purpose by designers.

2. Paint.net :

Summary:

It is really a professional tool for drawing, painting and photo editing. You can download it and use it as a desktop application. It has a great and user friendly interface. But there is one requirement that is you must have windows upgraded version like SP3 or windows Vista.

Features:

An innovative user interface with the support of layers. You can do unlimited undo, can add special effects & a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Usage:

Paint.net has the active and online community which provides tutorials, online help and various plug-Ins. It can be positively used as a graphic design application for creating most powerful elements for your website.

3. Blender :

Summary:

Blender is the freeware 3D Multimedia content creation suite. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Features:

1. It has the Flexible and fully configurable window layout.
2. Undo support at all levels.
3. Built-in text editor for comments and editing Python scripts
4. Unwrapping methods like angle based unwrapping.
5. You can build animation (skeleton) with fast creation mode.
6. Automatic skinning support.

Hence many advance options are supported by the Blender Application which provides you an easy way for 3D designing.

Usage:

It can be best used as a 3D making software, and you can make cool and attractive animations which can be inserted into your website.

4. Myna :

Summary:

If you want to merge some audio with your graphic works, then this application is best for this kind of work.

Features:

1. You can make your audio tracks remix which can be inserted into your graphic design.
2. Moreover you can independently modify the audio file like sets its tempo, merge other audio effects, high nodes, low nodes effects.

Usage:

Very interesting and entertaining software to modify your music files. And you can place these unique music files into your website background.

5. Boxee :

Summary:

With the help of Boxee Tool you can view your design media under one place. It is a freeware tool. Moreover they have their own services which you can avail it and view all the media either into your laptop or in your big Screen LCD TV. They have full tutorial available for attaching your laptop with your digital TV.

Features:

1. It can manage all multimedia items like videos, audios.
2. Sharing feature is also there for

Usage:

You can download it, and customize this software for your website, and can merge all the multimedia items into one platform.

6. ImgBurn :

Summary:

ImgBurn is the software application used to burn your web projects into the CD, DVD or even HD/DVD.

Features:

1. It has several Features which includes read, write or build mode.
2. Read mode provides the DVD to read for an image file.
3. Create Image file from your computer files.
4. Write the files or image into the Disc.

Usage:

It provides the useful means of transferring data into reliable media sources and excellent choice for graphic designers to use the functionality free.

7. Phoenix :

Summary:

Phoenix allows basic image retouching to advance or complex effects. By viewing its home page you can get the clear picture of what kind of work it can do for you.

Features:

1. It is a complete web based image editing tool available for designers.
2. It has a toolbar on its left side of the browser window likewise fireworks or Photoshop.
3. It has different panels for editing image.
4. Useful options for layer handing or effects like transparency.

Usage:

Phoenix provides the complete image editing features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity & ease of web based application.

8. BeFunky :

Summary:

It’s a Smart Photo Enhancement tool & provides means of editing images with a single click.

Features:

1. BeFunky provides image modification and effects to the daily usage pictures.
2. It easily fixes your daily photo’s problem with less effort.
3. There are digital goodies available which can be add-up with your photos like frames, glasses etc…

Usage:

You can modify your images personally for yourself, can modify your face book profile picture, or as a designer you can add different effects online.

9. Splashup :

Summary:

Love Photoshop but hate the price? Then use Freeware photo editing web application that is Splashup.

Features:

1. It is not recommended to install any big application software for designing tiny elements. You can use splashup for speedy work online.
2. It is very light in use, so any user can use it online with less to medium connection speed.
3. All featured tools are available for editing or adding effects to the image.

Usage:

Designers and general public can use it easily for image editing.

10. Picasa :

Summary:

Picasa is the freeware Google product for graphic designers that make your pictures look great.

Features:

1. Manage your photos; organize your digital photo album with Picasa.
2. Can create slide shows, prints & wallpapers.
3. You can easily do basic fixes of your photos with less effort and time.
4. Tuning options are there for images.
5. Collage feature allow you to combine your best pictures together with a cool background.
6. You can create virtual photo albums.
7. Picasa has the powerful searching capabilities by assigning tags & stars to photos.
8. With the Sharing feature, you can share or sync your photos online easily.

Usage:

Google Picasa can easily be used by the general public and professional designers.

11. Dropbox :

Summary:

Dropbox is the great tool we have to manage our all data either multimedia or simple text.

Features:

1. One of the great features of the dropbox is that it is meant for synchronizing your all data. So wherever you go for travel, you will get all of your files same.
2. It gives you the file access by assigning you a single magic box, which can be assess into your laptop, pc or mobile phone.

Usage:

The persons, professionals, designers who use to travel much frequently can use dropbox. Even you can place your photos, multimedia items into the dropbox.

12. Executor :

Summary:

Executer is a multipurpose launcher program and a customized version of Windows Run Functionality.

Features:

1. Programs / short-cuts.
2. Documents / files / folders.
3. You can assign number of keywords like shutdown, logoff,  show date, week, show (ip),  start screen saver.
4. Executer has the fastest searching mechanism based on the assignment of keywords, because keywords are the searchable by the user and are easily to be remembered.
5. Auto Completion is supported for keywords,
6. Send emails
7. You can do fast calculations
8. Manage and View running applications.

Usage:

The Designing is the act of making the content much attractive with the use of different designing tools. Sometimes it’s become so hard to locate the element or item related to designing. So this tool can help you in this regard to keep track of your all data, software’s, applications, and multimedia items. And provide you an easy way to perform tasks efficiently.

Website is the real face of your organization which needs to be optimized according to the defined standards. By now, all professional web designers & developers pay special attention on usability for their work.

The Dictionary defines the Word usability as:

“The quality of being able to provide good service”

There is compiled list of basic usability factors that must be followed when you are developing a website.

1. How does User think?

Users on a Web have the same behavior as of Customers on a store. Web users quickly look at each new page, scan some of the text, click on the main heading link, see the pictures, get valuable information and then closed the window.

So there is a need of defining priorities to the web element with the effective use of web designing.

2. Manage to focus user attention

A human eye is really a non-linear device. Thus web users can straight off recognize patterns, edges and motions. That is the reason why video marketing is the best way to attain the user’s attention.

A website User Interface may comprise of images or a text. Obviously an image is more attention getting object then a plain text or a bold text looks more eye catching than a simple text. So with the appropriate use of text or images you can attain the user’s attention.

3. Don’t make user think.

According to the first law of Usability (Krug’s Law):

The webpage should be obvious and self explanatory.

You as a designer or developer, when you are developing a website, your job is to get rid of question marks for the user. The website architecture should be defined in a way that it won’t confuse users. For example -It should be known to the user that what page will be opened after clicking the About Us page.

4. Make use of Effective Writing

Always Make use of Effective copy writing.

As Web medium is different from the print media So user’s browsing habits and user’s preferences should be considered while designing a website.  Users don’t read long text blocks without images and keywords marked in bold or italics.

5. Try for Simplicity

You as a designer should follow the principle of KIT (Keep It Simple), and make your web pages user friendly. Mostly users are looking for the valuable information rather than a design so don’t screw up the site with the use of graphics.

6. Don’t be afraid of White Spaces

White spaces are beneficial of reducing the knowledge load for the visitors and give them a feeling of spaciousness. Thus make it possible for them to perceive the information presented on the screen. When a new visitor lands on the homepage first he/she tries to scan the whole page and expect for the digestible pieces of information.

So don’t hesitate in leaving white spaces into your website.

7. Do not Re sizes the user’s Browser Window

Do not try to re size the use’s browsers window ever. It might feel good to the designers or developers that to put a small JavaScript code and call it onLoad() of the web page. We see this type of grievous technique mostly with the spam sites. So don’t go for it.

8. Tiny Clickable Areas

Hyper Links are designed to be clicked, so make them neither too small nor too big that it looks awkward or not clear to the site visitor. Consider the example given below in which links are made too small:

Consider another example in which the comments link looks much larger in the following example:

A larger clickable area means there is increase in size mentioned in the following example:

1 | <a href=”http://www.mydomain.com” style=”padding: 5px ;”> my domain<a>

9. Pagination used for Wrong purpose

Pagination is used for dividing the content into the number of pages depends upon its length so that it won’t consume much bandwidth because too many items on a single webpage can slow down the loading speed. Pagination often found in the websites like long listing of product items in the online shopping cart or in any photographer gallery.

But in today’s web, pagination is used for other purposes too. There is no meaning to use it in splitting the large articles into multiple pages just to get the large amount of page views. So avoid these techniques which comes in black hat SEO.

10. Duplicate Page titles

Title is the html tag used to differentiate your web pages. Unique title of each web page gives benefit not only to the visitors but also give benefit to search engine prospect. First users get the clear idea before visiting to the web page what he/she is going to view. Second benefit of Search engines ranking because Search engines use to displays 70 characters of title tag.

<title>Web Design and Development Firm</title>

But incase if your web page titles are general it gives benefit neither to the users nor to the search engine prospect.

11. Content that is difficult to scan

There is a term known as copy which refers to every piece of text described in your website. It is not recommended that you put heavy paragraphs into your website.  Besides the attractive web design you also need to have a good copy your website.

Consider certain recommendations for the content used in the website:

• Don’t use the text which is not possible for a user to grasp the information.
• There are certain parts of your web page which are important to attain the attraction of the visitor. These can be achieved by stronger, highlighted contrast colors, icons, images or large fonts.
• Consider the following diagram which shows the user clicks on special and attractive parts of the web page. Because user don’t use to read full text from top to bottom, they click on the parts randomly they like.

• Just provide the valuable text to the user which is easy to digest. Provide just essentials and remove out the rest.

12. No way to Search

It is not recommended that your website do not have a search button facility for the site visitors.

According to the Jakob Nielsen:

Around about 50 % users on the web are search-dominant and rest are link dominant and a few are mixed dominant in nature. The users which are search-dominant usually do not like to wander into the website, they direct go for a search and get what they want.

So there is a search facility on your website which allow users to search about every single piece on your website.

13. Too much functionality that required Registration

There are many websites which restrict users to avail their website functionality under log in barrier. For example there are a lot of blogs which restrict users to log-in before doing comments. This can decrease the rate of spamming but it also reduces the number of comments on your blog.

So whenever you are applying log-in barrier, keep in mind that you don’t lock the features which are really not required.

14. Old Permalinks become Broken links

Permalink is a link which is not supposed to be changed once created. Usually in the blogs or forums there is a permalink for the posts.

Always note for the links which have become old in your website, and there is not having a link behind the anchor tag. These links are called broken links. This scenario is possible when the domain has been shifted or its linking structure is modified.

You can get error on your webpage which is (301 Error “Page Not Found”). Take care of these links so that it won’t give the bad impression to the search engines or users.

15. Long Registration Form

Registration form is the barrier because it takes too much time to fill out. And once it is filed, user need to remember its id and the password in the future. So on our end we can make our registration forms as short as possible in order to facilitate the user. By doing this we can relax a user in term of a time and effort.

Conclusion:

Usability is all about making the process easier to use. The website should provide all the essentials and rest users only looked into the website for what they want. Most professional web design firms take care of these usability factors so that a less frustration is produced and users feel relaxed.

Attractive social Bookmarking icons increase the probability of visitors clicking which will help you to promote your website. I have gathered 40 eye-catching social bookmarking icons and I hope you will find your desire social bookmarking icons from here to include in your blog.  Also if you are looking for latest web designing trends or website designing tutorials, you can find it here by exploring this blog.

1-6 Free New Social Icons

2-Social iconset in heart shape

3-Socialize icons

4-Web Social icon set

5-Handy icons

6-Social icon pack

7-Crystal Clear Bubble Social Media Icons

8-Social web button

9-Page Peel – A Free Social Media Iconset

10-Wood Social Networking Icons

11-Location: Free Social Media Icon Set

12-Aquatics Social Icons

13-Social Media icons 12

14-New Social icons

15-Glossy Orange Orb Social Media Icons

16-App-Icon EventBox

17-Social Bookmark Sketchy Icons

18-3D Black Button Social Media

19-WHITE MAGIK Social Icon Pack

20-Magic Marker Icons

21-Read Pearl Social Media Icons

22-High Resolution Whitewashed Star Patterned Social Bookmarking Icons

23-154 Clear Bubble Icons

24-Nurture Social Icon Set

25-Heart A Free Social Icon

26-Web 2.origami

27-Dellicream+Dellicake Icons

28-Grunge Style Social Bookmarking Icons

29-Floral Social Icon Set

30-(max)Icone Blog – Set 3

31-Free Hand Color Stroked icon pack

32-Social Bookmarking Iconset

33-webtoolkit4.me’s first icon set

34-Badges Social Bookmarking Icons

35-Social Bookmarking Icons hand drawn

36-Social Bookmark Sketchy Iconset

37-Social Icons Made Of Wood

38-Starry Social media Icons

39-3D social media icon set #1

40- Drink Web 2.0