jQuery, a micro JavaScript framework with a lightweight footprint as well, is loved by developers of the generation. It provides scalability for developers by introducing plugin development. Thousands of jQuery plugins overwhelm the web, of which I have selected a few to introduce in this article. Hope these will help you build better web.

1 ) wijmo

wijmo is a collection of awesome jQuery UI Plugins, which are enough to make impressions on users mind, a must check.

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2 ) jQuery Cycle Plugin

The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.

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3 ) zLayer

zLayers is a jQuery plugin that allows you to orientate an element based on the position of your mouse to the page’s window, or element’s parent.

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4 ) jQTouch

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices

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5 ) jQuery Face Detection

An excellent plugin which detects face from photo, almost like Facebook Tagging.

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6 ) MOUSE OVER ANIMATION FOR TEXT MOATEXT

You can use this jQuery plugin for adding flavor to your web site. By this plugin, text messages on your site are animated on mouse over. jQuery animate function is called for each character of text. You can see very interesting effects so many characters animate at the same time.

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7 ) FULL 3D JQUERY AND FLASH COMBO CAROUSEL

It will turn an list of images into a full 3D carousel based on the dimensions of the div surrounding the list. jQuery plugin takes the list and embeds the images from the HTML into a dynamically rendered Flash SWF file. Employs Flash 10 for the rendering in full 3D.

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8 ) ANIMATION SLIDER ROTATION

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 webpage.

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9 ) POPULAR-ON-TWITTER WIDGET

Another Topsy-enabled jQuery plugin to list the most popular posts on your website, from your Twitter timeline or for some keyword within a selected period of time. Links are displayed with number of tweets and score -which is calculated by the influence of the people talking about them and affects on sorting those links.

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10 ) zWeatherFeed – Yahoo! Weather Plugin

This plugin will read the current weather for a location using Yahoo! Weather. It produces structured HTML with in-built CSS classes for styling. Simple and easy to use.

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Articles by Usman