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There comes a point in every website design when you simply want to give the website a little spice to impress the visitor and make it memorable. You want that sexy interaction to capture the user’s attention. In our previous articles, we showed you how to spice up your website

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a rating system with AJAX, PHP, and jQuery. Votes will be recorded and updated in real-time with the magic of AJAX, and we’ll also leverage the power of PHP so that you don’t even need a database!

In this tutorial, you will learn how to take a Photoshop file, and convert it to a valid, jQuery enabled, Pagelime CMS integrated website ready to hand off to your clients with no coding, using Photoshop, SiteGrinder 3 and Pagelime.

Our sister site ThemeForest is jam packed with killer templates and themes, and many of them have some pretty spectacular Javascript and jQuery effects. We’ve compiled a dozen of the best and brightest into today’s roundup to show off what your next website could look like!

I was looking at the features page of a web service called Fluxiom. I haven’t used the product (although it looks pretty nice and might be good few a couple of our clients). It’s the tabs on that page that I thought were pretty neat. As you click a different tab, the three columns of text fly upward at different rates and are replaced by new columns. It looks kinda like a slot machine. I didn’t investigate too deeply how they were doing it, but as I often do, I set about recreating the effect with jQuery.

So you’ve been playing with jQuery for a while now, you’re starting to get the hang of it, and you’re really liking it. Are you ready to take your jQuery knowledge to level 2? Today, I’ll show you 20 functions and features you probably haven’t seen before!

Sometimes you want to insert something into the DOM, but you don’t have any good hooks to do it with; append() or prepend() aren’t going to cut it and you don’t want to add an extra element or id. These two functions might be what you need. They allow you to insert elements into the DOM just before or after another element, so the new element is a sibling of the older one.