First thing first, we are going to talk about Parallax effect. If you are not familiar with Parallaxing already, it is a technique to move/animate elements and objects (such as background image) with respect to the mouse position. Rocket science? Just have a look at Nike website and experience cool graphical effects achieved via parallaxing.

Interesting? Let do it on your own website. All you need is Plax, a simple jQuery plugin for parallaxing elements in your site based on mouse position.

Do try it leave a comment to share you experience with us.

If you looking for an instant facelift of your website to make it interesting and a bit more engaging, start playing with background images. For instance, use different quality images in the background and make them change randomly. Done nicely, this would really make your website interesting if not a show stopper. Playing with background slideshow is easy; all you have to do is get Vegas working on your website.

Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds and slideshows to your webpages. Users can easily set up slideshows with different backgrounds, transition effects and callback options.

This full screen background slideshow supports the customized CSS overlay patterns.

jsShare is a minimal social sharing and bookmarking jquery plugin that helps you easily share your contents with popular social media applications like facebook, twitter, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Digg, Delicious and more.

jsShare provides you neat and compact interface to add social sharing and bookmarking functionality to your web pages and applications easily. This social share plugin has a cool fish eye animation effect for social media buttons, which can be turned off by setting value of animate parameter to false.

Awkward Showcase is an all-in-one content slider with all possible options that you might be looking for. It allows you to generate compact image slides for limited space as well as large sliding image show.

It also allow you to generate multiple views (compact viewline, horizontal and vertical thumbnails, full size) of sliding images without having to resize your images manually.

You can also add interactive elements in your slide show with Awkward Showcase by adding images with captions, tool tips, information as well as videos within the slider.

SingleLine Login is an experimental one-liner login control from Greepit Labs. The idea is to provide a creative and simplistic solution for logging in to websites and web applications.

You just type your User ID followed by space and your password in a single line, and then press Enter. No tabs, no toggling between fields and no mouse movements. You just breeze through the login process. This could be very useful when you are logging in via a smart phone or touch-based interfaces like iPad or iPhone.

SingleLine login supports all standard features of a login control including:

• Secure Password Handling
• Integration with any Website/Web Application
• Clean & Simple CSS Customization

One of the most effective methods of engaging visitors on your web page is providing them dynamic and compelling content regularly (we are going to post a separate article on that, stay tuned). RSS is one of those many effective methods of obtaining and displaying dynamic content and PaRSS make it easy to implement.

PaRSS is a jQuery plugin for displaying RSS feed from a given source in user-defined format/style. It uses  a UL or OL element from your style sheet to display content on your HTML page.

PaRSS uses the Google Feed API to parse the feed into JSON data, which it then uses to build the li elements which are added to the page.

RSS items are placed within the span tag and you can use CSS on any of the span elements to style your list.

Mosaic is a jQuery plugin for generating sliding image boxes with comprehensive options for animation, captions and fade effects. With simple parameters, you can set captions, choose to prelaod images and control various properties including: directions, speed, opacity and overlay.

The plugin can be used to create a mosaic of image slides with each slide displaying with different set of hover and overlay effects (eg. left, right, top, bottom); this is useful for locking a caption to a chosen side of the box. The images within the boxes are preloaded for smooth and faster execution of slides.

zClip is a lightweight jQuery copy to clipboard plugin built using the popular Zero Clipboard library. This plugin uses an invisible Adobe Flash movie that is fully compatible with Flash Player 10 and below.

Features

• Avoids built in browser security conflicts by using a 3rd party browser plugin (Adobe Flash)
• Invisible overlay, no interference with page design
• Supplies callback functions for “before copy” and “after copy”
• Extremely light weight! (~7KB minified)

Got a lot of content to manage in a limited browser space? Try Smart Paginator!

Smart Paginator is free jQuery plugin for pagination that you can use to paginate large amounts of data or content without sacrificing your design and user experience. You can integrate SmartPaginator is any web application and style it according to your design scheme. All the navigation logic is built-in to the code and can be modified and controlled with simple parameters.

jTag is a free jQuery plugin that allows you to give a facebook-like image tagging system on your website or blog. It is powerful, easy to implement and costs nothing. If you display images, illustrations or digital graphics on your website, it is time to get rid of static and plain captions. With jTag, you can add more information to your images and offer a more interactive experience to users.

jTag is compatible with all major browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome etc.).