This is a guest post from Sean – a multimedia addict with a specialty in Front-End Development. He is the creator of Freshen Up Design, a multimedia design blog dedicated to resources from all realms of digital media. Connect with him on Twitter, or visit the blog.
The battle between HTML5 and Flash has been raging on for the past year or so, with Steve Jobs and his friends at Apple making a strong case for a Flash-less future. And while HTML5 can do some pretty awesome effects, it’s not up to standards yet. Flash has always been buggy, and a lot of users often have Flash disabled for various reasons. Enter jQuery.
jQuery has gotten exponentially better over the years (and it was already awesome to begin with) and it is truly amazing to see people push it to it’s limits and beyond. There are so many websites out there that at first glance you would instantly take for Flash because of the sophistication of the animations.
Here’s a list of 13 websites that are really taking advantage of jQuery’s easy to use API.
1. Cafundo
2. Jacob O’neal
3. Appear
4. Vivo Group
5. Made By Water
6. Alex Buga
7. Jan-Eike Koorman
8. Goodworks Media
9. Novembro
10. Lava Graphics
11. Unowhy
12. Esteban Munoz
13. Digital Puffin
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Arturo September 7, 2010
I think they are great websites but could you please tell me where are those mind blowing jquery effects on each page because for me they are like any other I have seen in many sites!
But it is a good post though! Thank you so much!
savioursix September 7, 2010
The one site, Digital Puffin, has link errors all over it. Not necessarily mind blowing, but a good collection.
Tomas September 7, 2010
Because a site have a simple animation it isn’t mindblowing and comparable with Flash. Flash is more mature, optimized and flexible. Except video HTML5 demos performs quite bad. How about this neareast future?
Doom in Flash – http://www.kongregate.com/games/mike_id/doom-1
Photoshop in Flash – http://pixlr.com
Realtime sound in Flash – http://audiotool.com
3D in Flash – http://alternativaplatform.com/en/demos/bunker/
John Walter September 7, 2010
here’s a very good website jquery
http://www.hundertgrad.de/
Sensitive Designs September 7, 2010
Awesome..
Michael Pehl September 7, 2010
Digital Puffin is poorly coded.
6 XHTML Errors, CSS inside body tags, nothing special with their navigation.
Definitely not a pro.
DigitalPuffin is following DreamweaverClub on twitter, this tells everything to me…
dapas September 8, 2010
great…
Alex Flueras September 8, 2010
Great examples. I like Novembro’s layout.
Jan-Eike Koormann September 8, 2010
hey there… thanks for featuring my website. but my last name is spelled wrong! :-)
its koormanN <- two n
greets from germany!
Rory September 9, 2010
delicious!
Adriano Trenahi September 9, 2010
wow… realy fantastic…
I use Jquery to Increase my portfolio too: http://www.adrianotrenahi.com
thanks for sharing.
Hugs from Brazil :)
Sam September 12, 2010
Yeah lacking any “wow” factor and as people have said some of these sites are just amatures
Yuriy Romadin September 12, 2010
I think jQuery is the most powerfull js framework, that has been invited!
Web Design Showroom September 23, 2010
It will take a lsome time before HTML 5 becomes standard/mainstream. But in the meantime, it is well worth any web design company researching and experimenting so that they don’t get left behind.
Blending both Jquery and HTML 5 will be amazingly powerful. All of these technologies including Flash can work together amazingly well as long as there blended subtly.
webg September 27, 2010
cool, thanks, great article
Ripan October 8, 2010
Awesome, this is a good website of jquery effects – http://www.ripansekhon.co.cc
ideastage November 6, 2010
It’s quite amazing how such a small set of features can be adapted to such a wide variety of effects.
neo tech blog November 18, 2010
fabulous one
megainfo March 1, 2011
this is a good website of jquery effects :
http://www.-dzt-tchat.com
simon June 2, 2011
really like the made by water website, but nothing to do with its amazing jquery, its the design that’s really nice.
Ben White September 19, 2011
The Digital Puffin website still has some HTML errors such as only the bottom half of the previous and next buttons are clickable. It also seems Jan-Eike Koormann’s website isn’t there any more.
There is a good example of a website that uses jquery in a more practical way – http://www.auctionshow.com although it does have a few half-decent animation effects too.
Horacio Duran November 3, 2011
Check http://www.urt-argentina.com.ar.
this site use jquery !
Karl December 8, 2011
Child’s play compared to this (no jQuery, no HTML5): http://www.bug-x.de
Lokesh December 12, 2011
My site also uses jquery with moo tools. Please suggest to improve it.
Saleem Mohammad December 19, 2011
wow… realy excellent work … I like Alex Buga template…..
Ashik January 28, 2012
All the websites are awesome.. the authors hav taken big efforts and yea my favourite is Appear layout !
John February 3, 2012
Nice list.
Here’s one that is being used on a professional manner:
http://www.mantis-tgi.com
Navigating between the pages is very snappy!