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20 Useful jQuery Notification Plugins and Tutorials
Just like jQuery sliders I think jQuery notification plugins have a very crucial potential in enhancing user experience for website visitors. The power of these scripts are oftentimes unnoticed, you see a jQuery notification plugin can be used for providing a timely and appropriate feedback to a visitor e.g. about status, success or failure of the task being carried out – and typically it requires little effort and programming to do so. This way there is a much greater chance that visitors in general will convert, meaning they perform the actions you have lined up for them to make your business a success. Examples of this could be signing up for a newsletter, making a purchase. jQuery notification plugins all have different functions and styles but generally they are all used to provide messages on a web page in a easy to notice way. This could be a small message box added to the top right corner of the page with a error message, a red background color and an icon indicating this is important!
This article will provide you some essential tips for choosing the right jQuery Notification Plugin and a list of the best scripts available right now. If we missed your favorite plugin please share this in a comment to help us improve the article,.
This article will provide you some essential tips for choosing the right jQuery Notification Plugin and a list of the best scripts available right now. If we missed your favorite plugin please share this in a comment to help us improve the article,.
Tips for choosing the right jQuery Notification script
Before deciding on a specific script I would recommend you look through the tips and guidance I have provided below.
- Make sure there are recent updates, support, ratings and comments: We do our best to keep articles like this one up to date there is always a risk that both free and premium jQuery plugins are suddenly not supported any more. Keep in mind that many jQuery plugins (in particular free ones) are created as personal projects and made available as is. For commercial client project there is a potential risk using these.- Know your layout requirements: Some jQuery notification plugins are simple and allow for minimal adjustments to the look and feel of the notification elements, however they may at the same time be simpler to use and more light weight. Other jQuery notification scripts are more flexible and have many properties you can use to make a more tailor made solution. Relevant things to consider could be, control of location on page, colors, graphics, fonts and so on
- User control of notifications: Some notifications may need to appear and go away after e.g. 5 seconds, while others require users to approve they received the message… or simply close it by clicking a [x].
- Know what interaction types you will need and ensure the plugin you choose for notifications are capable of solving all the requirements.
- Animations and transitions: They way a notification plugin add the messages to the page can mean a lot for the user experience and the ability to draw attention. Very popular ways right now is to do this is sliding message bars or boxes down from from the top/bottom or in from the sides. Fading in and out messages can also be cool.
- One or more at the same time: Consider if you will need to have multiple notifications showing up at the same time, and if they will need to have different styling and function. This may be pretty important for the notification plugin you choose.
- Technical stuff: Consider your needs related to how notification elements are inserted into pages e.g. what element they can be dynamically put into (HTML div tags) what option you will have to trigger it/control it (events in other JavaScript programs, timers, page events etc.
If you are new to jQuery and not really aware of the power and diversity it offers in the front end development area you should investigate it a bit further. As an example I will recommend you to explore jQuery infinite scrolling plugins, because they have a great potential to encourage the visitors to read more content of your website as demonstrated by Facebook and Pinterest. Further social media jQuery resources for easy integration of social networks and page flip interfaces for more interesting image and content displays are cool ideas for most websites. For now, here are some of the great plugins that you can use for better notification system on your website. Enjoy!
Now to the jQuery Notification plugins
If you need a notification script for your website look not further… below you should be able to find what you need!
jQuery “growl-like” notification plugin
This plugin provides you with a flexible and lightweight notification system on your website. You can you can call it like this: jQuery.noticeAdd() or jQuery.noticeRemove(). The fact that it is not bound to an HTML object makes this plugin very easy to use. It is callable or removable from any function. For example: it could be initiated as callback from a function or on a success or failure after an Ajax request.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by Tim Bennik jQuery (Free jQuery Plugin)
Owl, Unobtrusive CSS3 Notifications
Alert boxes are obtrusive, ugly and usually just annoying. Not anymore, meet Owl. Owl is a feature-packed jQuery-plugin, yet very easy to use. The notifications are elegant and beautiful, of course unobtrusive and can be presented in a lot of ways.
jQuery Notify
jQuery Notify is easy to implement, fast loading and will improve the usability of your website. It comes pre-loaded with a simple style which is easily modified using basic CSS . For the more advanced user jQuery Notify gives you the option to use up to 4 separate callbacks on each notification item which fire at key points in the invocation process.
Fallr – Simple & Elegant Modal Box jQuery Plugin
Fallr is a general modal box / message window with clean UI to present a notification / confirmation / lightbox / popup / choices / attention / forms / wizard steps / welcome / notice / warning / alert / information / slider / gallery / or whatever dialog you want, in a simple and elegant way.
Notification Center – 4 Notification Types
Notification Center is a jQuery plugin that facilitates the process of creating and managing notifications within an application. The primary features of Notification Center are: 2 themes – Light and Dark; Notification ‘bubbles’ track the number of unread notifications in each category; 4 display types (modal, bar, growl, none); 4 helper types (success, error, warning, notice); Create notifications in Javascript or PHP; Automatically poll the server for new notifications and etc.
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Menu with CSS3 Effects and Notification Bubbles
This Menu with CSS3 Effects and Notification Bubbles has everything you need. The functionality is divided in different parts and that makes it very powerful. The core is a rock solid base for every css menu with unlimited menu levels and a mega menu. The effects are pure CSS but you can use the jQuery plugin for support in older browsers. The menu styles are also pure CSS and there are no images used.
MsgUI
MsgUI is a customizable notification plugin package that allows you to utilize stylish notifications throughout your site. Included in this package are Growl, Bar, and Alert jQuery plugins. MsgUI is currently supported in the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE.
jNotifier
Simple jQuery plugin for display beautiful notifications on your site. Notifications display in stack on site, and have callback, timer for lifetime, close button, show or hide preview picture.
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jQuery notification Plug-in
This plug in supports four types of major notifications (Success, Error, Warning and Information). To change the notification type pass parameter type=”value” to showNotification() function.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by Ravi Tamada (Free jQuery Plugin)
jQuery plugin Easy Notification
There are cases and scenarios when you want to deliver a message to your website users and make sure that they will read it or at least notice it. This jQuery plugin will make that task easy for you. This plugin will create and insert a simple piece of HTML code that contains a message you want to send to your visitors. Visitors have an option of closing notification once they read it. You can control the content and appearance of the notification by adjusting plugin options and CSS.
jNotify, display animated (informations, errors, success) boxes
jNotify can display information boxes in just one line of code. Three kind of boxes are allowed : information, success and failure. The whole box is entirely skinnable with css. For example, you could use it for a mail being successfully sent or a validation error of a form.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by MyjQueryPlugins (Free jQuery Plugin)
noty – A jQuery Notification Plugin
noty is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create alert – success – error – warning – information – b messages as an alternative the standard alert dialog. Each notification is added to a queue. (Optional). The notifications can be positioned at the; top – topLeft – topCenter – topRight – center – centerLeft – centerRight – bottom – bottomLeft – bottomCenter – bottomRight. There are lots of other options in the API to customise the text, animation, speed, buttons and much more. It also has various callbacks for the buttons, opening closing the notifications and queue control.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by Noty (Free jQuery Plugin)
jquery-toastmessage-plugin
jquery-toastmessage-plugin is a JQuery plugin which provides android-like notification messages. It’s a quite nice way to report info or error to the user.
Slide Note For jQuery
A jQuery Plugin that makes it easy to display sliding notifications on your website or in your web application. It offers flexible positioning options, support for Ajax, CSS hooks, and more
FooBar – A jQuery Notification Bar
FooBar is a neat and unobtrusive notification bar that sits at the top of the page that can be used to inform or announce specific info to site visitors. The collapsible bar can be used in unlimited scenarios, including displaying notifications, showing site announcements, product specials, competitions, giveaways, etc. Anything you can think of, really.
Sticky – A super simple notification system for jQuery
Sticky allows you to send such messages with ease, and class. Quickly notify a user of software updates, process completions, or annoy them with registration reminders.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by ThrivingKings (Free jQuery Plugin)
Cool notification messages with CSS3 & jQuery
Notification messages are an important part of the user experience and you can’t afford to omit them. A notification alert message should appear every time the user perform important tasks. In this article, you’ll learn how to create some alert messages with CSS3 and jQuery.
Facebook like Beeper for Alerting Notifications Live
Whenever you are online on Facebook and if there are any notifications then you would have noticed the small blue box on the left bottom alerting you the notification live, this is what Facebook calls as the beeper. This tutorial will teach you how to create such a beeper found on Facebook.
jBar – A jQuery Notification Plugin
jBar is a jQuery Plugin that allows you to integrate notifications in your web site. The behavior is very similar to Twitter’s and Stackoverflow’s notification messages. The plugin is configurable in text color, position (top or bottom) and other properties. This is how you use it: $(element).bar({ message : ‘Your profile customization has been saved!.’
LeValidate
LeValidate gives you ability to validate forms by rules that are very easy to set along with css3 dynamic notification box which you can modify as you like. Plugin is mainly designed to be light and easy to edit for everyone. Package includes necassary files with documentation and couple of examples to understand everything.
16 Useful WordPress Lightbox Plugins
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With a WordPress lightbox plugin it is typically a very simple task to present images, videos and HTML content in a way that draw more attention. Basically, a WordPress lightbox plugin works like any other extension, eg. lightbox jQuery plugin, the only difference is that, in general, they are designed to be installed easily on WordPress websites through the administration panels without having to access the codes and calling the scripts from source code.
In principle, when a lightbox element, a photo for example, on a webpage is clicked, a modal window opens where the enlarged version of the image is shown. At the same time the other parts of the page is faded out. This gives the audience an opportunity to look at the image up close without having to leave the page. Further, when using lightbox modal windows, any other elements of the web page are faded out of focus to drive the attention of the audience to no other than the activated lightbox.
Some of the WordPress lightbox plugins have gallery and portfolio capabilities that allow visitors to browse a set of images from the lightbox control panel.
So here in this article, we are sharing with you a number of lightbox plugins dedicated solely for WordPress sites. You can find here both free and premium offerings up for grabs from different providers. Please share with us your about what you think of this awesome collection. Enjoy!
Lightbox Gallery Manager
Lightbox Gallery Manager is a WordPress plugin that offers an easy way to embed unlimited lightbox galleries on your WordPress site. You can organize your images by category and add single sets or whole categories with a simple shortcode.
HoverAlls
HoverAlls is a unique jQuery animation plugin that allows you to create animation effects quickly –without any knowledge of Javascript or jQuery. With over 40 settings, HoverAlls can create unique animations for nearly any type of effect desired.
Lightbox-2 for WordPress
Lightbox 2 allows you to present images in a slick window, while darkening the rest of the page. It makes your site look professional, and adds very little to page load times. It does not require any browser plugins to work, and works on just about every web browser out there! When a browser doesn’t support javascript, the code fails gracefully.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by Stimuli.Ca (Free Plugin)
Teaser Pop for WordPress
The best way to make your sites Pop in just a few minutes.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
FancyBox for WordPress
Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. Additional configuration optional. You can easily customize almost anything you can think about fancybox: the border, margin, width and color, zoom speed, animation type, close button position, overlay color and opacity and even more advanced option like several options to group images into galleries, and more.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Social Gallery WordPress Photo Viewer Plugin
Social Gallery is a WordPress plugin that adds Facebook-style image viewing to your blog! Social Gallery Plugin is a fantastic new way to engage visitors to your WordPress blog by adding the ultimate lightbox which features social media buttons (Facebook like, Facebook Send, Pinterests ‘Pin it’, Twitters ‘Tweet This’) as well as Facebook or Disqus Comments!
Shutter Reloaded
Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
The Wall – Media Gallery – WordPress Plugin
“The Wall” is the ultimate interactive media gallery for your site presentation. It features neat effects for your presentations; powered by cross-browser JS library jQuery; works with all media, not only images- inline content, videos, audios, divs with text -all are supported. It also has a lightbox support.
Thumbnail Gallery (WordPress Plugin)
This Plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.
Thumbnail Gallery (WP NextGEN Gallery Template)
This NextGEN Template will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones).
Justified Image Grid – Premium WordPress Gallery
This WordPress jQuery plugin aligns your thumbnails into a justified and responsive grid. Flickr and Google+ both featured images like this. This plugin behaves similarly. Let WordPress present your galleries in an eye-catching unique new way! It can replace the standard WP as [justified_image_grid] with lots of new features and options. Now you can load images directly from Facebook albums as well! You have the control over every aspect: appearance, on the fly desaturation, color overlays, captions with details, lightboxes, animation.
PhotoShow for WordPress
PhotoShow is a plugin for WordPress and jQuery that makes it easy to add elegant style to a WordPress photo gallery with with a simple shortcode ([photoshow]).
WordPress jQuery Lightbox Plugin
This jQuery lightbox plugin is a freebie written by Benjamin Lupton. It works perfectly with WordPress 2.2 or up, and is fully compatible with K2!
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Lightbox Plus
Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows, videos and content all in an overlay.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
Lightbox Evolution for WordPress
Lightbox Evolution is a tool for displaying images, html content, maps, and videos in a “lightbox” style that floats overtop of web page. Using Lightbox Evolution, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by CodeCanyon (Premium Plugin)
Pinterest Lightbox
The Pinterest Lightbox plugin enables a PinIt Button on each image automatically through your NextGEN Gallery. It automatically uses the caption, image URL, and page URL from NextGEN to sync with the Pinterest API. This plugin is very useful for photo-intensive websites.
MORE INFO | DEMO – by WordPress.Org (Free Plugin)
New Tumblr Themes: Free and Premium Solutions
Launched in 2007, Tumblr’s success journey as a micro blogging site started with its entry into Obama’s Top 5 Tech Tools in PC World. Users visit this platform to share audio, video, texts, links, images, and quotes on their Tumblr space or Tumblelog. Tumblelog is a short form for Tumblr blog. On this micro blogging site, you can keep your Tumblelog private or share it with your group by following other users. Usually, tumblr themes are preferred for their simple and elegant features that enable you to post short blogs against the backdrop of beautiful designs.
There are many users who think Tumblr is the best tool available to them. Why? The reason is it allows you to choose from a wide range of both free and premium themes for your Tumblelog. Unlike other blogging or micro blogging sites, Tumblr’s collection of paid as well as free themes is quite interesting. You can browse through both the categories to get an ideal theme for your blogging space.
Free Tumblr Themes
If you want to enjoy free themes, the choices are immensely wide. These include Stationery, Ancient Page, Luxury Notes, Boundless, The Traveler, Chalkdust, Effector Theme, Panda Classics Recycled, Glacial Simplicity and Spring. All these themes can be used for free and can make a good difference to your blogging experience on Tumblr.
Aside from them, some other free themes which are also worth browsing comprise Organ, Royal Cameleon, Royal Ribbon, Art She Said, Grunge Era, Dark Things, Solstice, Pink Touch 2, Inkhorn and Native Citizens.
Elegant designs and easy navigation are the two strong points of these themes. However if you feel you need something extra, take a look at the premium collection for a rich blogging experience.
Elegant designs and easy navigation are the two strong points of these themes. However if you feel you need something extra, take a look at the premium collection for a rich blogging experience.
The Stitch
go CRAZY!
Sam’s Theme
Effector Theme
Miss Sourpuss
Stacky Pro
Boston Polaroid
Premium Tumblr Themes
Premium theme collection can give a professional look and feel to your blogging space. The choices are many. You just have to pick the right one that suits the concepts and ideas of your blog. For instance, if you want your blog to have the feel of a magazine, you can probably go with its Squared Magazine theme. The theme offers you space for latest posts, comments, widgets, related posts, social network sharing and so on.
If you want a hi-tech look and feel for your blog, Essentia is good. Loaded with several customization options, the theme is much known for allowing its user to upload his or her chosen background and see it getting scrolled automatically. It also offers the choice of additional backgrounds and the PSD file.
You can also take a look at Elegantem. This theme is very useful if you need any kind of help with social media services. In this theme, you can see a great combination of design and function. Its ability to provide you with the choice of customizing layout and highlighting latest entry options make it worth trying.
The other interesting Tumblr themes are Pop Gallery and Forma. Pop Gallery theme helps you create visual portfolios and galleries through thumbnails showing categories for new, reserved and sold products. Forma, on the other hand, emphasizes mainly on the content and gives complete control to the user over its themes.
Another theme that can make an interesting choice too includes Timeline. Here, you can see your blog posts as timelines. It’s easy and fun. If you need something very simple and clean with minimal features, then you can look for Nuance.Other than these, you can also check themes like POPCASE, Pixelated, Shift, Focus, Pandemonium Magazine, Cream, Litefolio and plenty of others.
The choices under both the free and premium categories are amazing. You just have to decide which one you want for your blogging space.
Mason – A Masonry Inspired Tumblr Theme
Tumblair
Glide Responsive Tumblr Theme
Neat Tumblr Theme
SimpliciTheme: Blog Template for Tumblr
Timeline tumblr theme
Pop Gallery Tumblr Theme
Focus – A Minimalistic Tumblr Theme
POPCASE
Pandemonium Magazine – Tumblr
Domericano – Minimal Tumblr Blog / Portfolio Theme
Squared Magazine – Tumblr News / Magazine Theme
Cleanfolio – A Clean Tumblr Portfolio Theme
