Query nice looking forms

all replace ordinary html forms with better looking ones, but if javascript is off they still see the normal forms.

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jNice

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jForms

http://www.agavegroup.com/?p=35

Roundup of Links about Charater Encoding and Special Characters and Punctuation

Really its typography and really should be noticed by designers.

Rich Punctuation: How To Do It And Why You Should Bother
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/typographic-punctuation-web

The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-web-character-encoding/

This is my favourite, good reference to keep, expecially for macs. Helped me find degree symbols and also fancy quotes, copyright symbol etc etc.
Special characters not on keyboards
http://68kmla.net/wiki/List_of_keyboard_shortcuts

JQuery Scrollers

All of these are amazing but in demos the scrollbars seem to have jerky behaviour when you use it like a normal scrollbar. They look great when easing to and from certain points, but arent as smooth as the browser default scroller when you drag it like a normal scroller. Still, I like that the jscrollpane degrades to a normal scrollbar when people have javascript turned off.

Replaces ugly vertical scrollbars with your own pretty version. Also has easing etc.
http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/jScrollPane/jScrollPane.html

The horizontal version of a fancy scroll bar.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jscrollhorizontalpane

this is another option, a step carousel. buttons step though the pics in the pane. can also have a got to first andlast button to see a sexy eased sliding animation
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/stepcarousel.htm

wow this is pretty extreme- scrolling in both vertical and horizontal. love the bouncy easing example. its very flash like.
http://flesler.webs.com/jQuery.ScrollTo/
Vertical and horizontal again. Can really see the use of this as it is shown in demo being for menus and sub menus, vertical and horizontal planes...
http://flesler.webs.com/jQuery.LocalScroll/#section1

JCarousellite
http://gmarwaha.com/jquery/jcarousellite/index.php#demo
nice bouncing effect-page shows lots of customisations to this plugin... good for simple image galleries... like for a blog or something

JQuery Resource Roundup

http://www.noupe.com/ajax/45-fresh-out-of-the-oven-jquery-plugins.html
Massive. Lots of new goodness and ideas. The site has 3 other similiar articles.

http://blog.webdistortion.com/2008/06/11/pushing-the-boundaries-of-web-design-the-ultimate-user-interface/
Another good roundup of effects, some really nice form field effects examples shown here. Round form fields!

Kickass Webdev Resource Portal: Noupe.com

Looks huge, have to explore it later, lots of new looking stuff

30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes

Keeper of a link at Smashing Magazine for 30 scripts for galleries, lightboxes and slideshows.

Smoothbox - sexy lightbox style gallery

Like lightbox, but very nice transitions and image caption area thats semi transparent.
Image shows demo from the developers site.










Also theres Squeezebox, which has a brilliant jumping out at you effect, the image scales up and it looks really cool.
http://digitarald.de/project/squeezebox/1-1/showcase/images/