Now unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you’ll have come across the absolutely wonderful JQuery Library. We’ve already seen some excellent uses for your website design in recent months, but this is something a little different.
Enhancing user experience
With website database functionality and data management arguably reaching an apparent plateau, it seems now larger emphasis is now placed on user experience (UX). The ability for a user to go onto a website and navigate, view content and complete online forms has been around for many years now, but its now under an eagerly awaited evolution.

Old style date inputting
View some of the widgets available here
Visit the Official JQuery UI Website
The JQuery User interface is built using the JQuery platform and offers a range of commonly used JQuery widgets which are created to from a custom theme of your choice and offer robust and cross browser compatible snippets of code which can be easily integrated into your website design

A Sample of the JQuery UI for date intputting
The interface is broken into the following categories…
- Interactions
- Widgets
- Effects
- Utilities
Design Consistency with Themes
You can match the look and feel of your website or application by creating a custom theme, or by indeed customised the CSS on downloaded files.
Cross Browser Compatibility
Very importantly The JQuery user interface has confirmed compatibility with the following browsers…
- IE 6.0+
- FF 2+
- Safari 3.1+
- Opera 9.0+
- Google Chrome.
To start using the interface please visit the official JQuery UI website.


