7 jQuery Plugins that prove helpful in designing a responsive design for a website
A responsive design for a website is an effective tool to improve the popularity of a website and attract maximum number of visitors and bind them to the attraction of the site. Moreover, it requires expertise to design and eye-catching website.
jQuery proves very helpful to a web designer when one is working to create a highly responsive design to his website. There are many plugins that can be helpful for the purpose, while a few useful plugins are discussed below:
1. Response.js: A jQuery plugin that is able to provide effective tools for creating websites capable of optimizing performance and highly responsive websites for mobile platforms as well. The breakpoint sets in this plugin swap markups dynamically by using HTML5 data attributes in order to serve the rich content very progressive. The API of this plugin includes HTML5 dataset, browser event hooks and various other methods for testing and improving responsive properties of a website.
2. FitText: Fittext is an easy to use plugin of jQuery that automates the process to fit the text of the website perfectly to the parent element of the text. This plugin adds flexibility to the size of the font of the text of the website that it is used with. This plugin can be used effectively for providing scalable headlines to fill out the parent element's width on the responsive and fluidic layouts of the website.
3. jQuery Masonry: This is a dynamic plugin of jQuery that is used to achieve a dynamic layout of grids of a website. This plugin acts as a Flipside to the CSS floats plugin, where floating provides a horizontal arrangement of the elements followed by vertical arrangement but masonry plugin provides a vertical arrangement of the elements. This arrangement places every element in an open slot next to the previous element's place found in the grid.
4. SlabText.js: SlabText is an effective plugin used with jQuery that is capable of splitting the headlines on a web page into different rows that are then resized easily to completely fill the horizontal space available on the webpage. In simple words, this plugin is used for an easy and effective resizing of the font size of the headings in a web page to suit the size of the screen of the device on which the web page is being viewed.
5. TinyNav.js: This plugin proves very effective for websites that contain navigation menus and provide a hassle when used on small screen devices like the iPhone. The TinyNav.js plugin allows an automatic shift of navigation menus of a website into easy to select options to provide an ease while browsing such web pages on small screen Smartphones and other devices.
6.Breakpoint.js: Breakpoint.js is an effective tool to make the responsive website more attractive by responding at various breakpoints when a visitor comes or leaves a breakpoint. This plugin needs a developer to simply define breakpoints and then customize events that you need to fire on the respective activity at breakpoints.
7.ResponsiveSlides. js: Slideshows add a feel of high response of a website when a user visits a particular website having the feature of slide images to be easily viewed. While, fitness of different sizes of an image to the size of the screen on which the website is accessed is a tricky task. This plugin, ResponsiveSlides.js helps you to overcome this issue and provide a great design to your responsive website.
Above mentioned plug-ins have proven to be quite useful in the IT industry. Many web designers have taken the advantages while designing their projects.
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