jQuery library is quite popular among developers & designers. These 10 plugins can be used widely for any kind of development work in any generic website development.

Virtual jQuery Keyboard – Very useful for typing password in various public places, can be used for websites where requires secure virtual keywords for passwords. You can download full source codes & read the @ Design Shack site.

jQuery 3 State Switch Plugin -  Useful for sites which requires to show some specific selection & some states of list item using radio button & checkbox at the same time.

jQuery Tooltip -can be used  to show any kind of tooltips in websites & web applications. The code is really simple & it adds tooltips without any hassle.

ColorPicker – is a jQuery plugin that let you select color in the same way done in Adobe Photoshop.

Date Range Picker – this allows allows you to set the date range without using the keyboard. Uses jQuery UI.latest & Date.js integration for easy preset development.

Sliding-Sliding Doors - allows you to show animated menu with beautiful sliding door visual effect.

Word Counter – Easy but useful code to show wordcount in a text area. great for using on any website allowing comments from users.

jQuery quickSearch – allows you to do search in a table. See examples here & you can find more details about it @ riklomas

Text-shadow in IE with jQuery – this code is written by Kilian Valkhof  in one of his posts where he explains how to create shadows for text with jQuery in Internet Explorer. The plugin offers two functions: textShadow(); and removeTextShadow()

Facebox – is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. Requires jQuery 1.2.1. & also you will require loading image, close label, four corners, and solid border images in addition to the javascript and css files.

note : post inspired by ajaxline which is a great resource for developers.

Ecommerce applications are the best developers resources for setting up any kind of online shopping website to sell products & services. Open Source shopping carts are one of the best choices for the coders who want to get something to work with ease & less of efforts.

These are some of the best open-source e-commerce commonly used.

osCommerce -  It’s one of the oldest shopping cart .apps to be used. Completely multilingual, compatible with PHP 4 versions. It is SEO friendly & supports almost all payment methods.

Magento – This is very popular nowadays. Multilingual, supports local languages, multiple currencies. SEO friendly, has lot of marketing & promotional tools & can supports lot of payment gateways.

Zencart – It can be very easily installed & customized. Though it does not support many payment options as osCommerce, but serves quite well for physical product sites & file download sites.

PrestaShop – Very sleek interface & creating special deals as gift coupons, discounts, tag products, selling virtual goods and service is a breeze.

VirtueMart – This is a system for Mambo and Joomla. It hardly takes any time to integrate with Joomla. It has lot of features for people in terms of stock market to instant currency conversion.

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