I’ve setup a special favorites folder for holding jQuery resources I have found, trying to choose my first project. Here’s the list of what I have so that you can do a little investigation, too.

1. SharePoint jQuery: Scrolling View with Frozen Header
2. jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program
3. Nine Techniques for CSS Image Replacement
4. SharePoint jQuery: Setting View Column Width
5. The best of the best jQuery resources #1
6. “Outside the Box” Navigation with jQuery
7. 13 Super Useful jQuery Content Slider Scripts and Tutorials

At SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach this morning, I saw Chad Schroeder use jQuery and CSS to completely remove the quick launch bar from visibility on the page, leave a vertical button, that if moused over, would have the quick launch fly in. It saved all of the real estate that the quick launch typically consumes, but still made it available if people wanted to use it. Fun stuff. Keep an eye on the SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach site. Susan Lennon will be posting the slide deck.

Ok, enough with the research. I’m going to choose a project from one of these articles and implement it in SharePoint over the next week. You can influence my choice if there’s something that looks really useful to you. Otherwise, I’d going probably do something cool with navigation items.

This article is part of a series as I document my processes of discovery for creating jQuery solutions in SharePoint. To view the entire series, click the link at the bottom of this article to view all of the articles in the series. — Mark