Replicate your favorite sites vol. 2: Facebook
Facebook is one of those sites out there that is consistently changing up its site. And whether you like it or not, they always seem to come out with great new features. The rest of us designers and developers are always wondering how they did some of these things though. So in this post I’ve compiled a round-up of some of the ways that you can replicate Facebook.
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Facebook Style jQuery Chat
Facebook Sliders with Mootools
jQuery Autobox 2 (with Autocomplete)
Facebook Application Icons
jQuery Auto Suggestion Search Engine
Facebox – Modal Window
Facebook Ajax Pagination with jQuery
Tipsy – Facebook style tooltips for jQuery
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07-12-09
Cheers! a good collection. Especially like the jquery stuff!
08-19-09
In addition to your post, may you know these stuff :
- Truncate for long comment on the feed : http://blog.jeremymartin.name/2008/02/jtruncate-in-action.html
- Make like the Elastic comment form :
http://www.unwrongest.com/projects/elastic/
- Suggestion-like :
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/06/facebook-like-suggestions-with-jquery.html
- On the same website, a tutorial to make a comment form by post :
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/06/submit-multiple-forms-jquery-ajax.html
- There is an ideal Wordpress theme too :
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/smells-like-facebook
Facebook make a great use of ajax. A use to copy for sure.
08-19-09
@EtienneB: Thanks for the extras!
11-25-09
Great design and facebook icons. Thanks for sharing
12-11-09
Also, have a look at http://www.cometchat.com (it’s from the same author) and its really good.