This weekend I got the idea to make a simple jQuery plugin of my own. (What is jQuery?)  I’ve used a number of plugins with great success, and decided that the best way to learn more about jQuery and give something back to the community would be to develop a plugin of my own. So I sat down, worked out my goal plugin, coded and tested it. It’s not going to change the world overnight, but it might be useful to some folks who like interesting interactions. I’ll try it out here, too, and see if it’s got any real promise.

I call it Sliding Doors – it takes an ordinary image on a web page and adds some interaction. When your mouse moves over the image, it slides open like the doors on a supermarket to reveal the “alt” text, which describes the image in the code of the page. You can see a demo and download the plugin here on the slidingDoors Plugin page.