A simple portfolio template, with project preview images that slide out to reveal the selected project by using css and jQuery.
A combination of very basic HTML, CSS and a little bit of jQuery you can achieve a pretty nifty, clean expanding tile. Feel free to use this concept to create your own Expanding CSS3/jQuery Panels.
Slide Drawer is a jQuery plugin that allows you to create a sliding drawer with slide out/down/up effects on the anywhere of your page.
The plugin has several settings that allow for the drawer to remain static and just toggle, to go away after a set amount of seconds and the speed at which is moves.
Portamento is a jQuery plugin that makes it simple to add sliding (aka "floating") panel functionality to your web page. All that's needed is some simple CSS and one line of JavaScript, and you're away!
It works fine with floated and absolutely-positioned layouts, in all modern browsers and some not-so-modern ones too.
Kwicks for jQuery is a plugin providing sexy sliding panels with an emphasis on navigational interaction. Kwicks was originally a port of a MooTools effect (of the same name), but has since evolved into a highly configurable and versatile UI component.