Sprites are widely used on big sites (Yahoo!, Google, Amazon and more) but rarely for “normal” projects. I think this is due to two questions that usually stop us when it comes to learn something new: “how difficult will be to learn this thing?” and “will I even use it?”. Well, I hope to help you with both questions by showing you how easy is to work with sprites/jQuery and how much this would help you to make a difference in your work, for instance by making a nice animated menu like this one:

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