http://jqueryfordesigners.com/demo/timvandamme.html

script.js

  $('#content a').each(function () {
    $('<div class="fader" />').css('opacity', 0).prependTo(this);
  }).hover(function () {
    $('img', this).stop().animate({
      marginLeft : 5
    }, 250);
    
    $('.fader', this).stop().animate({
      opacity : 0.15
    });
    
  }, function () {
    $('img', this).stop().animate({
      marginLeft : 10
    }, 250);
    
    $('.fader', this).stop().animate({
      opacity : 0
    });
  }).find('img').css('marginLeft', 10);
  
  $('.navigation').each(function () {
    var $links = $(this).find('a'),
      panelIds = $links.map(function() { return this.hash; }).get().join(","),
      $panels = $(panelIds),
      $panelwrapper = $panels.filter(':first').parent(),
      delay = 500,
      heightOffset = 40; // we could add margin-top + margin-bottom + padding-top + padding-bottom of $panelwrapper
      
    $panels.hide();
    
    $links.click(function () {
      var link = this, 
        $link = $(this);
      
      // ignore if already visible
      if ($link.is('.selected')) {
        return false;
      }
      
      $links.removeClass('selected');
      $link.addClass('selected');
      
      document.title = 'jQuery look: Tim Van Damme - ' + $link.text();
              
      if ($.support.opacity) {
        $panels.stop().animate({opacity: 0 }, delay);
      }
      
      $panelwrapper.stop().animate({
        height: 0
      }, delay, function () {
        var height = $panels.hide().filter(link.hash).css('opacity', 1).show().height() + heightOffset;
        
        $panelwrapper.animate({
          height: height
        }, delay);
      });
    });
    
    $links.filter(window.location.hash ? '[hash=' + window.location.hash + ']' : ':first').click();
  });

style.css

body {
  font-family: "Lucida Grande",Verdana,sans-serif;
  font-size: 11px;
  line-height: 16px;
  padding: 10px;
}

h2 {
  margin-top: 0;
}

#wrapper {
  width: 470px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#content {
  padding: 0 10px;
  background: url(images/content.png) repeat-y;
}

#content ul {
  float: left;
  display: block;
  width: 450px;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background: url(images/networks.png) repeat;
  list-style: none;

}

#content li {
  float: left;
  height: 60px;
  width: 225px;
  position: relative;

}

#content a {
  font-size: 1em;
  color: #666;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 10px 0 5px;
  display: block;
  width: 225px;
  height: 45px;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 2;
}

a img {
  border: 0;
  float: left;
  margin: 0 10px;
}

.fader {
  opacity: 0;
  -moz-opacity: 0;
  filter:alpha(opacity=0);
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 60px;
  background-color: #A4ADB7;
}

a:hover img {
  margin-left: 5px;
}

a strong {
  display: block;
  font-size: 18px;
  color: #000;
}

.clear {
  clear: left;
}

#datacontent {
  padding: 20px 10px;
}

#datacontent ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5px;
  display: block;
  height: 30px;
  background: #DFDFDF;
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;  
  -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
  -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 10px;
}

#datacontent li {
  float: left;
}

#datacontent li a {
  outline: 0;
  display: block;
  background: #DFDFDF;
  color: #666;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 1px 5px;
  margin: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #DFDFDF;
}

#datacontent li a:hover {
  border: 1px solid #D1D1D1;
  background: #D1D1D1;
  color: #000;
  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
}

#datacontent li a.selected {
  background: #AFAFAF;
  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  border: 1px inset #fff;
  color: #fff;
}

#datacontent .panels {
  border: 1px solid #DFDFDF;
  border-top: 0;
  border-bottom: 10px solid #DFDFDF;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px;
  -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
  -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

#datacontent .panelsInner {
  overflow: hidden;
}

#datacontent .panel {
  padding: 20px;
}

timvandamme.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>jQuery look: Tim Van Damme</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<!--[if IE]>
  <style type="text/css" media="screen">
    div,
    li {
    zoom: 1;
    }

  </style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
  <div id="content">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://twitter.com/maxvoltar"><img src="images/twitter.png" /><strong>Twitter</strong> twitter.com/maxvoltar</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/maxvoltar"><img src="images/flickr.png" /><strong>Flickr</strong> flickr.com/photos/maxv&hellip;</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://twitter.com/rem"><img src="images/twitter.png" /><strong>Twitter</strong> twitter.com/rem</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/maxvoltar"><img src="images/flickr.png" /><strong>Flickr</strong> flickr.com/photos/maxv&hellip;</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://twitter.com/jquery"><img src="images/twitter.png" /><strong>Twitter</strong> twitter.com/jquery</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/maxvoltar"><img src="images/flickr.png" /><strong>Flickr</strong> flickr.com/photos/maxv&hellip;</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://twitter.com/jeresig"><img src="images/twitter.png" /><strong>Twitter</strong> twitter.com/jeresig</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/maxvoltar"><img src="images/flickr.png" /><strong>Flickr</strong> flickr.com/photos/maxv&hellip;</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="clear"></div>
  </div>

  <div id="datacontent">
    <ul class="navigation">
      <li><a href="#networks">Networks</a></li>
      <li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="panels">
      <div id="networks" class="panel">
        <h2>Networks</h2>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
      </div>
      <div id="about" class="panel">
        <h2>About</h2>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
      </div>
      <div id="contact" class="panel">
        <h2>Contact</h2>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  
</div>

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</body>
</html>