Hi, all! The past couple of days i've been looking through some web logs and found some really unexpected things...
a) Though jQuery-related stuff is only a small part of my website, the vast majority of the recent traffic targets my jQuery plugins pages. (This is not to imply that my plugins are particularly popular (they're not - they're all small/niche stuff).) b) The jQuery.com plugins repo is the most prolific referrer to my site. c) 3 of the top 5 search terms which bring people to the site (via google) are people searching for a jQuery color picker. Another one of those top 5 is someone looking for a color picker in javascript (not explicitly jQuery). My point is: If you write plugins, add them to the jQuery plugins repository. There are lots of good reasons to do so, but one reason which is probably under-considered is that doing so will drive traffic more traffic to your site. Case in point: http://wanderinghorse.net/computing/javascript/jquery/ :)
