A lot of blogs display a list of their most recent or popular posts in their sidebar, more often than not just showing the title of each one. But how can you give your reader an idea of what that post is about by using the excerpt, without taking up too much room? JQuery is our friend!
The tutorial can be found here:
http://epicalex.com/use-jquery-to-jazz-up-your-list-of-latest-posts-part-1/