When building a coming soon or event page, you find yourself in search for a good way to display the remaining time. A countdown gives the feel of urgency, and combined with an email field will yield more signups for your newsletter.

Tutorialzine has shared a tutorial on Making a jQuery Countdown Timer. It will show the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds to your event, as well as an animated updates on every second.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2011/12/countdown-jquery/
License: License Free