An approachable introduction to web design in jQuery for non-programmers
Natalie MacLees
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Overview of jQuery for Designers: Beginner’s Guide: RAW
- Enhance the user experience of your site by adding useful jQuery features
- Learn the basics of adding impressive jQuery effects and animations even if you've never written a line of JavaScript
- Easy step-by-step approach shows you everything you need to know to get started improving your website with jQuery
This book is currently available as a RAW book. A RAW book is an ebook, and this one is priced at 40% of the usual eBook price. Once you purchase the RAW book, you can immediately download the content of the book so far, and when new chapters become available, you will be notified, and can download the new version of the book. When the book is published, you will receive the full, finished eBook.
If you like, you can preorder the print book at the same time as you purchase the RAW book at a significant discount.
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- Local taxes may apply to your eBook purchase.
Chapter Availability
| Chapter Number | Title | Availability |
| 1 | Saying ‘Hello World!’ with jQuery | IN THE BOOK |
| 2 | Enhancing Links | IN THE BOOK |
| 3 | Making a Better FAQ Page | IN THE BOOK |
| 4 | Building Custom Scrollbars | IN THE BOOK |
| 5 | Creating Custom Tooltips | IN THE BOOK |
| 6 | Building an Interactive Navigation Menu | IN THE BOOK |
| 7 | Navigating Asynchronously | IN THE BOOK |
| 8 | Showing Content in a Lightbox | IN THE BOOK |
| 9 | Creating Slideshows | DECEMBER 2011 |
| 10 | Featuring Content in Carousels and Sliders | DECEMBER 2011 |
| 11 | Creating an Interactive Data Grid | DECEMBER 2011 |
| 12 | Improving Forms | DECEMBER 2011 |
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[ Detailed Information ]
Language : EnglishPaperback : 296 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : February 2012
ISBN : 1849516707
ISBN 13 : 978-1-84951-670-9
Author(s) : Natalie MacLees
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Beginner's Guides, jQuery, Open Source, RAW books, Web Development
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jQuery is awesome for designers – it builds easily on the CSS and HTML you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in programming, JavaScript – on which jQuery is built – can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of jQuery plugins.
jQuery for Designers offers approachable lessons for designers with little or no background in JavaScript. The book begins by introducing the jQuery library and a small and simple introduction to JavaScript. Then you'll step through a few simple tasks to get your feet wet before diving into using plugins to quickly and simply add complex effects with just a few lines of code.
You'll be surprised at how far you can get with JavaScript when you start with the power of the jQuery library and this book will show you how. We'll cover common interface widgets and effects such as tabbed interfaces, custom tooltips, and custom scrollbars. You'll learn how to create an animated navigation menu and how to add simple AJAX effects to enhance your site visitors' experience. Then we'll wrap up with interactive data grids which make sorting and searching data easy.
What you will learn from this book :
- Download and include the jQuery library on your website
- Build browsable photo galleries and animated slideshows, along with carousels and sliders
- Create tabbed interfaces in a few lines of code without a plugin
- Include custom scrollbars that fit the design of your site but are still easy for your site visitors to use
- Use AJAX to only load up the changing content area rather than the whole page
- Enhance the navigation on your site by using animations and custom tooltips
- Enhance web forms to make them easier for your site visitor to use
Approach
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, each chapter focuses on a specific part of your website and how to improve its design with the use of jQuery. There are plenty of screenshots and practical step-by-step instructions making it easy to apply jQuery to your site.
Who this book is written for
This book is for designers who have the basics of HTML and CSS, but want to extend their knowledge by learning to use JavaScript and jQuery.
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