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Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques
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- For web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs
- For developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications.
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Table of Contents
Language English
Paperback 380 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
July 2007
ISBN 1847192505
ISBN 13 978-1-847192-50-9
Author(s)
Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
Topics and Technologies
Open Source, AJAX, Web Development, jQuery
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jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, www.LearningjQuery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine.
For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page.This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages - even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled.
For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.
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Stop scratching your head, and start improving your web applications with jQuery and JavaScript!
Read the full Table of Contents for Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques
- Use selectors to get anything you want from a page
- Make things happen on your page with events
- Add flair to your actions with animation effects
- Change your page on command with DOM manipulation
- Use AJAX to make your site buzzword compliant!
- Transform drab, static information containers into beautiful, dynamic tables
- Breathe new life into online forms
- Create dynamic shufflers, rotators, and galleries
- Get started with three official jQuery plug-ins, and even write your own
This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions.
This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications.
The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.
Jonathan Chaffer
Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.
In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference.
Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.
Karl Swedberg
Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"—semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.
Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.
Karl's other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.
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