Another quite fashionable technique is to have an animation that runs in the header of the page when the home page loads. Sometimes the animations run continually on every page of the site; others run once on the home page only.
This technique is an easy and effective way to make your site stand out, and they needn't be complex or heavily apparent animations; a short, subtle animation can be enough to add the WOW! factor.
Earlier in the book, we looked at using cssHooks in conjunction with a pre-written file that makes use of cssHooks, which extends jQuery's css() method to allow an element's background-position style property to be animated. In this example, we'll look at how we can do this manually without the use of the plugin.
Well-written plugins can be an effective and easy solution, but there are times when a plugin adds much more functionality than we actually need, and therefore increases a page's script overhead. It's not often that reinventing the wheel is...