Adding event handlers to any website is a necessary must; after all, we need some way to respond to legitimate events in our code.
The flip side of this is adding effects – done well, they can be hugely rewarding, although some of the novelty can wear off, particularly if you've used all of the core effects to death! Revitalize your sites with new, custom effects – we'll see how to do this in this chapter, as well as managing the resulting queues. Over the next few pages, we'll cover the following topics:
Revisiting basic effects
Adding callbacks
Constructing custom effects
Creating and managing the effect queue
Intrigued? Let's make a start…