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jQuery UI Themes Beginner's Guide

By : Adam Boduch
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jQuery UI Themes Beginner's Guide

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

<p>Web applications today generally use at least some JavaScript to enhance the look and feel of the user interface. The jQuery UI toolkit gives web developers a set of widgets as well as a framework for developing and applying themes.</p> <p><em>jQuery UI Themes: Beginner's Guide</em> is for web developers who want to design professional-looking applications that are resilient to change. It is a step-by-step guide that goes beyond showing how to switch themes in a user interface built with jQuery UI and offers developers a practical guide to designing their own themes and gives them insight as to how themes work.</p> <p><em>jQuery UI Themes Beginner's Guide</em> starts with themes in general and why they're important in web applications today. We gradually move forward, covering jQuery UI basics, eventually aiming for a full understanding of the theme framework. The ThemeRoller application is a powerful tool – allowing developers to easily adjust theme settings. In addition to seeing how the ThemeRoller works, we take a more in-depth look at the CSS framework internals allowing readers to develop the ability to adjust themes in ways the ThemeRoller cannot. This includes everything from special effects to theming custom widgets. There is no limit to what your theme can change.</p> <p>Once you've read this book, you'll no only be well-versed in theming jargon, you'll also be able to take one look at any jQuery UI application and understand why and how it looks the way it does.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
jQuery UI Themes Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Md. Mahmud Ahsan graduated in Computer Science & Engineering from the International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend Certified engineer and has experience of more than six years in LAMP-based web applications development He is an expert in developing APIs and mashup applications in Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Besides his full-time freelance work, he blogs at http://thinkdiff.net and also writes articles in different technologies such as Facebook application development. He lives in Bangladesh with his wife, Jinat.

Currently, he is working as a freelancer, managing and developing social web applications, using technologies such as PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, jQuery, and Mashup APIs. He also leads various small- to medium-level projects.

He is also an Indie iPhone application developer and publishes the applications he develops at http://ithinkdiff.net.

He has worked as a technical reviewer on Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development and PHP jQuery Cookbook by Packt Publishing.

Nick Gajewski is a user interface and Drupal developer. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Originally tinkering with websites during the years of the Internet Explorer and Netscape browser wars, he took a partial hiatus from the world of the Internet to educate the youth of today.

After five years in the education trenches, he was lured back into web development and design through its innovation, creativity, and limitless possibilities. Now, with four years of experience under his belt, he builds front-end and offers Drupal solutions for Enomaly Inc. and freelances under nickgajewski.com.

He enjoys creating websites that are exciting, innovative, and are a pleasure for the users to experience.

Shameemah Kurzawa started programming when she was in high school. Being motivated to be a System Analyst, she pursued both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Business Information System and Software Engineering, respectively.

She has been working as a Web Developer/Analyst for the past five years at a renowned broadcasting company in Australia, SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). Besides work, she enjoys spending her time with family. She is a mother of a little baby boy, aged two. She also enjoys travelling, cooking, as well as reading about new technologies.

Joe Wu is a full-time Senior PHP Web Developer, and has been in the industry since 2005. He has worked on various projects of all sizes, and is familiar with most of the Open-Source technologies surrounding PHP Web Development.

Joe is always enthusiastic about new and upcoming technologies, and is keen to learn and pick up a new skill-set wherever possible and utilize them in his current or future projects. He is also keen on learning about new opportunities and innovative ideas, and believes that the market is always wide open for new and upcoming innovations to improve our ways of living.

Apart from all the technological computer work, Joe is a professional Badminton Player and manages to fit a near full-time training schedule along with his full-time job. Joe's best ranking of 59th in the world in singles and the attendance of Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 means that he has equally as much experience in Badminton and Web Developing.

Apart from all the endeavors, Joe also works for his own company (with his business partner) to put his skills and experience to good use and help anyone who needs assistance with web development.

Wackyinnovation (www.wackyinnovation.com) promotes the concept of always moving forward and coming up with and utilizing new technologies and ideas. Their always enthusiastic and can-do attitude ensures jobs are done to perfection with an innovative edge to their competitors.