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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Overview of this book

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript

"Our first step on the ladder"

Yes! As promised in the previous chapters, this time we are going to get some coding done. This will be an interesting change as we will be able to see the results of our own coding. Of course, we are still going to use some libraries. But hey, we don't want to reinvent the wheel just because some of the effects we want to achieve are quite complex.

For now we are going to make all these modifications directly to the template. I think this is the easiest way to start. Later on we will make our own modules and components.

The points we are going to cover in this chapter are:

  • Adding a Parallax effect to our template

  • jQuery library jScrollPane

  • Adding useful tooltips

As always, we seek to make our site more interesting through all these effects and utilities. But this time there's something more—we are also seeking to have a good time modifying our template. Coding can be fun! Don't believe me? Let's start and you'll see...