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jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide

By : Natalie Maclees
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jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide

By: Natalie Maclees

Overview of this book

jQuery is awesome for designers ñ it builds easily on the CSS and HTML you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in programming, JavaScript ñ on which jQuery is built ñ can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of jQuery plugins.jQuery for Designers offers approachable lessons for designers with little or no background in JavaScript. The book begins by introducing the jQuery library and a small and simple introduction to JavaScript. Then you'll step through a few simple tasks to get your feet wet before diving into using plugins to quickly and simply add complex effects with just a few lines of code.You'll be surprised at how far you can get with JavaScript when you start with the power of the jQuery library and this book will show you how. We'll cover common interface widgets and effects such as tabbed interfaces, custom tooltips, and custom scrollbars. You'll learn how to create an animated navigation menu and how to add simple AJAX effects to enhance your site visitors' experience. Then we'll wrap up with interactive data grids which make sorting and searching data easy.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a one-page web gallery


Follow these steps to create a one-page web gallery:

  1. We'll get started by setting up a basic HTML file and associated files and folders, just like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Inside the body of our HTML document, we'll create a list of links to the sites we want to include in our design gallery:

    <h3>One-Page Web Design Gallery</h3>
    <ul>
           <li><a href="http://packtpub.com" rel="gallery">Packt Publishing</a></li>
           <li><a href="http://nataliemac.com" rel="gallery">NatalieMac</a></li>
           <li><a href="http://google.com" rel="gallery">Google</a></li>
    </ul>

    Note that I've added a rel attribute equal to gallery to each link.

  2. Now, just as with the other Colorbox examples, choose a style and attach the stylesheet in the header of the document, make all the necessary images available to your page, update the path to the images in...