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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 – building a CrossSlide slideshow


Follow these steps to set up a CrossSlide slideshow:

  1. To get started, we'll set up a simple HTML document and associated files and folders just like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. The body of the HTML document will contain a container for your slideshow. Inside the container, place any content you'd like to display for users with JavaScript disabled.

    <div id="slideshow">
      <img src="images/600/AguaAzul.jpg" alt="Agua Azul"/>
    </div>

    I'm going to simply show the first photo from the slideshow for users with JavaScript disabled. I've given my container <div> an id of slideshow.

  2. Open styles.css and add some CSS to define the width and height of the slideshow:

    #slideshow  { width:600px;height:400px; }
  3. Next, head over to http://tobia.github.com/CrossSlide/ to get the downloads and documentation for the CrossSlide plugin.

    You'll find the Download minified link near the top of the page. The rest of the page shows several...