jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide. An approachable introduction to web design in jQuery for non-programmers with this book and

jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide. An approachable introduction to web design in jQuery for non-programmers with this book and - Opis

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. Spis treści:
jQuery for Designers Beginners Guide
Table of Contents
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz heading
Have a go hero heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Designer, Meet jQuery
What is jQuery?
Why is jQuery awesome for designers?
Uses CSS selectors you already know
Uses HTML markup you already know
Impressive effects in just a few lines of code
Huge plugin library available
Great community support
JavaScript basics
Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
Gotta keep 'em separated
Content
Presentation
Behavior
Designer, meet JavaScript
Variables
Objects
Functions
Downloading jQuery and getting set up
Time for action downloading and attaching jQuery
Another option for using jQuery
Your first jQuery script
Time for action getting ready for jQuery
What just happened?
Adding a paragraph
Time for action adding a new paragraph
What just happened?
Summary
2. Enhancing Links
Opening links in a new window
Why not just use the target attribute?
Time for action opening a link in a new window
What just happened?
Adding icons to links
Time for action creating a list of links
What just happened?
Simple tabs
Time for action creating simple tabs
What just happened?
Summary
3. Making a Better FAQ Page
FAQ page markup
Time for action setting up the HTML
What just happened?
Time for action moving around an HTML document
What just happened?
Sprucing up our FAQ page
Time for action making it fancy
What just happened?
We're almost there!
Time for action adding some final touches
What just happened?
Summary
4. Building Custom Scrollbars
Designer, meet plugins
Choosing a plugin
Setting up some scrollable HTML
Time for action scrollable HTML
Adding custom scrollbars
Time for action simple custom scrollbars
What just happened?
Adding arrow controls
Time for action adding up and down arrows
What just happened?
Customizing the Scrollbar Style
Time for action adding our own styles
What just happened?
Have a go hero style the scrollbars the way you want
Smooth scrolling
Time for action setting up smooth scrolling
What just happened?
Summary
5. Creating Custom Tooltips
Simple custom text tooltips
Time for action simple text tooltips
What just happened?
Customizing qTip's appearance
Time for action customizing qTips
What just happened?
Custom styles for tooltips
Time for action writing custom tooltip styles
What just happened?
Have a go hero create a tooltip of your own design
Enhancing navigation with tooltips
Time for action building a fancy navigation bar
What just happened?
Showing other content in tooltips
Time for action building custom Ajax tooltips
Summary
6. Building an Interactive Navigation Menu
Horizontal drop-down menu
Time for action creating a horizontal drop-down menu
Time for action improving the drop-down menu with jQuery
What just happened?
Vertical fly-out menu
Time for action creating a vertical fly-out menu
What just happened?
Customizing the navigation menu
:hover and .sfHover
Cascading inherited styles
Vendor prefixes
Time for action customizing Superfish menus
What just happened?
Custom animation
Time for action incorporating custom animation
What just happened?
The hoverIntent plugin
Time for action adding the hoverIntent plugin
Have a go hero set your own speed
Summary
7. Navigating Asynchronously
Simple asynchronous navigation
Time for action setting up a simple website
What just happened?
Time for action adding Ajax magic
What just happened?
Deluxe asynchronous navigation
Time for action building deluxe asynchronous navigation
What just happened?
Time for action using the BBQ plugin
What just happened?
Time for action highlighting the current page in the Navigation
What just happened?
Time for action adding a loading animation
What just happened?
Summary
8. Showing Content in Lightboxes
Simple photo gallery
Time for action setting up a simple photo gallery
What just happened?
Customizing Colorbox's behavior
Transition
Time for action using a custom transition
What just happened?
Fixed size
Time for action setting a fixed size
What just happened?
innerWidth/innerHeight
InitialWidth/initialHeight
maxWidth/maxHeight
Creating a slideshow
Time for action creating a slideshow
What just happened?
Fancy login
Time for action creating a fancy login form
What just happened?
Video player
Time for action showing a video in a lightbox
What just happened?
One-page web gallery
Time for action creating a one-page web gallery
What just happened?
Summary
9. Creating Slideshows
Planning a slideshow
Simple crossfade slideshow
Time for action creating a simple crossfade slideshow
What just happened?
Nivo Slider
Time for action creating a Nivo Slider slideshow
What just happened?
Have a go hero customize the slideshow
Galleriffic slideshow
Time for action creating a Galleriffic slideshow
What just happened?
The CrossSlide plugin
Time for action building a CrossSlide slideshow
What just happened?
Summary
10. Featuring Content in Carousels and Sliders
Basic jCarousel
Time for action creating a basic carousel
What just happened?
Animated news ticker
Time for action creating an animated news ticker
What just happened?
Have a go hero design your own carousel
Featured content slider
Time for action creating a featured content slider
Pagination controls
Time for action adding pagination controls
Next and previous buttons
Time for action adding next and previous buttons
What just happened?
Carousel slideshow
Time for action creating a thumbnail slideshow
What just happened?
Slideshow
Time for action adding the slideshow
What just happened?
Next and previous buttons
Time for action activating the Next and Previous Buttons
What just happened?
Summary
11. Creating an Interactive Data Grid
Basic data grid
Time for action creating a basic data grid
What just happened?
Customizing the data grid
Time for action customizing the data grid
What just happened?
Summary
12. Improving Forms
An HTML5 web form
Time for action setting up an HTML5 web form
What just happened?
Setting focus
Time for action setting focus to the first field
What just happened?
Placeholder text
Time for action adding placeholder text
What just happened?
Validating user entry
Time for action validating form values on the fly
What just happened?
Improving appearance
Time for action improving form appearance
What just happened?
Styling the unstylable
Time for action adding uniform for styling the unstylable
Styles for all
Time for action styling the styleable
What just happened?
Our own theme
Time for action creating a custom uniform theme
What just happened?
Summary
Index O autorze: Natalie MacLees is a frontend web developer and UI designer, and the founder and principal of the interactive agency Purple Pen Productions. She founded and runs the jQuery LA users' group and together with Noel Saw, she heads the Southern California WordPress user's group, organizing WordPress meetups, help sessions, and workshops. She was the lead organizer for WordCamp Los Angeles 2013 and 2014 and organized the first annual Website Weekend LA. She's also the founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Girl Develop It, bringing affordable and accessible coding classes to the community. She makes periodic appearances on the WPwatercooler podcast and co-hosts the WP Unicorn Project podcast with Suzette Franck. She makes her online home at nataliemac.com. Her obsession with the Web began when she bought her first computer in 1996 and promptly used it to build her first website. She spends the few moments she manages to be offline each day watching baseball, crafting, reading, baking, belly dancing, collecting Hello Kitty items, and avoiding avocados and olives at all costs. mniej