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Learn how jQuery can make your Web page or blog stand out from the crowd!
jQuery is free, open source software that allows you to extend and customize Joomla!, Drupal, AJAX, and WordPress via plug–ins. Assuming no previous programming experience, Lynn Beighley takes you through the basics of jQuery from the very start.
You′ll discover how the jQuery library separates itself from other JavaScript libraries through its ease of use, compactness, and friendliness if you′re a beginner programmer.
Written in the easy–to–understand style of the For Dummies brand, this book demonstrates how you can add unique and exciting interactivity to a Web site or WordPress blog, including photo browsers, menus, tab–based navigation, sliding sidepanels, slideshows, transition effects, fade effects, Twitter feeds, and much, much more!
- Walks you through the capabilities of jQuery, the number one open source JavaScript library that enables you to provide interactivity on a Web site or blog
- Helps you understand DOM (Document Object Model) scripting, applying CSS classes via JQuery, and adding in special effects and jQuery plug–ins to your site
- Shows you how to create dazzling special effects on your site, including fades, slide shows, sliding panels, tabbed navigation, and more
- Explains how to add customized Twitter feeds, RSS feeds to aggregate content on your site, or add a photo browser to a site or blog
- Introduces ways to create jQuery plug–ins for WordPress, Drupal, and more
If you have queries about how you can make your blog or Web site stand apart from the crowd, jQuery For Dummies is the book for you!
From the Back Cover
You don′t need to be a Web programmer to jazz up your Web site with jQuery!
Want to keep your Web site cutting–edge but don′t want to invest a lot of time? No worries! This book will help you add simple but compelling jQuery effects and cool prebuilt plug–ins to your site — no geekiness required. You can quickly use widgets and AJAX plug–ins, and gain the essential jQuery know–how to achieve great effects fast.
Starting point — find out what jQuery can do, use HTML elements, connect the jQuery library to a Web page, and understand the basics
Make things happen — learn to make page elements appear and disappear, slide, fade, and move
Plug it in — explore the array of available plug–ins, download and test them, and add widgets to your site
Meet Ajax — see how Ajax works with jQuery and how you can give your Web site visitors a richer experience
Manage your content — discover how to use jQuery with Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress content management systems
Open the book and find:
How to acquire and test jQuery
Tips on understanding parent–child elements
Different types of event handlers
Cool things to do with page elements
Effects you can achieve with animation
Ways to make forms easier and more appealing to use
How to add a calendar to a page
Ten terrific plug–ins you′ll want
Learn to:
Build site special effects such as fades, sliding panels, and tabbed navigation
Create a photo gallery for your blog or Web site
Customize Twitter and RSS feeds
Add jQuery plug–ins for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and more
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this is a great book for getting your head around how to integrate jquery with your website. It's written in typically accessible style (as all the dummy's books are). The only slight problem is that the book is quite dated, as several of the key plugin walk throughs are either no longer available or have moved on so significantly that you need to work out how they work on your own. This can actually be quite useful as it forces you to understand the methodology (albeit whilst frustrating you)
Format:Paperback
On almost every page this book wastes half the page with repitition of a screenshot and the text "creat a web page containing the following code:" It them gives you a small snippet of jQuery code to add and then moves on to the next example.
Despite the chapter titles almost every chapter of the book is taken up with details of jQuery plugins. Detail is perhaps the wrong word to use since there is precious little detail, there is no explanation of how to use each plugin just info about what the plugin can do.
Three chapters are taken up showing how to integrate jQuery into Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. Quite how each warranted a whole chapter is quite amazing.
There is also chapters on Ajax plugins and 10 not to be missed jQuery plugins.
In short there is nothing of substance in this book.
Despite the chapter titles almost every chapter of the book is taken up with details of jQuery plugins. Detail is perhaps the wrong word to use since there is precious little detail, there is no explanation of how to use each plugin just info about what the plugin can do.
Three chapters are taken up showing how to integrate jQuery into Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. Quite how each warranted a whole chapter is quite amazing.
There is also chapters on Ajax plugins and 10 not to be missed jQuery plugins.
In short there is nothing of substance in this book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've checked some JQuery books and after a while I've realized what JQuery is for.
With this book, in every chapter, you can inmediately see the power of JQuery; how
can it help you and the posibilities of this tool.
Is a excellent way to start learning JQuery and AJAX.
With this book, in every chapter, you can inmediately see the power of JQuery; how
can it help you and the posibilities of this tool.
Is a excellent way to start learning JQuery and AJAX.
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