From the course: jQuery for Web Designers
Welcome
- Hi, I'm Joe Chellman, and welcome to jQuery for web designers. JavaScript is an essential tool in modern web design allowing us to create richer, more usable, and just plain better sites. jQuery is a library of JavaScript functions that makes working with the language a lot easier. In this course, we'll work through some small but useful projects to get you started on the road to jQuery mastery. First, I'll introduce you to the basics of installing and working with jQuery, and where to find help as you start writing your code. I'll go through some of the essential concepts that make working with jQuery different from JavaScript alone, and some of the general approaches we can take when using it. Then I'll show you how to add jQuery to an existing page and how you can use it to finish the same tasks more quickly. We'll look at how to install and use a plugin, as well as strategies for finding out which options you can change to make the plugin work exactly how you want it to. Next we'll look at animation with jQuery, how it relates to animation with just CSS, and then how to use animation to enhance a shopping cart with nice visual feedback. jQuery is hugely popular, and very useful. By leveraging the available plugins, and the power of the core library itself, you'll find there's little you can't do. All right, let's get rolling.
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