MacLees N. - jQuery for Designers. Beginner’s Guide [2012, PDF/EPUB, ENG] + Code

Preface

Chapter 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
Adding a paragraph
Time for action – adding a new paragraph
Summary

Chapter 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
Adding icons to links
Time for action – creating a list of links
Simple tabs
Time for action – creating simple tabs
Summary

Chapter 3: Making a Better FAQ Page
FAQ page markup
Time for action – setting up the HTML
Time for action – moving around an HTML document
Sprucing up our FAQ page
Time for action – making it fancy
We're almost there!
Time for action – adding some final touches
Summary

Chapter 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
Adding arrow controls
Time for action – adding up and down arrows
Customizing the Scrollbar Style
Time for action – adding our own styles
Smooth scrolling
Time for action – setting up smooth scrolling
Summary

Chapter 5: Creating Custom Tooltips
Simple custom text tooltips
Time for action – simple text tooltips
Customizing qTip's appearance
Time for action – customizing qTips
Custom styles for tooltips
Time for action – writing custom tooltip styles
Enhancing navigation with tooltips
Time for action – building a fancy navigation bar
Showing other content in tooltips
Time for action – building custom Ajax tooltips
Summary

Chapter 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
Vertical fly-out menu
Time for action – creating a vertical fly-out menu
Customizing the navigation menu
:hover and .sfHover
Cascading inherited styles
Vendor prefixes
Time for action – customizing Superfish menus
Custom animation
Time for action – incorporating custom animation
The hoverIntent plugin
Time for action – adding the hoverIntent plugin
Summary

Chapter 7: Navigating Asynchronously
Simple asynchronous navigation
Time for action – setting up a simple website
Time for action – adding Ajax magic
Deluxe asynchronous navigation
Time for action – building deluxe asynchronous navigation
Time for action – using the BBQ plugin
Time for action – highlighting the current page in the Navigation
Time for action – adding a loading animation
Summary

Chapter 8: Showing Content in Lightboxes
Simple photo gallery
Time for action – setting up a simple photo gallery
Customizing Colorbox's behavior
Transition
Time for action – using a custom transition
Fixed size
Time for action – setting a fixed size
innerWidth/innerHeight
InitialWidth/initialHeight
maxWidth/maxHeight
Creating a slideshow
Time for action – creating a slideshow
Fancy login
Time for action – creating a fancy login form
Video player
Time for action – showing a video in a lightbox
One-page web gallery
Time for action – creating a one-page web gallery
Summary

Chapter 9: Creating Slideshows
Planning a slideshow
Simple crossfade slideshow
Time for action – creating a simple crossfade slideshow
Nivo Slider
Time for action – creating a Nivo Slider slideshow
Galleriffic slideshow
Time for action – creating a Galleriffic slideshow
The CrossSlide plugin
Time for action – building a CrossSlide slideshow
Summary

Chapter 10: Featuring Content in Carousels and Sliders
Basic jCarousel
Time for action – creating a basic carousel
Animated news ticker
Time for action – creating an animated news ticker
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
Carousel slideshow
Time for action – creating a thumbnail slideshow
Slideshow
Time for action – adding the slideshow
Next and previous buttons
Time for action – activating the Next and Previous Buttons
Summary

Chapter 11: Creating an Interactive Data Grid
Basic data grid
Time for action – creating a basic data grid
Customizing the data grid
Time for action – customizing the data grid
Summary

Chapter 12: Improving Forms
An HTML5 web form
Time for action – setting up an HTML5 web form
Setting focus
Time for action – setting focus to the first field
Placeholder text
Time for action – adding placeholder text
Validating user entry
Time for action – validating form values on the fly
Improving appearance
Time for action – improving form appearance
Styling the unstylable
Time for action – adding uniform for styling the unstylable
Styles for all
Time for action – styling the styleable
Our own theme
Time for action – creating a custom uniform theme
Summary

Index