An important part of adding jQuery to your website or web application is the use of effects to transition between states or to create a more seamless sense of interaction. We’ve already seen some of the jQuery effects in the previous tutorials, but as a final instalment to the series, I’ll cover the most common [...]
One of the coolest things about jQuery is how easy it is to use Ajax. Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of technologies that allow you to send and receive data from a server asynchronously (without refreshing the page). Ajax is used extensively around the Internet these days, in particularly on Social Networking [...]
Last week we began looking at jQuery Mouse Events and how they can be triggered on certain actions or conditions. Events are an integral part of adding interactivity to your websites using jQuery. This week we will be looking at specifically Form Events and how you can use jQuery to create better forms on your [...]
Manipulating style or content are the building blocks to really being able to do useful stuff with jQuery. However, in reality, you aren’t going to be writing jQuery to manipulate the DOM or the style of your page on load as you would just change the HTML or CSS in the first place. One of [...]
In the Introduction to jQuery post, we scratched the surface of manipulating the style of elements in the DOM. One of the fundamental bits of jQuery is the ability to manipulate the elements of the DOM, not just what they look like. In this second part of our exploration of jQuery, we will be focusing [...]
When you first start learning how to code you will be inundated with terminology that is often hard to understand. I believe one of the reasons why people quit learning how to code is because the learning curve is quite steep, part of which is the terminology. However, once you start to understand the terminology, [...]
jQuery is a Javascript Library that makes working with Javascript on web pages a lot easier. If you’ve created websites in the past, you will know that making a website that looks exactly the same across multiple browsers can be tricky. Writing Javascript is no different, and so something that functions perfectly in one browser, [...]
Making HTML email templates is one of the necessary evils of creating an email marketing campaign. Why is it a necessary evil? Because email development is stuck firmly 10 years in the past! I’ve written previously on creating an automatic Email Marketing Campaign that actually works and the value of email lists, so it only [...]
Control Flow Structures are an important aspect of programming languages that allow your code to take certain actions based on a variety of scenarios. Control Flow is a fundamental concept in programming that allows you to dictate how your code runs under different conditions or until a certain condition is met. I find when I [...]
Javascript Objects are part of the fundamental building blocks of the language and will become invaluable once you start creating more complex Javascript applications. Objects allow us to group common properties and functions together into a single object to allow an application to work with that data all in one place. We’ve already looked at [...]
