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jQuery for Designers
EARLY ACCESS EDITION

Remy Sharp

MEAP Began: October 2009
Softbound print: Fall 2010 | 275 pages
ISBN: 9781935182221

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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources

Table of Contents         Resources 
 1. Start using jQuery without knowing anything! - FREE
 2. jQuery & Progressive Enhancement: A perfect match - AVAILABLE
 3. Tools of the trade
 4. Show & hide on steroids - AVAILABLE
 5. Upgrading the browser with jQuery - AVAILABLE
 6. Content swapping
 7. Communicating with the user
 8. Using overflows
 9. Using Ajax to add flavor
10. Popular utility jQuery plugins
11. Tips to take your jQuery further
 

DESCRIPTION

Using JavaScript and the jQuery library, a skilled developer can make a web app do almost anything—but what if you aren't a developer? jQuery for Designers, a practical guide written especially for front-end web designers, shows you how far you can go with the JavaScript and CSS you already know, some creative ideas, and a little jQuery magic.

jQuery for Designers teaches you to create amazing web applications without drowning in code. It takes designs and features from interesting web sites and shows you how to build them using jQuery. Author Remy Sharp, host of the popular "jQuery for Designers" blog, explains every step in clear detail, making no assumptions of your prior knowledge.

This book is more than just a hands-on jQuery tutorial. It's a cookbook showing how common problems can be solved using jQuery. It guides you through numerous examples, and teaches you how to approach each one so that you'll recognize similar patterns in other web sites.

You'll learn how to:

About the Author

Remy Sharp is a jQuery team member with 10 years web development experience. He's a developer, speaker, author, and blogger, and he runs a UK based development company called Left Logic.

About the Early Access Version

This Early Access version of jQuery for Designers enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online

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