Learning Network: Lynda.com - jQuery Projects: Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee

Lynda.com - jQuery Projects: Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee | 312 MB
1h 35m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960x600 30fps 300Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

In jQuery Projects: Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee, author Chris Converse builds a visually rich, interactive marquee in order to aggregate and display content on a web site homepage. This course covers preparing artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator, creating HTML and CSS layouts, and dynamically generating marquee elements with the open-source JavaScript framework jQuery. Tutorials on animating between content panels are also included. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

* Linking the HTML and CSS layouts
* Preparing images with the Slice tool and Smart Objects
* Adding CSS rules for the captions and navigation
* Producing the photo lineup
* Creating the navigation links based on the HTML
* Setting click events for the navigation
* Animating between photos
* Initializing the gallery on page load