Lesson 1: What is jQuery?
Posted by in jQueryIn the following tutorial, you’ll learn what jQuery is and see a few nifty examples of use.
Video highlights
[0:32] What the hell is JavaScript?
[0:45] Where JavaScript fits in with HTML and CSS
[1:29] What is jQuery?
[2:33] jQuery in use on Amazon.com
[3:57] jQuery in use on Twitter
[4:50] Other power players that use jQuery
[5:07] Komodo Media‘s foliage-o-meter
[5:46] Subtle nav fade-in/fade-out on Bright Creative
[6:12] Sliding panel from Net Tuts (see the associated tutorial here)
[6:48] Eco Lecom‘s sliding website (built with Coda-Slider)
[7:53] Other great things about jQuery
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Any questions? Let me know in the comments.
Great job. I’m absolutely new to Jquery, and you provide really valuable info for the beginners. Thanks for the tutorials!
Thanks for the comment, Slavik! Glad you’re finding the tutorials useful. Let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like me to cover in future posts.
Thank you for this walk-thru! I really appreciate that you have the highlights with timecode. That helped me skip around to get what I needed – like headers in a post.
Thanks again, Niall