Jquery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide Dan Wellman Author

This book is for web designers and front-end developers who already have a good knowledge of HTML and CSS, and have some experience with jQuery. It has a simple, easy-to-understand, step-by-step style with plenty of examples and images. It first explains how animations make your user interface interactive and attractive then the various methods used to make elements appear or disappear. It provides sets of steps to create simple animations and show fading animations then teaches you to make complex animations by chaining different effects together as well as how to halt a currently running animation. You will learn how to slide your animation elements and how to create custom animations that can be complex and specialized. You will find out how to obtain and set up the jQuery UI, the official user interface library for jQuery. You will learn to animate a page’s background image, and how to make images scroll in a direction and at a speed controlled by the movement of the mouse pointer.