Posts in the JavaScript category

• jQuery for Designers

  13 June 2009 by Clive Walker

  jQuery is a very popular JavaScript library that is relatively easy to use. However, if you want to explore jQuery further and really understand how it works, you will need to read the documentation and/or follow a few tutorials.

• Three image slide show scripts using jQuery

  03 February 2009 by Clive Walker

  Clients often ask for an image slide show to ‘jazz up’ their websites. Most often this is because they have seen a similar effect on another website and it is perceived as ‘cool’ to be able to do this. I think you should use these only if they add something to the page but it seems that a slide show is a popular request. As a result, I try and keep a few slide show scripts bookmarked for future usage. Here are three that use the popular jQuery JavaScript library.

• Simply JavaScript reviewed

  24 September 2008 by Clive Walker

  I am reading Simply JavaScript by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams at the moment. It's a beginner-to-intermediate book for anyone who has a good understanding of HTML and CSS but who may need to beef up their JavaScript knowledge. I know most of the key concepts (I think) but I am using the book to reinforce a few things and to expand my JavaScript knowledge.

  Here's my short review of the book…

• Learning Adobe Air

  03 September 2008 by Clive Walker

  I am planning to learn more about [play with] Adobe Air in my spare time over the next few months.

  The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.

  I figure it’s likely to be less of a learning curve than another coding language because you can build an application with HTML, CSS and JavaScript [Ajax] and subsequently use Air to deploy it to the desktop. Adobe Air will ‘package’ everything and create the installation file. Well, there’s a bit more to it than that but you get the idea. The first job is to work out what I need…

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• JavaScript table sorting

  22 June 2007 by Clive Walker

  I know we are not building websites using tables for layout any more (ahem) but tables are still the best way of displaying related data.

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• Jay talks jQuery

  22 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Last night I attended the seventh Sussex Geek Dinner (ably organised by Simon Harriyott once again) where Jay Gooby from Snipperoo gave a presentation about jQuery, which is a newish JavaScript library.

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• jQuery has the answer

  14 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  Recently, we wanted to add a show/hide paragraph effect for older pub reviews on the Horsham Pub Guide. A show/hide effect means that the older reviews are intially hidden when the page loads but they can be revealed by clicking a simple link.