Lynda.com - jQuery Projects: Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee
Date: 17 August 2011 | Posted by: pool
Author: Chris Converse | Released: 5/26/2011 | Duration: 01h 34m | Level: Intermediate
In Create an Interactive Homepage Marquee with jQuery and Dreamweaver, 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
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