A Webvanta Online Course
jQuery for Designers
Learn to Add Interactivity to Your Pages with jQuery
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$99 fee includes four classes and online help
The modern web is a three-legged-stool: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Without all three legs, your sites are very limited.
jQuery provides a relatively easy way for designers to use plug-ins that encapsulate all the JavaScript required to provide features such as slideshows, calendar widgets, carousels, form validation, tabbed areas, accordions, and more.
By the end of this course, you'll know how to set up all of these features, without needing to become a programmer. We'll teach you just enough JavaScript so you can feel confident installing a wide variety of jQuery plugins, and provide recipes for all the common things you'll want to do.
Schedule
This course meets (online) once a week for one hour, Tuesdays at 1 pm Pacific (4 pm Eastern) on March 13, 20, 27, and April 3. Note: You can still join the course if some of these dates are past; recordings are provided.
Recordings will be posted so you can participate even if you can't make these times.
You'll be invited to join an online group, where the instructors will answer questions and you can meet your fellow students.
Who This Course is For
This class is intended for designers who aren't technically oriented but want to take advantage of the interactive effects available with JavaScript and jQuery.
No JavaScript or jQuery knowledge is assumed, but you should be comfortable with the basics of HTML, CSS, and how web pages work.
Course Outline
Week 1: JavaScript and jQuery Basics
- What is JavaScript, and why do we need it?
- Elementary JavaScript programming.
- What jQuery is, and why it makes our life so much easier.
- Where to put JavaScript in your pages, and how to be "unobtrusive".
- Example: Hide and show.
Week 2: Setting Up Plugins
- The basic approach to using any kind of plugin.
- How to choose the best plugins for your needs.
- Using JavaScript variables and objects to set up plugins.
- Examples: Slideshow, photo gallery, lightbox.
Week 3: Making Forms Work Well
- Form validation with jQuery.
- Well-behaved in-place labels.
- Forms that change based on user choices.
- Using date-picker widgets.
- Example: A complex form.
Week 4: Getting Fancy
- Ajax: Using jQuery to load new content without reloading the page.
- Making things move.
- Using cookies to give your pages memory.
- Examples: Slider, tabs, carousels, and calendars.
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Course Instructors
Christopher Haupt
Michael Slater
All our courses are taught by the leaders and staff of Webvanta.
You can read more about the instructors on our team page.
We spend all day, every day, helping designers deliver better sites.
In addition to being technology experts, we're great communicators and we love to teach.
Want to see examples of how we teach?
- Watch the recordings of our free webinars.
- Check out the Learning Rails podcast and screencast series.
If you aren't satisfied with the course for any reason, let us know before the third lesson and we'll refund your registration fee.
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