Were there times when you visit a website and wonder how they can come up with their navigation bars, image sliders and other elaborate effects on their design? When I visited a site of translation company recently, I was amazed their website’s design – specifically at how those windows literally open whenever I hover over them. I thought how cool it would be to incorporate such feature on my future designs.
Turned out, the site was using JQuery. It is a free, open source software licensed under GNU General Public License and MIT License. It is actually a cross-browser javascript library intended to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. Just like WordPress (a free and open source blogging tool), users have the right to use, copy, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.
Learning JQuery will be like learning a new language but it’s worth it because it’s syntax is designed to make it easier to navigate documents, select DOM elements, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications – among other things. Care to join me in this new challenge?
