Last year we posted a collection of jQuery slider techniques and plugins. In a years time the trend of using these types of sliders or slideshows to display featured content has only grown more popular. This means more sites are using jQuery sliders and more people are coming up with new ways to create them. If you’ve yet to try implementing this on a site, here are 10 more techniques and plugins that will help get you started.
Link: WebDesignLedger
The fact that the web is (supposedly) moving fast coupled with frameworks that tend to hide the reality makes web development for a newcomer difficult. But in reality, it shouldn’t be if you understand the basics. Frameworks are trying to hide what’s going on for you to be able to do web sites in “minutes”. But after a while you realize that frameworks have shortcomings and that you must learn the basics to achieve what you wan to do. Welcome back to square one after wasted time.
Link: Mike Gleason Jr’s Blog
A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you need to know to use it.
Link: jQuery
jQuery UI is a widget and interaction library built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. This guide is designed to get you up to speed on how jQuery UI works.
Link: jQueryUI