i’m talking ajax. i’m talking jquery. i’m talking mootools. these are a lot of the tools that i really plan to develop on in my last quarter at school. i’m going to be mixing in these advanced libraries with php, mysql and css. this is where i get to show you what real development is all about.
for most of you who don’t know what jquery or mootools is capable of and what it’s used for, this video will get you up to speed. these tutorials will also get you up to speed with mootools.
i would describe these types of libraries as a way to animate the css on your page. clicking a link can set a certain div id from one width to another. or you can animate a scroll from one anchor tag to another, horizontally or vertically. or you can animate pretty much any other css element you can think of.
i think i will try to develop a “rate-my-design” type of project. something simple that allows you to register a user, upload a design and post up a simple note/message on a person’s design (like how flickr lets you post notes on photos). just think of it as being something like posting constructive criticism/critiques on someone else’s design. i will be using the whole “modular” process, using plenty of includes to allow for clean code. the ajax and jquery comes in when i need a nice little animation for “registering” and “uploading” messages to the database, as well as sliding in a nice little post form or an admin panel.
i will definitely try to document as much of my progress as i can. i’m not sure how well my syntax highlighter on this blog will support the functions in jquery and mootools, but it should recognize most of the javascript keywords already.
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