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Books are great for getting started with a new area because they typically cover it well and start gently introducing the basics. If you are just starting up trying to learn JavaScript this post is just what you’re looking for as it list 10 really good books that will get you started well. The JavaScript books are sorted by difficulty, easy to hard, to help you pick the right books at the right time. Reading books online or as a PDF have become very popular and while it may not be as convenient as having a paperback (unless you have a ebook reader like Kindle) it is quite easy to find stuff because you can simply search it. Some of the books are available as ebooks if that is what you prefer.

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Having full control of elements on a page and the order they are presented in can be quite useful. jQuery as always is a safe choice to go for. There are several good quality plugins to pick from. This post provides an overview of plugins you can use to provide simple yet powerful functionality to reorder, filter, add drag and drop capabilities etc.

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Call to action is a term used for elements in a web page that basically request an action from the user. Typically a press on a web page button indicates that a user is making a decision of some kind and buttons are one of the most important building blocks we have to implement call to action. Buttons are for that reason very important elements and they need to be well integrated with the overall design, easy to spot and use. Styling of buttons is typically achieved using CSS and graphic elements but there are a few other techniques available as well. Generally styling html form elements is difficult and is one of the areas where cross browser compatibility may still be an issues when trying to create a design that looks the same no matter what browser is used. This article first cover the basics of using submit buttons on web pages and then dig into more advanced techniques for applying enhancements to buttons to increase how well they "call-to-action" for your visitor.

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jQuery is amazing and you can find plugins to address nearly any need a front end developer may have. This post cover jQuery Plugins to create Stunning Image Zoom Effects on your site or blog. This is very useful if you have large images that will otherwise take up too much space.

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In this article you will get access to one of the largest collections ever of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc. It builds on previous CSS posts in tripwire magazine with the purpose of creating a one stop fit all CSS resource. Several new resources have been added.

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There are plenty of plugins for jQuery addressing nearly any front end need you can think of. The apparent abundance of plugins available on the other hand does not stop creative and skilled developers from creating even more goodies for the jQuery community, Thanks You all for contributing! In this post I have hand-picked a set of very interesting and brand new plugins that have been released within the last few weeks. Take a look I’m sure you will find something useful!

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Everybody knows the Internet is the environment that we can use for a lot of things. The Internet is getting more and more important, we can use it for working, learning, for entertaining …

Only in the aspect of entertainment, we use the Internet to play online games, to search, listen & download the favorite songs, videos, movies, …

The Internet also is the very good environment for studying, it helps us in looking for the materials, solving our problems, getting the supports from the other persons, … Especially in the field of computers in general, web programming in particular; many people think the programming languages are only for working, there’s no joy in it.

That’s reason why I wrote this post, I just want to say to all: with JavaScript, you can find some little joys; JavaScript can make many funny things that you may not have realized. Here’s list of funniest things JavaScript can do.

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Forms are essential for communication online and they are the single most important interface to collect information from users. Why not spice you forms up a bit and make your site more appealing and user friendly? This post will help you get an idea of what what is possible to acheive with a few lines of simple jQuery code…

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Like most others with a great interest in web front end development jQuery have a special place in my heart. jQuery manages to brings the real goodies to us with only a few lines of code and every day it gets better. This is because the huge jQuery community keeps shipping awesome plugins; great thanks to everyone contributing!. With jQuery it is possible to create user friendly and sophisticated web user interfaces in a lightweight and elegant way. One of the most important aspects of creating good user interfaces is taking care of the user events; like fx. user dragging stuff around on the page. Typically in web development this has not been trivial at all but with jQuery the dark clouds are gone. This post give you 15 jQuery Plugins that will give you the poser to add Drag N’ Drop capabilities to you web front ends.

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jQuery is a great framework for creating interactive and dynamic user interfaces. The availability of plugins targeting nearly any area of web front end development is amazing and really speeds up developers work. This post focus on plugins that provide tool tip functionality and as you will see in a minute there are plenty of good looking and flexible options.

A tooltip is a small box that appears near an object in a graphical user interface (GUI) when a pointer or other cursor controlled by a mouse passes over or rests on that object and which contains a brief text message identifying or explaining the object. This a very useful technique for making your web pages (or really any type of GUI) more intuitive and easier to use, particularly where the purpose of some GUI objects may not be immediately apparent. If used right tool tips can significantly improve usability and reduce the frustration of inexperienced users fx. when providing to them a complex form.

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