Introduction
Course Contents
- Getting Started with jQuery UI [25:05 minutes]
- Getting Started with jQuery UI
- An Overview of jQuery
- An Overview of jQuery UI
- Working with jQuery Locally or through a CDN
- Choosing Our Delivery Options in jQuery UI
- Creating Our First Page Using jQuery UI Widgets
- What Tools Am I Using?
- Working with the CSS Framework [21:58 minutes]
- All about CSS
- Adding Our Second Widget
- Switching Styles in jQuery UI
- The Library Minification Functionality
- Optimizing Your Project
- Themes - Under the Hood
- Creating Your Own Themes Using ThemeRoller
- Working with Widgets [27:56 minutes]
- Setting up Expectations
- Creating a Dialog Widget
- Options, Methods, and Events
- Working with Widget Options
- Changing a Dialog's Title
- Discovering the Widget's Methods
- Adding Interactivity with Callbacks
- Adding Interaction [21:24 minutes]
- Setting up Expectations
- Integrating Events into Widgets
- Updating the Site When a Widget is Dropped
- Being More Efficient with Events
- Digging into Event Properties: the ui Property
- Exploring the Event Object
- Cleaning up Our Project
- More about Widgets [27:13 minutes]
- Setting up Expectations
- jQuery UI Tooltip
- jQuery UI Spinner
- jQuery UI Menu
- jQuery UI Slider
- jQuery UI Accordion
- jQuery UI Tabs
- Course Recap [1:53 minutes]
What you will learn from this video course
- Set up a custom jQuery UI library
- Minify your library and make it more efficient
- Get to grips with components and how to skin them quickly
- Use the ThemeRoller to create custom themes in a jiffy
- Understand how events work in jQuery UI
- Hands-on demonstrations with detailed explanations and code
- Drag-and-drop elements using the jQuery UI features
- Work with over 9 key components
Who this video course is for
- If you want to save hundreds of hours on building your own components, this video course is ideal for you.
- This video series will demonstrate how to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for web applications.
- A working knowledge of JavaScript and a familiarity with jQuery would be useful, but are not vital.
Pros
- I have spent just over 2 hours for watching this jQuery UI video series.I have to say this,It's simply awesome.
- The Author has explained the details with step-by-step examples, useful tips, and quick tricks.And most importantly, he has explained the best practices and optimization tips as well.
- Even though I have a prior experience with the jQuery UI,I learnt some UI components which I have never used with my current applications.So I hope now I can use those components with my next app without any problem after this video series.Thanks to the author.
- The most interesting section of this course for me is the way the author has explained about the "Creating Your Own Themes Using Theme Roller".It's really nice.
- The author has provided the source code where it is required for this course.Which is really help when we do our own hands-on practical sessions.
Cons
- The key annoying issue about the downloaded video series is, viewers have to open the each and every clip, roughly around every 5 minutes. It's a really annoying experience. So I would like to suggest putting all as one video clip for the users who will download it.Then users can enjoy the video series without any interruptions.
- It's better if the source code of this course can put on the JsFiddle.Then users can easily change the things and test lively.It'll give a huge value for this video series.I performed a sample for that.It's here Jsfiddle jQuery UI
Errata
- There is a problem in video "video3_4" after the 4.46 to 4.48 minutes... there is nothing in between that time range.
Reference
Conclusion
- I would like to recommend this video course for all the Novice and Intermediate jQuery developers, Who are willing to learn jQuery UI framework.
- I have to assign a special thanks for Packet Publishers, who afforded me this opportunity to review this video course.
- I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this video series and I hope you will feel the same too.
- Thanks for the Author Ben Fhala as well for creating this kind of a video series for the jQuery UI. Keep up the Good work. :)