Create an Interactive Homepage Marquee with jQuery

Shows how to build a visually rich, interactive marquee with jQuery to aggregate and display content on a web site home page.In this course, author Chris Converse builds a visually rich, interactive marquee to aggregate and display content on a web site home page. This course covers cropping and resizing artwork in Adobe Photoshop, creating HTML and CSS layouts, and dynamically generating marquee elements with the open-source JavaScript framework jQuery. Tutorials on animating between content panels are also included. Topics include: Creating project folders Exporting graphics from Photoshop Downloading and setting up Aptana Studio Creating the HTML and JavaScript files Setting up the Document Ready script Generating the navigation buttons Calculating and animating between photos Setting the caption text Preloading images and initializing the marquee