Create an Interactive Homepage Marquee with jQuery and Dreamweaver

Shows how to build a visually rich, interactive marquee in order to aggregate and display content on a web site homepage.Discover how to build a visually rich, interactive marquee in order to aggregate and display content on a web site homepage. Author Chris Converse shows how to prepare the artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator, create HTML and CSS layouts, and dynamically generate marquee elements with the open-source JavaScript framework jQuery. Tutorials on animating between content panels are also included. Topics include: Linking the HTML and CSS layouts Preparing images with the Slice tool and Smart Objects Adding CSS rules for the captions and navigation Producing the photo lineup Creating the navigation links based on the HTML Setting click events for the navigation Animating between photos Initializing the gallery on page load