Wednesday, August 17, 2011

jQuery Animated Graph using jCarousel - Part 3

Let's get down to business, creating the plugin. I'm going to assume that you have at least looked over jQuery's Plugins/Authoring documentation at this point. If you haven't, you should probably stop here and take the time to read it over.

Here's the plugin overview without any of the logic that we will be using:

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

My Daily Reads

Finding websites with decent amounts of new information can sometimes be a very hard thing. I have often found myself in search of someplace new to feed my hunger for more information about technology, movies, cars, etc. Here is a short collection of some of the websites I find myself visiting the most often:

jQuery Animated Graph using jCarousel - Part 2

Last time we took a brief overview what was going to be needed to get the slider up and off the ground. This week, I want to go over the JSON response in more detail and also get some of the styling on the page.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

jQuery Animated Graph using jCarousel - Part 1

This is a brief tutorial on how to use of jCarousel to make an animated horizontal graph.

Let's begin by stating what we are trying to accomplish with this plugin:
  1. Read a JSON data source
  2. Build an image slider using jCarousel
  3. Generate dynamic graphical data base on the JSON data
  4. Animate the data