Applied jQuery: Develop and Design

A definitive guide to building application interfaces using jQuery along with PHP, HTML, and CSS.

* Teaches how to quickly start writing application interfaces using jQuery, PHP, HTML, and CSS.
* This beautifully designed book in the new Develop and Design series offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance.
* Author has tons of practical experience building application interfaces that combine technologies.

Applied jQuery, in Peachpit's new Develop and Design series, teaches readers how to quickly start writing application interfaces. The beautifully designed book offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance. The Author, Jay Blanchard, has practical experience working in the field and wastes no time getting to the instruction, taking the reader from a beginner to a proficient interface programmer by the end of the book. Today's Web developers are are expected to be well versed in many different technologies. While it is good to have a shelf full of books that focus on single technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery), having a book that shows developers how to combine these technologies is key, and that's what gives Applied jQuery: Develop and Design the competitive edge. The book takes the reader beyond the fundamental mechanics of individual languages to illustrate the value and power of combining jQuery and PHP with templates and layouts handled by HTML and CSS. Beginning to intermediate web developers designing and developing web application interfaces and web sites will learn how to blend these ingredient technologies, as well as how to secure jQuery.