A simple web design blog
jQuery is a javascript framework that makes it easy to edit markup and styles on a page, build advanced user interfaces, and update data sources with AJAX. Today, we’ll go over the first steps and the one major benefit of using jQuery: selecting and manipulating markup and CSS.
Lately, I’ve had a tendency to make fun of the mainstream applications people use to develop websites, asserting my nerd supremacy my touting my love for superior applications. Nothing good comes out of applications like Dreamweaver and FrontPage, I say, except for buggy and ugly websites. I would post snide little comments on Reddit, making fun of bad design and telling people to use Textmate. Then, a more elite nerd than I came along and ruined it for me by suggesting I wasn’t good enough because I didn’t use Emacs.
