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[BaileyDesign]

Basically, I want to create a website and upload it online, I have no problems about designing it but I have very little experience regarding interactivity, the most i can make is external links, rollovers etc. The site will be a professional, clean portfolio with smooth transitions of rollovers, not that frame 1 and 2 type stuff you get with fireworks and also, when an image or selected link is rolled over, the opacity smoothly, but fastly increases. Furthermore, I've heard a lot about liquid / fluid pages? that they take up a certain percentage of the screen therefore being able to fit monitors with ease? Please, someone who is experienced with anything interactive, get in touch with me or give me some pointers on how things are made and the costs? Thanks.

 

[Ekim]

In regards to animation etc. that is all possible using Javascript and a library such as jQuery.

In regards to liquid/fluid pages read up on responsive design.

 

[BaileyDesign]

Is jquery only form image sliders? Or a whole variety of animation utilitys? Really stuck :| and what are the price estimates for simple things such as smooth image transitions ?

 

[uniQ]

jQuery is just one type of javascript library. And they can do a whole lot more than animations.

As for fluid design take a look at responsive sites instead.

 

[fez]

Is jquery only form image sliders? Or a whole variety of animation utilitys? Really stuck :| and what are the price estimates for simple things such as smooth image transitions ?

Jquery is basically a dom manipulation tool with some ajax bolted on. It allows you to easily write cross browser javascript in a way that makes a lot more sense to most people than traditional javascript.

There are probably millions of jquery plugins out there now. You simply include jquery from the google CDN in a script tag (this is because most people will have a version from google CDN stored locally in their cache so you site will be a little quicker loading) and then include the plugin file. They are usually really simple to use and quite often have good documentation.

Have a look at these few:

fancyapps.com - query lightbox
http://nivo.dev7studios.com/ - jquery slider / transitions


Also, you might want to have a peek at the twitter bootstrap. It a responsive layout (have a fiddle with it on a mobile device or just make your browser really small to see the effect) with lots of additional jquery plugins which might help you get a bit of a handle of how it all fits together.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

 

[BaileyDesign]

Thanks guys, really cleared some things up for me