More about the book... and a request for ideas

 

Intended audience:

people who already have a background in programming, but not in the jQuery library, and not in methods of creating dynamic websites with PHP. It won't cover the HTML/CSS side of it very much, unless I use antiquated/odd tags/labels/styles.

 

Layout of the pages: (not entirely sure about this)

left hand side page will be all method (eg why we do this, what this code does etc)

right hand page will be mostly code, diagrams and so on

 

So heres my request for ideas. I will be writing each section as a task (i want to do this, how do i do it?). I am asking for ideas for this... which specific tasks do you reckon are good to cover.

 

Preferably, entirely client-side, entirely server-side, or ajax tasks?

Interesting...

 

If you are using Ajax & jQuery I would like to see how to create Drag and Drop elements perhaps a Shopping Cart that you can drag your goods into and it automatically updates? What a bout a rating system so you have 5 stars that hover when you roll over them when you click on the rating it updates it with out a page refresh? Another thing I like which I have seen on places my custom google.com homepage and within this forums Blogs area is draggable content blocks so you can design the layout of a page by dragging certain parts.

 

Any of them any good?

well with jQuery there are already plugins which do the D&D and the star rating jobbie, but certainly things worth covering.

 

I haven't tried the draggable blocks around before now, but its definitely worth considering.

 

thanks, keep them coming.

Well WorldPeace has said some good ones already, trying to think in Web Design terms here..How about a stylesheet switcher or perhaps automatically add reflections to images (that glassy look that seems to be popular at the moment). I see where this could be going, how about a tutorial to write a mini CMS/Blog and have Ajax elements like the rating feature, comments that update automatically on the page, draggable sections like calendar or profile etc. You really could do alot of things.

yes, the CMS is a pretty standard one, so it seems an obvious choice.