Making a jQuery banner from scratch
Woah, hang on a minute... You mean you want me to build my own jQuery solution from scratch!? Why would I do that when there are so many pre-packaged jQuery solutions out there? Good question, if you are only making something very simple, maybe you'd like to optimise the amount of code the browser has to execute, and the pre-packaged solution may have many more features than you need... Ok, I'll admit that's a bit far fetched for me to use as my own excuse. I had some spare time, and wanted to see how easy it was. The answer, as always, is it depends. I was migrating a website from the early 2000's to a SharePoint site and I just wanted to replace a simple flash banner that faded in/out images & animated text. Great little project I thought. Here's how: First I made a simple HTML page with a div for every image and sentence I wanted to fade in and out. and an id against every div, so that I could reference them in the jQuery. <head...