Prior to our spring break, MSCEI held another workshop on Jquery. The topics involved plugins, Jquery UI, and loading external pages. The purpose of the workshop was to show others how to turn a lackluster website into a more interactive and professional experience for the users. The Jquery UI allows developers to easily apply date pickers, dialog boxes, and other essential and very useful elements to a webpage. Dynamically loading external pages can also be useful for displaying dynamic data. It gives you the ability to create a refresh effect with a button or do it every so many seconds with JavaScript's setInterval() method.
With that being said, I'd say the workshop went over very well and it seemed like everyone got something they can take from the workshop.
Here are some resources we used during the workshop:
This one I didn't mention during the workshop, but I think some of you will find it very useful.
45 Fresh Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Tools
If you're interested in coming to another workshop, please let us know in a comment below. As of right now, we are planning on a Jquery and PHP workshop in the coming weeks. Details are not yet thought up, but you'll be notified once it is set.
Any other suggestions or questions on how to develop something you've seen, feel free to ask.
Thank you to everyone who came out.
The files from the workshop can be found here.