The Wonder of jQuery Tools: New PLUS Tutorial
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The Wonder of jQuery Tools: New Premium Tutorial

on Aug 26th 2009 with 33 comments
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They refer to it as the “missing jQuery UI” library. What’s the key to jQuery Tools? They offer everything you’d actually use in a web application, and nothing more. I’ll show you exactly how to use this incredible jQuery library over the course of a 40-minute video tutorial.

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  • http://www.tutsvalley.com TutsValley

    JQuery Tools is amazing, i used it on few websites for my clients.

  • ryan

    Yes it is!

  • http://chrisberthe.com/ chrisberthe

    Nice tutorial. How’d you get Chrome for mac?

  • Colby963

    the beta is out for developers i believe

  • http://ninjaforge.com Stian Didriksen

    I see you’re using Camtasia for the Mac, very cool to see it in action :)

    • http://net.tutsplus.com Jeffrey Way

      I didn’t get to use much functionality for this one. Just a simple record and talk. :) I’ll do more in the future.

      • http://danharper.me Dan Harper

        We can tell :) This video was much smoother than your others (switching windows, moving the cursor etc.)

  • http://www.bittrack.it/ Raspo

    Did you use Camtasia Studio to record this video?

    • http://net.tutsplus.com Jeffrey Way

      Yep! Camtasia, Mac.

  • Dave

    The envato intro for this video is sick. watched it 3 times

    • http://www.jeff-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Isn’t it? I love our logo sting!

    • http://www.peewee1002.co.uk Peewee1002

      I have to admit I did the same.

      I have worked out how you made it I think.

      Looks like an after effects text fade with some particles.

      Not sure though – give us a clue???

  • Abhin

    Its a good library but has issues with IE…..

  • Johnathan

    Really really nice. Loved it. Hoping to use some of this in a site I’m building for a friend at the minute.

    @Abhin whay IE issues are there? I’m on a Mac so can’t check atm.

    • Abhin

      I had used it for a project got a lot of bugs including png transperancy issues so eventually shifted to jQuery UI.

      • Johnathan

        But the transparency is IE’s problem and can be fixed pretty easily?

    • Abhin

      See tooltip and overlay gave me lot of problems in IE only else library is excellent and PNG fixes leaves a bad looking white border on overlay images and in IE it gives a Square overlay that does not look cool instead there are other options available

      • Johnathan

        Oh, It would be the tooltip I would be using most I think. Well for the site I’m working on at the minute anyway.

  • Khalil-Zarpio

    Hello, Sir Jeffrey Way,

    How are you? I am waiting for your post on blog.themeforest of jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series.

    Thanks

  • http://www.imblog.info Muhammad Adnan

    Downloaded videos should be Zip.

  • chad

    Haven’t watched it yet but I lately I’ve been watching some of the videos on my ipod. However what how do I do that when it’s a plus tut?

  • http://redeyedesigner.com David B

    Wow…it’s taking forever to download.

    This really should be zipped.

    I can’t wait to watch this vid. Jeff you’re awesome dude. I learned all about wordpress thanks to you and your over 7 hour video series :D

  • http://www.freshclickmedia.com Shane

    :o – I hadn’t heard of jQuery TOOLS before.

    Thanks for sharing! :)

  • Steve

    I can’t watch this video while I’m at work, can someone elaborate what this tutorial actually is? Whats jQuery tools?

    • Steve

      nevermind, I finally got on the jQuery tool site.

  • awake

    As far as I’m concerned I’ve not seen the benefit of Tuts Plus for developers or front-end engineers.

    It’s all design stuff, and things like JQuery Tools does not justify a developer signing up for it.

    The content on NetTuts seems to be of more value… Just my 2 cents

  • http://vampa.org Alex Stomp

    why doesn’t your website jeff-way.com work anymore?

    • http://www.jeff-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Working on a redesign for the CI series.

  • http://kshag.com Karo

    Do do the Plus tutorials get released to the public for free after some time goes by or must we sign up for a Plus pass to get access to those videos?

  • LuK

    Both thumbs up for jQueryTools…I use it since it’s out and it rocks heavily…version 1.1 is in beta and it’s fantastic!!!

  • Jaysone

    When i activate rewrite_module (developing locally using wamp) and when i activate permalinks..the overlays and the tabs i integrated don’t work..wonder why?

  • http://www.buildvoy.com general

    Nice tutorial.