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I know I haven’t been updating this as much as I normally do on a Monday, but then again I haven’t been doing anything I should be the past two days. Yesterday I discovered the power of jQuery, and all I can say is “wow!”. My knowledge of javascript is near nill, I can do some validation or run a simple Ajax script but that’s about all. After checking out JQuery for user name validation, I went to their site to see what else the framework offered.

For those of you who don’t know, jQuery is a javascript framework that takes the massive amount of coding out of selecting and modifying DOM elements on a webpage. On top of that, there is a library of widgits that allow for the closest thing to copy-and-paste javascript, all community supported and a UI that is unrivaled. The widget library is huge, with code snip-its from validation to photo gallery’s. This in itself makes using jQuery a must, theres not need to re-invent the wheel right?

The UI is a story in-and-of itself. With the ability to quickly and easily theme it, and a library of built in functions that are all amazing, adding this to any web page could only make it better. The clean code of implementing these tools is also a plus. If you are a web designer and haven’t checked this out yet, your definitely missing out.

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