I think the putting the sizzle in is not a problem for jQuery. The real problem is much more basic and the one we are faced designing an site.
What do we want to say? What is the material we have to offer? How do we want to organize it and present it? What is the story board of the work flow for the site? etc. Build the site, then unobtrusively add sizzle! One approach would be to look at other javascript library sites and see if there is something we like, or other sites for that matter. We should think about how to design a site that is extensible because jQuery is rapidly evolving. I think long term it would be a good idea to get some champions to start work on doing something like this. I'm also involved with the UMN Mapserver project and they have just reworked their site into a CMS, but it is a full-time(?) job to keep the site updated, not to mention that time it took to build originally. Check it out at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ Using the design concepts of this site might go a long way to mapping the information that we need to present. We could build a "sizzle only" site, but I am a big believer in eating ones own dog food. So building a site and unobtrusively adding sizzle does few things for us. One is it gives us a good site, another is that it should the "right" way to use jQuery, it gives us a real production site for testing jQuery in. Well we might want to do the testing in a staging clone of the site, but you get the idea. Anyway, all good ideas, boil down to someone has to do a lot of hard work! But load share is a about what community is about. -Steve Dragan Krstic wrote: > Can we make biz-wang-ultra-boom-bang-crash site, for jQuery, with tones of > "cool" features, animations, etc... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rey Bango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "jQuery Discussion." <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: [jQuery] New way of animating > > >> Hey Karl! Yep, your site is invaluable. You really do have some great >> tutorials on there and I think expanding it out via your submissions and >> those from anyone else is an awesome idea. >> >> Rey... >> >> Karl Swedberg wrote: >>> On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Rey Bango wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Paul, >>>> >>>> This is the type of stuff that I think would be SSSSOOO helpful in a >>>> tutorial or demo page. Like a best practices type of thing. I recently >>>> spent a lot of time talking to John about how to get the project more >>>> exposure and one of the things we threw out was getting more >>>> examples of >>>> coding practices on the site. >>>> >>>> Would you mind terribly jotting down some of these examples? I think >>>> they'd really help new users transition to jQuery. >>> >>> Please forgive the self-promotion, but these are the kinds of thing >>> I'm also trying to do on learningjquery.com, and I (again) warmly >>> welcome anyone who would like to author one or more tutorials for it >>> or offer suggestions. >>> >>> Of course, adding more of this to the official jquery.com site would >>> be great, too. Still, IMO the more jQuery love out there, the better. >>> Third-party sites such as Cody Lindley's jQuery examples page and 15 >>> Days of jQuery did as much as anything to get me hooked on jQuery. >>> >>> I'm currently working on these topics (in roughly this order): >>> - How to Get Anything You Want (DOM Traversing) >>> - Multi-Level Drop-Down Menus >>> - jQuery Chaining >>> - Basic Ajax Form Submission >>> - Create a Basic Plugin >>> - Collapsible Details Using Definition Lists >>> >>> and Brandon Aaron has been working on Populating a Select Menu with >>> JSON and AJAX. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Karl >>> ___________________ >>> Karl Swedberg >>> www.englishrules.com >>> www.learningjquery.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> jQuery mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://jquery.com/discuss/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> jQuery mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
