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Rock Star Website Animations
Websites started out as simple online brochures. Today, websites offer a far more rich user interface that captivates and encourages the interaction of a potential customer. In this session, you will learn how to take an ordinary, static website and add animations to not only make it a more engaging, entertaining experience, but utilize them as visual cues to notify the user of areas that need attention. Animations come in all shapes, sizes, colors and fades. You simply need a little JavaScript sugar mixed in to make your website rock!
TARGET AUDIENCE: Web Developers of All Levels, however, some JavaScript Knowledge is required.
I'll focus on taking a plain simple website and enhancing it with more rich interaction concepts. I will offer a more visual queues on forms by changing the properties to show invalid fields and dynamically choose new fields based on previous input. With Text effects, new data can slide in, while deleted data can explode. Backgrounds will move and fade. You'll see popup divs, toasters, accordians and title panes all with emphasis on empowering the user.
About Bob Byron
Bob Byron works for NeXplore Corporation, a corporation dedicated to radically improve the online experience. He has been using AJAX technology in development of NeXplore's innovative social search engine. A veteran of client and server side development, Bob has an extensive background in the various techniques involved in bringing an application through the entire life cycle to get it to market.
Bob is a current contributer to the Dojo Toolkit. He has been coding in Java since soon after its release in the mid 1990's. In 2006, Bob was the President of the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, preceding that by two years as Vice President. He ran the Java Developer's Group for 5 years bringing bringing the latest techniques and expertise to attendees.
