Jaco’s Random Writings

And… the next post is still in WordPress. Heh. Funny that. And here I thought I would have gotten the theming for my Drupal site done by now. Bummer. Well, I’m reading the documentation on theming over in the Drupal documentation section. Have I mentioned that they have some fantastic documentation? Every aspect of their system is laid out in detail. WordPress should be paying attention to these guys. But progress is being made on the theme, slow but surely.

That said and done, let me talk about jQuery. I’ve known about jQuery for some time now. However, I never got a chance to get my hands dirty working with it… until now. When working on the Drupal theme for my site, I realized that the login area needed to be made more… inconspicuous. I wanted to move it to the top of the screen and have it so that if the user moused over the tab labeled “User Login”, then the login fields would neatly drop down from the top of the page. Drupal comes with jQuery, so I figured I could throw in a few lines of jQuery to make this effect happen. Great excuse to learn it. So I made it happen after reading up on the documentation and I have to say, I like it. The syntax is a little.. yah. But it definitely makes creating animations and effects in Javascript much easier. I’ve done animation in Javascript. It’s not easy. It’s not exactly hard. It’s just… tedious. I tip my hat at the guys working on jQuery, particularly John Resig. And one thing I do like about it is that you can intersperse the jQuery code with regular Javascript. Good stuff.

But that’s currently what I’m doing in my spare time. But the site migration is currently top priority. This needs to happen… soon!