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Alright, in my previous post I taked about CodeIgniter which is a powerful open source PHP framework and how much it has helped me up to now in making a website for V.  I think now I’ve done as much as I can now with this framework, at least for my needs at the moment.  Later I plan to optimize my PHP and take better advantage of CodeIgniter however, my skill level is not at that level yet and I don’t want to over kill this site right now.

The next step than was to figure out my navigation methods and what language will best help me to do it.  Fernando, who I also mentioned in my previous post suggested that I use Mootools library.  I was all for it until Vladimir Drizhepolov aka Vovko aka “Voldemort” reminded my of the jquery library.  It didn’t take much thought to realize that jquery is more popular and will likely have more references on the internets to aid me in my programming – it also helped that it is open source and so I can blog about it on PlanetCDOT!

Now, rather than learning SQL and something called Rational Rose (bleh!)  I began writing my javascript to load my pages into my content div’s and animating transitions with Vlad’s assistance.

Here is how it turned out:

V – May 21, 2010 (screen cast)

Here is the code that helped me do it:

myscript (javascript that uses the jquery library)

Adrian.