Learn how to work with the IntroJs library to create useful, step-by-step help and introductions for websites and applications
Overview
- Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
- Quickly look up the features of the IntroJs library
- Create step-by-step help and introductions for websites with minimum programming experience
- Contains many examples of introductions including multi-page introductions
- Learn how to customize and develop the IntroJs library
- Learn how to use IntroJs with other server-side frameworks
In Detail
IntroJs is a JavaScript and CSS3 library, used to create simple step-by-step help pages or introductions for websites and applications to show the users new features or whole application parts quickly and concisely. Instant IntroJs is a reference to get started with IntroJs right away.
Instant IntroJs teaches you how to work with key IntroJs methods and events to create awesome step-by-step introductions. This book contains numerous examples of introductions and help pages with detailed explanations. It also shows you how to customize the library with your preferred stylesheet or integrate it with other server-side frameworks.
Instant IntroJs teaches you how to work with the IntroJs API, methods, and events to create step-by-step introductions for websites and applications.
This book will give you the knowledge to make the preferred changes to IntroJs in order to build a customized introduction. Instant IntroJs provides many examples of introductions and helps you with using HTML attributes and JSON configurations, as well as some descriptions about how to use and integrate IntroJs with other server-side libraries, such as Ruby on Rails and PHP Yii. You will be provided with information about the latest features of IntroJs that include multi-page introductions, creating introductions using JSON configuration and HTML attributes, methods to change or customize the library, and more.
Instant IntroJs provides full and detailed examples of step-by-step introductions to help you easily learn and use the latest version of the IntroJs library.
What you will learn from this book
- Create step-by-step introductions for websites and applications
- Use HTML attributes and JSON configuration to create introductions
- Explore the main IntroJs functions and events
- Integrate IntroJs with other server-side libraries such as Ruby on Rails and PHP Yii
- Develop and customize the library to create custom introductions
- Produce many types of introductions including multi-page introduction
- Get to grips with the localization and use of the RTL version of IntroJs
Approach
Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A simple starter that will guide you through IntroJs from scratch to advanced topics using a simple step by step approach with useful examples along the way.
Who this book is written for
This book is for web designers who want to create an interactive step-by-step introduction for showing specific or all parts of an application or website to users. Basic JavaScript programming and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of any other JavaScript libraries is needed.
Ehsan Arasteh currently works as CTO and software architect at Yaraholding, a Tehran-based interactive agency and web development company. He has 9 years' experience in development with several languages such as ASP.NET, C#, Java, PHP, and Python, including banking projects, and professional web applications. He also is the CEO of Usablica, a company that makes open source applications such as IntroJs and Magnet.He started teaching C and C++ to high school students at the age of 14. He grew up with programming and started his professional life with his first official project when he was 16 and it was his starting point in the official programming community. Since that time he has been involved in a lot of projects as developer, analyzer, consultant, architect, and project manager, and also came back to academia as an instructor in a game development institute, but he says that “nothing is replaceable with coding”.
Afshin Mehrabani is a 21 year old software engineer and open-source programmer. He is a computer software engineering student. He started programming and web development when he was 12 years old by starting with PHP. Later, he entered the Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization. He received the 1st place gold medal of this competition for the whole country in web development and also he became a member of the Iran National Foundation of Elite by producing a variety of new programming ideas.He was a software engineer of the Tehran Stock Exchange and now heads the web development team at Yara.. He co-founded the Usablica team in early 2012 to develop and produce usable applications. Afshin is the author of IntroJs, WideArea, flood.js, and some other open source projects. He also contributes to Socket.IO, Engine.IO, and some other open source projects. His interests lie in creating and contributing to open source applications, writing programming articles, and challenging himself with new programming technologies.He has already written different articles about JavaScript, NodeJs, HTML5, and MongoDB, which are published on different academic websites. Afshin has 5 years' experience with PHP, Python, C#, JavaScript, HTML5, and NodeJs in many financial and stock trading projects.
