8. Creating Captivating Effects

There may be nothing more exciting than easily adding animations to your websites and web applications. Whether subtle or bold, well-done animations can be attention-grabbing and add a wow factor that will keep your website visitors coming back time and time again.

The jQuery library provides a number of animation and effects methods that allow you to fade and move elements at will. Adding the jQuery UI library will also allow you to transition between colors and even classes. To complete the effects library you can use the jQuery easing plugin, which allows you to control the animation speed at different points ...

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