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jQuery Tip: Resources for Creating Your Own Plugins

With jQuery easily becoming the quickest growing Javascript library on the market right now, it's no wonder the demand for quality tutorials is so high. One of jQuerys great features is the ability for anyone to quickly and easily create a plugin. Today, we will have a look at some extremely helpful resources to get you started with created your own jQuery plugins.

The Definite Guide to Creating a Practical Plugin

First up we have an excellent article by Dan Wellman over at NETTUTS. This article is extremely in depth and aimed towards those who are new to jQuery but have used it before.

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Developing a jQuery plugin via Snook.ca

Anyone who knows me knows that I am stalking Jonathan Snook. OK, maybe not stalking but the guy is a web dev hero. In this article he takes us through the process of getting ready to create your plugin and putting the code into action.

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Building Your First jQuery Plugin

In this plugin tutorial you learn how to create a plugin which truncates text, or in other words, allows you have a a drop down 'read more' effect.

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A Plugin Development Pattern

Learning jQuery brings us an excellent article aimed more towards the development steps and patterns of developing a basic jQuery plugin.

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Learn How to Create a jQuery Plugin

Again, NETTUTS delivers with a quality tutorial on every single step of creating your first jQuery plugin. Be sure to check out jQuery for absolute beginners, a 15 day series by Jeffrey Way on the ThemeForest blog for some excellent tuts.

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