title: jQuery for Designers: Beginners Guide
author:  Natalie MacLees 
description: <b>Natalie MacLees</b><br /> Natalie MacLees is a front-end web developer and UI designer. She spends her days on the product team at Geni.com, a Los Angeles-based start-up that is crowdsourcing the creation of a single family tree of the world. Together with Noel Saw she heads up the Southern California WordPress User's Group, organizing WordPress meetups, help sessions, and workshops. She is also the founder of the jQuery LA meetup group. In 2010, she worked as technical reviewer on WordPress 3 Complete by April Hodge Silver and is currently writing jQuery for Designers for Packt Publishing. She makes her online home at nataliemac.com.
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  About the Tutorial 
  jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript library created by John Resig in 2006. jQuery 
  simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for 
  Rapid Web Development. 
  Audience 
  This tutorial is designed for software programmers who wants to learn the basics of jQuery 
  and its programming concepts in simple and easy ways. This tutorial will give you enough 
  understanding on components of jQuery with suitable examples. 
  Prerequisites 
  Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, 
  JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM) and any text editor. As we are going to develop 
  web based application using jQuery, it will be good if you have understanding on how 
  internet and web based applications work 
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