Introduction Everyone can design their own jQuery plugins. Once you understand jQuery, you no longer write pure Javascript for DOM; once you know how to write jQuery plugins, you start enjoying reusing jQuery code. By using jQuery plugins, you can focus mainly on the business logic of a webpage. That's the reason why I keep writing a lot of jQuery plugins. Writing jQuery plugins is easy. Everyone who has the basic jQuery knowledge is capable to write jQuery plugins. Tutorials If you don't know how to start a jQuery plugins, here's a list of tutorial for you: Books
Recently, I’ve received a book from Packt. “jQuery 1.4 Plugin Development – Beginner’s Guide” which is an eBook written by Giulio Bai. Having a book for concepts and examples is essential in learning jQuery Plugin. I recommend you reading this book for an in-depth understanding of this subject. The first Chapter of the book is about the introduction on jQuery. Chapter 2, is mainly focus on the basic of writing jQuery plugins. For those who want to have a formal understanding of jQuery plugins should read this chapter carefully. You can find a detailed introduction on the concepts of two diferent types of plugin: function plugins and method plugins. You can following the steps in chapter 3 to try your first jQuery plugin. The example provided is quite easy to follow. If you have specific interested topics, you are recommended to pick some topics in the following chapters of the book. Chapters 4-12 are related to different types of plugins: Image plugins, audio plugins, video plugins, form plugins, menu plugins, navigation plugins, animation plugins, utility plugins, etc. This book save us a lot of time from collecting different type of jQuery plugins. Thus, we can focus on those plugins that we feel interested.
The most valuable materials are always in the later part of a book. So, if you turn the pages to later part, for instance, Chapter 13, you’ll find a top 10 list of jQuery Plugins recommend by the author, Guilio. In this chapter, he had shared the findings and thoughts which he had spent a lot of time and effort before in studying those top jQuery Plugins. And he will tell you what’s the secrets for top 10 jQuery plugins. I recommend people reading this book. And I think this book is especially useful for those who have the basic knowledge of jQuery and wants to have a in-depth understanding of jQuery and jQuery plugins. If you have spare time, you can try the “pop quiz” section provided in the latter part of every chapter. And you’ll find a lot of fun in do the pop quiz, too. Here is the link and cover of the book 
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