About the Author

My name is Jack Born.

I’m a full time entrepreneur, new first time father as of a few months ago, and a web designer to boot… not in order of importance, mind you.

I’m currently tweaking some minor changes suggested by clients of mine for an upcoming CMS that will launch soon.

When I cam across jQuery I really didn’t see the importance of the library at first. I thought “Why do we need another javascript library?”

The answer is yes… jQuery serves a purpose - fills a need that other libraries don’t fill.

For what it accomplishes, it’s very small in size. Think of it as the Swiss Army knife of DOM scripting and AJAX.

It’s not perfect for every job or application, but it’s really handy if you aren’t an advanced javascript coder. Some of the libraries that are popular right now are a little complicated to learn.

You can learn jQuery quickly and put it to use almost immediately. It’s flexible enough to let you tackle a wide variety of complex projects without a lot of effort.

Inspiration

I was inspired by the “24 Ways” site… but for some sick reason felt the need to create most of the tutorials myself.

Alterior Motive

For years I’ve been using my own CMS system for my web design clients. I was frustrated with the existing frameworks for a variety of reasons… many of which you can read about on the CMS Launch website.

I promise you this… I did not wake up one day and decide that I had nothing better to do than to try to create a CMS from scratch when there are hundreds of blog and portal engines available for free.

It really was an act of desperation.

Over the years I kept tweaking it… then came the AJAX phenomenon. I got inspired to remake the admin and afterwards realized I had something that other web designers (and entrepreneurs) might find useful.

Other Products

I also created Ultimate Form Mail for my own use and have been selling it online for over two years. It’s a very secure form processor with all the bells and whistles you could imagine - written in PHP.

Affiliate Programs

I’m putting the finishing touches on an affiliate program for all of my software and services. The commission structure is very generous but I’m also willing to consider a more generous split if you can convince me that you have high influence with a large audience.

Contact me if you are interested in hearing more about the affiliate program.

12 Comments

Ian said on 26 Jun 2006 at 4:24 pm:
Great site! Thanks for all the work you’ve done in publishing these tutorials!
Trevor Pierce said on 8 Sep 2006 at 10:35 am:
Jack:

Thank you for these tutorials. For someone just starting to appreciate JavaScript, AJAX and the DOM, they have been just what I needed.

I’ve got a small problem with the Safer Contact Forms Without CAPTCHAS, however. When I run my contact form through Safari, it gives me the error message that JavaScript is required. Even when it’s turned on. I also ran through the tutorial to make sure I hadn’t made my own coding mistake, but same thing.

I’m testing this on Mac OS 10.3.9, and Safari 1.3.2, it might work properly in Safari 2.0.

I suspect it’s an error or bug in the way Safari is interpreting the DOM, but that’s an educated guess only in name.

If you have any ideas or thoughts, I would greatly appreciate them. Also, please excuse the mess on my personal website in Explorer, I just uploaded last night and need to tweak the Explorer only CSS.

Thank you,

Trevor Pierce
Jack said on 11 Sep 2006 at 9:34 am:
The home page of your site doesn’t give a link to your contact form… at least not one that I can find.
Kniaź said on 20 Oct 2006 at 5:05 am:
The unfolding/changing size effect on main page of “15 days…” doesn’t work in Opera (v9) and is clipped at bottom in Firefox (1.5.0.7) and IE, so that last part of the text is invisible
But besides of that - great page, congratulations.
Jack said on 20 Oct 2006 at 9:19 am:
Kniaz,
Yes, I have been hearing that Opera doesn’t play well with older versions of jQuery. I’m guilty of not updating the jQuery on this site to the most recent version, and testing across multiple browsers — one of those things I know I should do yet don’t even seem to find the time to do it.

That’s not an excuse, just a fact.
Mete Sahin said on 22 Feb 2007 at 9:59 am:
Jack:

Great Tutorial.

I would like to translate this page in Turkish and put it my site.

Will there be any problem about this.

Regards.
Mountain/\Ash said on 13 Mar 2007 at 6:13 pm:
Thanks for the introduction to jQuery. You made the transition so easy.

One thing, can you please change the style on the

<code>

element in your CSS?
ROM said on 4 Jun 2007 at 12:18 pm:
Good tutorial.

Can i translate it to Russian and put on my site flora.org.ru ?
Christtan Michael said on 2 Nov 2007 at 3:49 am:
Hi Jack Born,

I am interested in purchasing in textlink advertising at some specific pages of

http://15daysofjquery.com/

let me know if interested so that we can discuss it further. I can make a good offer to make it worth your time.

Let me know!

Thanks
Christtan Michael
mind21 said on 11 Apr 2008 at 1:34 am:
I like your blog, this post is really good, but please vary your topics, it will broad your readership.
T5 said on 17 Apr 2008 at 8:05 pm:
Jack, please email me, im following up a reference of someone who said they created this site, but I dont see their name in the credits.
Darcie Fulkerson said on 12 Aug 2008 at 12:42 pm:
Hello,

I’m wondering if you might be available for consultation on an hourly basis. I tried implementing your “safer forms without CAPTCHA” solution but I am primarily a web designer, not a programmer. By the way, I loved your disclaimer re: fee downloads - that was quite entertaining to read.

Thanks,
Darcie Fulkerson,
Webeclectic - Custom website design

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