Description
I was not a complete beginner when I began this series as I already had a good grasp on downloading and beginning to work with jQuery so I will not go in to great detail on this subject.
If you require further help than is provided below, I strongly recommend checking out Jeffrey's screencast here.
However, for a brief summation, you can download the library from the jquery site. From there, you will be linked to a google code page where you actually download the framework. You can choose to download a minified version or an uncompressed version (I recommend the minified version for a faster load time). After downloading the framework code, I usually create a folder in my project called "js" where I keep all of my javascript files for a particular project. So, my folder structure would look something like this: Project Folder > js > jquery.min.js.
You then need to link to this file in your index.htm file like so:
<script src="js/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
You simply open a script tag, designate the path (src) to the javascript file from your index.htm file (so in my case, you have to go into the js folder, then call the file, therefore: src="js/jquery.min.js"), then designate the type as javascript. You are now ready to start writing some jQuery!
