Today we are going back to basics. jQuery is an amazing tool for web site owners, designers and developers to use for enhancing the user experience (UX) of their site without having to deal much with the differences in the way various browsers work with Javascript. jQuery just works and there are thousands of plugins, widgets, and feature implementations already written, most of which are freely available.

The series of articles I’m recommending here are on Sitepoint and are being written by Earle Castledine. They are excerpted from his book,  jQuery: Novice to Ninja, a very helpful tome for first-time jQuery users. This series of articles, two of which are complete, will take the novice a long way toward being good at implementing progressive enhancement on their web sites.