Grabbing the user's attention

OK, sample code snippets aside, it's time to get to work! Back in "hypothetical land", our previous clients have enthusiastically touted our jQuery solutions to a few associates and we now have quite a few requests for help with WordPress sites. Let's walk through a few new hypothetical client situations and see if we can solve their problems.

First up: a common way many sites employ "sticky" posts and how to enhance them with a little jQuery animation.

Project: Animating an alert sticky post

Here's a quick and simple one. You've got a client who has a good friend, who runs a non-profit educational organization's site, and they need a favor (meaning; do this "for free" please).

The organization's after-school care runs on the public school's schedule (as many kids are bussed over from different schools). If the public school system takes a snow day or some other emergency day, the after-school program also closes down. The organization does their best to notify...