I first have to admit that I am not familiar with JavaScript even though I have been playing one-man-band for almost 10 years in web page coding.

I still vividly remember I used Microsoft Frontpage’ 98 to code HTML web page the first time. It was a WYSIWYG HTML editor; for an ABC leaner, I actually found it quite fun to play with because everything was so similar to Microsoft Word. I used Frontpage 98 to create a couple of the websites that don’t exist anymore. I then started to put myself on the formal route of learning web programming; FrontPage was also discontinued by Microsoft just three years after I stop using it. FrontPage would create lots of junk code in the web page; yet, it did give me a good start in my personal interest.

And this time, I found another tool to get myself start learning JavaScript — IxEdit.

IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.

IxEdit solves the problem

To implement interactions on a web page, programming with JavaScript is needed. However, it is hard to manage JavaScript for many designers. Therefore, making well-designed web interactions is difficult in general. IxEdit solves this problem. If you have basic knowledge about HTML and CSS, you can create interactions as you like. JavaScript coding is no longer needed.

(Source: http://www.ixedit.com/)

IxEdit will load a user interface with numerous options for you to create effect for the elements on your website WITHOUT a single line of JavaScript coding. Here is the official video clip to show you a demo how to use IxEdit:

In my point of view, just like FrontPage, IxEdit will give me a very good starting point. After deploying the code, I could learn how to work with JQuery + JQuery UI step by step alone with the official documents. Maybe some day I will stop using IxEdit and will make use of JQuery directly, but it’s always not a bad idea to start with something light and graphical.