Before I go into what I want to talk about tonight, I need to first toot my own horn a little. I received an email from one of the editors over at onextrapixel.com, inviting me to be a guest writer. Now who knows what will happen with that, but I am extremely excited and honored that they would ask me. I put a lot of work into The Web Machine, so I am just a little bit proud that they would ask me. I am nervous, but in a good way. Here, I can write how I want because its my blog. There, I just hope I don’t embarrass myself. Wish me luck, and I’ll keep you informed of what happens. Seriously, thanks to onextrapixel.com for asking. You made this blogger/web developer very happy just by doing so.

Now…FORWARD! Onto the meat of the post! I should warn you though, that it is partly a story too.

If you have been paying attention here, and reading my posts, you will notice I implemented an animation on my logo using jQuery. I’m quite proud that I got this to work with so little code. Or, at least that was what I thought. The main goal was to fade in the cogs one at a time in sequential order while moving them a certain distance to the left. Just for a refresher, here is the code again:

var cogs = $('#cog1, #cog2, #cog3, #cog4, #cog5').css({'opacity' : 0});
	i=0;
	leftAmount = 0;
 
	function cogMovement () {
		$(cogs[i++]).animate({
				'left': 63 * leftAmount++,
				'opacity': 1,
				'filter': ''
			}, 800, arguments.callee);
 
	};
	cogMovement();

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