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Dojo marketing and increasing the community

The Problem

Recently, a discussion opened up on the Dojo Toolkit Mailing List about the lack of a strong marketing and a small community compared jQuery. Torrey Rice was kind enough to elaborate and hit the nail square on the head when he said:

Showing off the hardcore stuff that’s really cool to us (like data stores and charting) is fine but we have to understand that the vast majority of people don’t care about that stuff.. they want to quickly add effects and do dom manipulation.

I see plenty of blogs posting how to do wowie things with jQuery such as 20 Cool Tricks for jQuery but when I started learning Dojo there weren’t many blogs that touched on the fancy effects of JavaScript. Dojo documentation has improved greatly in the six months I’ve been using it but it would have been a great help to have a list of blog posts I could copy & paste from. Having said that – this is my attempt to get to the ball rolling. Enjoy!

Quick & Easy Dojo Effects

  2. Creating fancy drop-down menus with HTML, CSS, and Dojo.
  3. Creating a fadeOut loader with Dojo.

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4 Responses to “Dojo marketing and increasing the community”

  1. says:
    February 27, 2010 at 10:33 am

    [...] I promised a few blogs (and more to come in the future)  to showcase some of Dojo’s quick & easy wow features. First up, a Twitter-esque login box for Dojo. I assume that you already know the basics about Dojo and have included Dojo somewhere in your project. If not, please check out Dojo Campus and the Dojo Toolkit homepage for getting the basics. [...]

  2. Wojtek Augustynski says:
    February 27, 2010 at 11:09 am

    Nice job!
    Thank you for your wisdom.

  3. Creating fancy drop-down menus with HTML, CSS, and Dojo. | SpiffyJr's Blogaroo says:
    March 2, 2010 at 9:31 am

    [...] Toolkit Mailing List and got a quick response from Peter Higgins (those Dojo guys are awesome). I promised a few blogs (and more to come in the future)  to showcase some of Dojo’s quick & easy wow features. This [...]

  4. Kyle Hayes says:
    March 3, 2010 at 8:08 am

    I completely agree and have thought this since I started using Dojo a year ago. There are so many things that make it a stronger and more powerful toolkit than other popular ones out there, but it’s convincing the jQ users as to why that’s the trick. As you said, they get hitched on the WOW factor. I’m glad to see that you are going to try and improve this from the Dojo side. I’ll be looking forward to your posts.