Course Description

This module focuses on the techniques for adding animations and interactive elements to your website using CSS and JavaScript.

Web animation has become a fundamental part of modern user experience, transforming static pages into dynamic, engaging environments that captivate visitors and enhance usability. Animations help guide user interactions, provide visual feedback, and improve storytelling within a website. Whether it's subtle hover effects, smooth page transitions, or complex motion graphics, well-executed animations significantly enhance the overall appeal and functionality of a web interface.

CSS and JavaScript offer powerful tools for implementing animations, each with its own advantages. CSS animations and transitions allow designers to create visually appealing effects with minimal performance impact. These animations are efficient, requiring less computational power and making them ideal for simple effects such as fading elements, sliding menus, and button transformations. CSS keyframes enable the creation of more complex sequences, making it possible to achieve sophisticated motion without relying on external libraries.

For more advanced and interactive animations, JavaScript provides a higher level of control, enabling real-time updates, user-triggered effects, and dynamic properties that adapt to changing conditions. JavaScript animation libraries such as GSAP, Anime.js, and Three.js allow developers to create intricate motion graphics, physics-based animations, and 3D effects. These libraries offer flexibility in synchronizing animations with user interactions, making them an essential part of interactive web applications.