This will be the culmination of the four part series on MooTools for non programmers. In this installment we will take all that we learned in the previous parts and put it together to make a flash menu system.

This week we are going to keep moving forward with our look at using MooTools to make our pages have some nice, fancy effects. The last few posts we looked at how easy it is with MooTools to animate different CSS properties. We are going to expand on that this post and for next weeks post all the effects will culminate in a gorgous menu.

In the last MooTools tutorial we saw how easy it is to add event handlers and use the built in effects. This time we will take it a bit further and work with some custom effects. Sometimes the built in effects dont always meet the requirements of a particular site or we want a bit fancier javascipt effect for a particular situation. For these such cases, MooTools makes it super easy to put together a custom effect.

Using MooTools can be a bit daunting for the non-programmer types out there (mainly designers and javascript newbies). I’m going to display a few examples of just how simple MooTools can be. Hopefully this will spark some interest for a few people so that you get motivated to do a bit of learning and see how powerful and usable MooTools can be.