AJAX 101 - A beginners guide to how AJAX really works!

Web applications are fun to build. They are like the fancy sportscar of Web sites. But most Web applications are slow and tedious. Even the fastest of them has lots of free time for your customers to go get a coffee, work on their dog training, or (worst of all) head off to a faster Web site. It's that dreaded hourglass! You click a link and the hourglass appears as the Web application consults the server and the server thinks about what it's going to send back to you.

Web design: CSS versus Table

The latest trend in web design is the move from table based web designs to sites purely written in CSS. The purists will tell you that CSS based web sites arent compatible with all browsers and that the site takes longer to construct. This article sets out to compare pure CSS designed web sites against tabularised web sites.

The significant purpose of your sitemap in the world wide web

First, what is a sitemap? A sitemap is a simple list of the URL's that allow your visitors to navigate through your website and enables Google to easily trace and acknowledge the full breadth of your webpage and sub-pages (nodes). URL is short for Uniform Resource Locator. It is a set of codes surrounding a URN (Uniform Resource Name--the name of the website you want to visit) causing search engines to look for that address, then take you there. A URN is like the address on a letter, while the URL is the postal system from beginning to end that delivers the letter to your address, even if it is just next door. A sitemap lists these URL's, linking your pages together in an unbroken chain so that Search Engines can easily list all of the pages associated with your website, a process known as "indexing".

Understanding the 5 Basic Elements of an Effective Web Designs

The elements of design are the building blocks of design. These elements are what make up every page you build. And understanding the basic elements you'll be able to put together more powerful Web pages.