I just stumbled on this great website which has very useful and simple jquery ajax applications. I will review each here in a simple way so you can see all of the useful information. This website shows a video tutorial, a text tutorial and a demo for each of the ajax applications. Please keep in mind that you should use these design elements sparingly and tastefully. Using too many effects in your webdesign can be tacky and detract from the overall design. To begin, here is the website: http://jqueryfordesigners.com/ Ajax image carousel This creates an endless carousel with an html list. It also displays a very smooth scrolling effect. This is very simple to set up and uses jquery. Here is an image showing the carousel. View the code and tutorial here. Ajax smooth slidedown This shows you how to make a smooth div slidedown effect without the initial jump. This can be used for many cool ajax effects. View the code and tutorial here. Ajax smooth data changer This creates a panel that...

With the new Web look spreading through every site new and old, there are a lot of times when you want to use absolutely positioned pngs on your site. The 2 problems we face. The first one is that the PNG format is not fully supported on all browsers that are in use today. The way we handle that is with a simple include into the main template file of your site. Here is where you can get the javascript file click here. Include this file into the header of your main template file: <!--[if lt IE 7]> <script type="text/javascript" src="/resources/unitpngfix/unitpngfix.js"></script> <![endif]--> This is a hack to tell the browser to include the”unitpngfix.js” file if the browser is IE 7 or below. The next problem is that IE positions things differently. We will be using a similar hack to go around this problem. Here is how the code will look. <!-- Floating image --> <!--[if lt IE 7]> <div style="position:relative; margin-left:-800px;...