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;...

Learning how to build websites can be daunting at first. but with the amount of information on the web, it’s very easy to gradiently approach the subject and become a good website builder. I started a couple of years ago and I can now put together websites with ease. If you want to learn to build websites then this is for you. This article is not for you if you only want to learn to build websites using visual based website builders and/or content management systems. I will be doing a separate tutorial on how to build websites that way. Realize that both ways can be used correctly and have their rightful uses depending on the goal for your website. I will not be telling you how to build websites by myself — instead I will be telling you where I learned to build websites. I will give you links to the right places to learn, and all free. The first and best place to start learning about websites is W3 Schools. W3 Schools has all free tutorials on all of the subjects you need to...