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Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues

Almost every movie has a scene in which a character pull the protagonist aside and says, “There’s something you should know about [insert another character's name here].” Most of the time, we find out some dark secret about a supposed friend of the protagonist or that the main ally is actually an evil overlord. This is that moment, and I am here to tell you a few things about our friend in the Web 2.0 world: AJAX.

We seem to have AJAX licked. The Web technology is ubiquitous, and libraries and frameworks make it dead easy for us to create highly interactive Web applications and to spice up our static pages and blogs.

Guess Who's Been Working on Version 1.6?

If you have the impression that more people are helping out with version 1.6, then you are correct. I just did a quick look through the CHANGELOG file for the past month and I found 22 names of contributors. Here they are:

Amy Stephen, Andrea Tarr, Andrew Eddie, Angie Radtke, Arlen Walker, Christophe Demko, Christopher Garvis, Dejan Acman, Elin Waring, Hannes Papenberg, James Kennard, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jeff Channell, Jeff Fendley, Jonnathan S. Lima, Louis Landry, Mark Dexter, Nabyl Sadki, Omar Ramos, Robert Deutz, Ron Severdia, and Sam Moffatt.

My apologies if I missed someone. We have been trying to lower the barriers and encourage more people to join in the fun, and it seems to be working. If you would like to help out, there is plenty to do. Please join us on the Joomla CMS Development list to find out where you can best help out. Thanks!

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A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal

A couple of months ago we posted an article showcasing great website navigations. Consider this the sequel.

The navigation of a website is meant to be clicked. It doesn’t need to blend in or be hard to find. It’s important that it stands out from the rest of the elements on the page, but yet still matches the overall style of the design. Here is a showcase of websites that achieve this in a very stylish way. These navs look amazing, have serious click appeal, and are guaranteed to inspire you.

Clicking on the images will take you to each site.