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Brent Ashley explains what Ajax is

AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JAvascript XML. Ok, now that I’ve told you that, forget you ever heard it. Ajax (proper case) has already come to represent a wider concept. The concept is this: Load up and render a webpage, then remain at that page while scripted routines make background trips to the server for data that is used to update the page in place by re-rendering and or hiding/unhiding portions of the page.

Just submitted an article with 10 tips for speeding up webpages to Cyberwurx:

This is an impatient net society as netizens crave more bandwidth. It seems logical to think that the hosting company are the primary people to contact when pages load slowly, but there are actually a lot of things that we, as webmasters, can do first and foremost to make sure that our web pages load faster before contacting the hosting company. Sometimes very small changes we make with our habits as webmasters can make huge impacts in the speed of which our web pages load particularly in the content of the pages, the compression and third party programs being accessed/used. Today I’m going to detail some specific items below that will help speed up web pages…

Everything from writing your own HTML, optimizing images all the way to the more advanced concepts of employing caching is discussed.

Happy coding to you!