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Free, an interview with Jesse James Garrett, the man behind AJAX

DMXzone.com held a special interview with Jesse James Garrett the man behind AJAX. Jesse James thought of the term AJAX  to describe a technological approach that seemed promising without having an idea how popular it would ultimately become.

In the interview we we learn more about Jesse, his company and his thought on usability, AJAX and related technologies. Jesse explains how he thinks developers should use AJAX and he gives his view on how to prevent usability mistakes.

Read on for an extract of the interview, you can read the complete interview in the October 2006 e-Magazine.

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JavaScript Articles on DMXzone

Looking for a client-side code snippet, searching for a little bit of dynamism, can't quite put your finger on that piece of JavaScript?

Well try this brief summary of JavaScript articles in the DMXzone premium content area. There might be something that fits your bill.

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FREE! An Email Newsletter Using ASP Smart Mailer and Advanced HTML Editor

So your web presence is coming along a treat. The site looks nice, the functionality is running smoothly and the visitor numbers are rising. But to build that community spirit a newsletter is needed.

 

Well if you're in that situation, take a look at Matt Machell's latest tutorial where he describes how you can use Dreamweaver MX 2004 along with the DMXZone ASP Smart Mailer and Advanced HTML Editor extensions to produce a straightforward mailing list and newsletter application.

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FREE! Building A File Upload and Rating Application

Following on from his free tutorial on building a Content Management System with Server Behaviours and the Advanced HTML Editor, Matt shows how build a site that allows users to upload their own files, and rate those files. There's also a password-protected moderator's area so that you can be sure that all files can be checked before being made "live".

This free tutorial is suitable for beginners and uses only built-in Dreamweaver server behaviors and the DMXzone Pure ASP/  ASP.NET Upload Extensions! The uploading element is also PHP compatible, but the "rating" system doesn't work with PHP since it has no Command behavior to do the rating with.

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Free: Using Advanced HTML Editor to Create a Content Management System

In this free, 20 page tutorial, Matt Machell shows you how to use Dreamweaver server behaviours and the DMXzone Advanced HTML Editor extension to build a password-protected Content Management Solution for a web site, that allows normal users to read news or text or whatever you choose to put on your site, while users with the correct password can add or amend the text using an intuitive word processor-like administration system - so your clients can maintain their own web sites without having to know HTML and without risking breaking the look and feel of the site!

Because Matt's using the extension and built-in server behaviours, there's no handcoding involved, so matt shows you how to use it using both ASP and PHP.

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Speed Up Your Site – Using HTTP Compression!

George Petrov, founder of DMXzone, Flashfreaks and the Dynamic Zones network assesses httpZip, a production utility that compresses the files sent to a browser, saving bandwidth and money!

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