Had a coffee this morning with an expo partner, my mate from Brother, the printer guys. So all in all the expo is off to a really good start.
Why oh why would you come to a large business expo to look for a job? First client of the day was one holding a resume' in his hands. All is not lost, however I do wonder how many of these leads will actually convert into sales and then how many of those sales actually put the money in the bank.
So I started at 8pm and here I am all set up and ready to go. I believe in not planning for your business future as it puts the blinkers on and forces you into a one track business mind. However, planning events is awesome. Im writing tis blog and tinking about getting a tea while watching everyone scamble around like ants trying to get their shit together.
All in all its a pretty god turn out with a variety of business people bringing skills from financial management, marketing skills and even a few wannabe famous CRM groups.
So by now you all know what AJAX is about and how it works. This article isn't going to blab on about the technical side of AJAX or show you graphs on how it works.
What I'm going to is show you how exactly you can implement AJAX on your website or web-based appliaction using a simple javascript library called jQuery. What we want to create is a link on your page that ends a request to get data from a file and then returns that data inside a DOM element on your page. Let's get started.
First of all you need to download the jQuery library and stick it in the eader of your website / application.
Next we want to make a common javascript file that you can also put in the header. For my applications I call this file init.js but you can call it anything you want. Make sure the .js file is included below the jQuery sauce file.
Here is the first piss of javascript that you can put in this file.
Remember those blue funny people that lived in hollowed mushrooms? Recently, I was reading a Smurf book to my daughter and at the end of the book I thought it put in a beautiful way how we should design products for our clients and ultimately run our business.
It starts off as Smurfette, the lady Smurf, coming to town wanting to get married to the one Smurf who would bring her the moon and it reminded me of how some businesses tackle complex problems.
I have now seen too many websites around the net to ignore the growing problem. There are still designers out there creating menu's from multiple images placed inside table cells. As apart of the cleaning up the net project I would like to share with all designers how to build a clean, simple and stylish menu system that uses less resources you are currently using now.
In this article I will show you HTML and CSS example's of how to build your menu and examples of existing menu's from great websites that you can easily achieve too.
Above is the new Birch Carroll & Coyle website. 80% of the website is made of flash including the menu. This is a problem when I want to look up movie times on my iPhone as I can't see the menu at all.