Seen that? - Light up your site with Lightbox

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Light up your site with Lightbox Web 2.0

The eye-candy that we generally refer to as AJAX is now in our reach : lightbox is here. The effect of an image that opens floating over the current page is clear and simple beauty. As a webhoster and hobbyprogrammer I was eager to be able to use this kind of eye-candy for myself. I found it in Lightbox. Lightbox is very easy to use : sourcing some scripts and [...] Read More


Sampa : Ajax your site Web 2.0

Sampa offers a free website with pictures and a weblog built in. The interface is nice : clean and Ajax-style. The standard layout of the site you get after signing up is pretty nice to see, and a lot of effort has been put in to making the site complete : Syndication is already setup for you. If you'd like to testdrive it you can choose the demo plan which [...] Read More


Code Beauty : Thickbox Web 2.0

Last year I wrote this piece on the use of lightbox javascript for websites. Lightbox is a beautiful piece of code that makes your images open in overlays instead of a blank page. The code is so wellmade, you only have to add it to the headers of your website in order to load and you can immediately start using it. Thickbox is another piecs of beautiful code I just [...] Read More


Would AJAX Lead to Page View Demise? The Search Engine Weblog

Edelman public relations professional and celebrated blogger Steve Rubel said that AJAX, the technology behind the Web 2.0, will lead to the demise of the page view as a metric for Web site success. Is it really possible? At the recently held AJAXWorld conference in New York, Rubel admitted that he doesn't have the magic sauce for accurately predicting what will replace the page view, however; he got some good [...] Read More


Google Site out but Ajax use doesn't impress industry Java Entrepreneur

Google Site is out but it has failed to impress the industry which is not happy with the manner in which Ajax has been used by google coupled with their promise of offering a simpler way of creating websites. As per the company creating website would be as easy as editing documents and you would not even require any external help. Here is what Google has to say about their [...] Read More