Javascript & AJAX
AJAX is one of the newest technologies that are being used on the internet. You
will see this on sites such as Ebay, they are used to give the user of your website
a smoother, quicker and richer experience. AJAX uses a computer language called
Javascript to create controls on the page that your customer would use, however
when clicking on a button or selecting an item they do not have to wait for the
page to reload as the javascript will complete the work on the screen in the same
page.
AJAX is used in many different ways including on a number of pages on this site.
As an example if you have a page of items you were selling, you may want to have
them all on 1 page without have to have the customer scroll down a very long list.
You can therefore use an AJAX element to give the fast, professional and stylish
command to control this, below is an example. If you select the image below then
you see more information about the item.