Ajax Development

What is Ajax?

Some say that Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. However, according to Jesse James Garret, the guy who coined the phrase, Ajax wasn’t meant to be an acronym and it was only coincidental that those technologies play an integral part in developing with Ajax.

The main purpose of Ajax is to communicate with the Web server without you really being aware it’s happening in order to create Web pages that are more responsive to your requests. Overall, Ajax will just make the user experience a bit more seamless and in some cases just plain cool because developing with it gives flexibility to those Web pages that want to change some of the data or content but without reloading. Ajax is basically a mixture of server technologies like XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Java Script and the DOM. You might think Ajax is a new web development technology for developing interactive web applications, but it’s not. Ajax has been around for years and was actually called remote scripting way before the buzzword Ajax came to fruition back in February of 2005. But, since we all are familiar with the word we can run with it.

  • You need reasons?

  • Some of the truly substantial benefits of using Ajax:
    • Time saving for both the browser and server
    • Saves bandwidth and server overheads
    • Better usability for your end users
    • Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform compatibility
    • Gracefully degrades on legacy browsers
    • Plays very well with PHP and other server side technologies
    • Can be used in conjunction with a server side technology for double data validation to help ensure proper user inputs for a cleaner database
    • In some cases it just looks freaking awesome

We’ve got you covered

At Valen Designs, we beat this beast into submission. We can develop whatever solution you need for your latest and greatest. Integrating this set of Web technologies is a relatively easy process for seasoned professionals. So you can trust that your new Ajax application will be a lot like a rockstar - it’s sexy, easy and travels by jet.

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