Suppose you look up inspiration in the dictionary. What do you find? It describes inspiration as: ‘stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity’. This is exactly correct when discussing how we are influenced to create something in a world of design. Being stimulated and influenced to a high level is sometimes difficult. The design world is filled with so much “JUNK”. A lot of this ‘junk’ is so readily accepted as normal, that everyone, not just designers, are calloused like the tough end of an elbow as to what they think ‘works’ and what doesn’t. Read the rest of this entry »

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Something big is affecting the way we perform web design. During the popular JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco a new programming language was announced that will threaten Ajax. JavaFX by Sun Microsystems is poised to challenge the hottest programming language Ajax but more importantly other new programming languages by Microsoft and Adobe. This is truly a grudge match between all the major tech companies as each has its own strong language.

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All over the internet I keep hearing about AJAX. So what is it, what can it do and why do we need it. AJAX is a programming language for the web; it uses Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The purpose is to make websites more responsive. It does this by a small set of JavaScript and off page information to reduce the amount of information loaded on each page which can help your web design a lot. So basically you change one thing on the page as opposed to the whole page itself. By doing this speed, interactivity and usability are all greatly improved.

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