Ajaxified: 7 Ways to AJAX up your site!

Posted by David | Filed under Web Design Tips

AJAX is a great way to make your website look even cooler than it already is! It’s not just limited to a funky looking contact form that doesn’t refresh when the user hits submit though! It can do way more! Listed are 7 simple things you can do to snaz up your site with AJAX.

Number 1 - AJAX Tabs.

Using Tabs can make content easier to read for users by spacing things out a bit more, they won’t work on everyone’s websites though. Dynamic Drive

Another way to use tabs is for search bars, such as this tutorial here, why not allow your visitors to search your site in different ways. Woork

Number 2 - AJAX Polls

Polls are a great way to encourage user interaction on your website, guests are way more likely to vote in a poll than actually comment or say anything on a website. It’s also a good way of trying to gauge how big an audience you have on your website, as only people who intended or are interested in your content are likely to vote. W3Schools

Number 3 - AJAX Suggest

This is it in its most simplest form, but even here it could be used to search a list in a more efficient way than having a massive list on a page. W3Schools AJAX Suggest tutorial

A slightly more complex and alternative way of using AJAX for automatically suggesting. This can be used in forms to automatically suggest something to the user. AutoSuggest

Number 4 - AJAX Forms 

The classic contact form is always useful for a webmaster to be contact by his users. NiceForms

Alternatively you can also use them for login forms, saving the user a trip back to the page they were at. FARAWAY

Number 5 - AJAX Menus

OK so this example is perhaps a bit fancier than you may need but its a great way to demonstrate how AJAX can be used in menus. N.Design Studio

Number 6 - AJAX Rating System

A great way to get some user feed back, or integrated into a website to rate images, episodes, films, blog enteries - in fact anything you want. Max’s AJAX Rating

Number 7 - AJAX Calendars

Snazz up your website forms with an AJAX calendar pop-up to help your users choose what date to use, they’re more likely to get the right one when they can visually see a calendar. This example here is designed to be similar to the Windows Vista Calendar. Download at dev.base86. Of course you can just have a calendar integrated into your website, no need to have it have a function in a form.

There are literally hundreds more ways you could use AJAX to funk up your site, I may well mention so more later in the year but for now these 7 will do!

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